# X (Twitter) Follower list API (twitter.followers_list)

- Canonical page: https://everyinfra.com/en/twitter-api/followers_list
- Endpoint: POST https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/social with {"platform": "twitter", "action": "followers_list", "params": {...}}
- Price: $0.000556 per call ($0.56 per 1,000 requests); failed calls and empty results are not charged
- Returns: list, default 200, max 2000 per call
- Mode: sync; add "mode": "async" for slow tasks

X (Twitter) Follower list returns the accounts that follow one X account, given its `username`. Each row is one follower: the handle, the display name in `name`, the profile link, `location` passed through as written, that follower's own follower, following and post counts, verification, whether the account is protected, and when it was created. Social media managers, audience researchers and brand teams use it to see who an account's audience is: profiling the followers of a brand or creator, spotting influential followers worth engaging, or comparing the audiences of two accounts.

Pass the handle, with or without the @, and never the full profile link. Every count on a row belongs to the follower on that row, not to the account you asked about. The list holds the followers X makes visible, which may not be every follower, so read it as a view of the audience rather than a full census. `created_at` helps you flag clusters of newly created accounts when you audit an audience.

## Health

- Live health (24h percent, hourly and daily trends): https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/social/availability?platform=twitter&action=followers_list

## Parameters

| name | type | required | default | description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| username | not declared | yes | not declared | X username, optionally prefixed with @, without entering a full profile URL. profile compiles data from author details within recent posts; followers_list and following_list retrieve visible followers and following accounts respectively. |
| limit | integer (1–2000) | no | 200 | The most rows to return in this call, an integer from 1 to 2000. The default applies when you leave it out, and a call can return fewer rows. Larger values return 422 before any charge. |

## Response fields (items in `results`)

| field | meaning |
|---|---|
| id | The record's unique ID on the platform. Unique only within one platform; IDs can repeat across platforms. |
| username | Username (@handle). |
| url | Link to the record on the platform. |
| name | Name of the object itself, for account, product and business capabilities. |
| text | Body text with HTML removed, returned in full and never cut short (on a few platforms the list results themselves carry only an excerpt; the platform's field notes say so). |
| location | Location description passed through as is; the format varies by platform. |
| avatar_url | Avatar image link. Some platforms return sized CDN links that can expire. |
| follower_count | Followers. null means not disclosed, not 0. |
| following_count | Accounts followed. null means not disclosed, not 0. |
| post_count | Total posts. null means not disclosed, not 0. |
| is_verified | Whether the platform verified the account. null means it cannot be determined. |
| is_protected | platform-native meaning |
| created_at | Creation time, same format as posted_at. |
| platform | Source platform identifier, the same as platform in the request (for example xiaohongshu, tiktok). |

## Example

```bash
curl -X POST 'https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/social' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $EVERYINFRA_API_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{
  "platform": "twitter",
  "action": "followers_list",
  "params": {
    "username": "nasa"
  }
}'
```

```python
import os
import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/social",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['EVERYINFRA_API_KEY']}"},
    json={
        "platform": "twitter",
        "action": "followers_list",
        "params": {
            "username": "nasa",
        },
    },
    timeout=120,
)
print(response.status_code)
print(response.json())
```

## Response example

Real response to the example request above, captured 2026-09-26T08:56:04Z. `results` and `count` are real with personal information (names, handles, avatars, profile links, contact details) removed; the list keeps the first 2 of 200. `id`, `billing` and `quota` differ on every call, so only their shape is shown.

```text
{
  "id": "req_…",
  "platform": "twitter",
  "action": "followers_list",
  "results": [
    {
      "id": "•••",
      "username": "•••",
      "url": "https://x.com/•••",
      "name": "•••",
      "text": "",
      "avatar_url": "https://pbs.twimg.com/•••",
      "follower_count": 0,
      "following_count": 6,
      "post_count": 0,
      "is_verified": false,
      "is_protected": false,
      "created_at": "Tue Aug 25 06:17:15 +0000 2026",
      "platform": "twitter"
    },
    {
      "id": "•••",
      "username": "•••",
      "url": "https://x.com/•••",
      "name": "•••",
      "text": "",
      "avatar_url": "https://abs.twimg.com/•••",
      "follower_count": 0,
      "following_count": 25,
      "post_count": 0,
      "is_verified": false,
      "is_protected": false,
      "created_at": "Sat Sep 26 10:42:56 +0000 2026",
      "platform": "twitter"
    }
  ],
  "count": 200,
  "billing": {
    "charged": …,
    "charged_usd": …,
    "balance_after_usd": …,
    …
  },
  "quota": { … }
}
```

## FAQ

### How do I get the followers list of an X (Twitter) account?

Send the account's handle as `username`, for example nasa or @nasa, and do not pass the full x.com profile link. Each row then describes one follower with `username`, `name`, `url` and `location`, and `id` is that follower's unique ID on X, the key to store when you compare lists taken on different days.

### Whose numbers are `follower_count` and `post_count` on each row?

They belong to the follower on that row, not to the account you looked up. Sort by `follower_count` to find the most-followed people in an audience, and treat null as undisclosed rather than zero. For the looked-up account's own totals, call the X (Twitter) Details capability with the same handle.

### How do I get the list of accounts someone follows?

Use the X (Twitter) Following list capability. It takes the same `username` and returns rows with the same fields, one per followed account. Reading both lists for one account shows its mutual connections: the handles that appear in both.

## Also

- Capability catalog (no key): https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/social/catalog?platform=twitter
- OpenAPI: https://everyinfra.com/openapi.json · Agents guide: https://everyinfra.com/agents.md