Fetch followers list
Retrieve follower accounts for a user with the same profile metadata shape as the following endpoint.
POST
/followers Network https://api.fetchlayer.dev/twitter/followers Headers
Authorization string required Bearer token — your FetchLayer API key.
Parameters
handle string required Twitter handle without @.
count number optional Number of accounts (max 100). (default: 25)
cursor string optional Pagination cursor.
Response Fields
followers
Fetch followers list
users[].handle string User handle.
users[].displayName string Display name.
users[].description string Bio text.
users[].isVerified boolean Verification status.
users[].followersCount number Follower count.
users[].avatarUrl string Profile image URL.
cursor string Pagination cursor.
Request
curl -X POST "https://api.fetchlayer.dev/twitter/followers" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer ss-your-key" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"handle":"sama","count":2}'Response
{
"users": [
{
"handle": "karpathy",
"displayName": "Andrej Karpathy",
"description": "Building @EurekaLabsAI. Previously: Director of AI @Tesla, founding team @OpenAI, CS PhD @Stanford.",
"isVerified": true,
"followersCount": 1100000,
"avatarUrl": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/karpathy_normal.jpg"
},
{
"handle": "ylecun",
"displayName": "Yann LeCun",
"description": "Professor at NYU. Chief AI Scientist at Meta. Turing Award. Researcher in AI, Machine Learning, Robotics, etc.",
"isVerified": true,
"followersCount": 850000,
"avatarUrl": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/ylecun_normal.jpg"
}
],
"cursor": "DAABCgABF8zK9v__-Z3"
}