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Re: Importing Twitter Follower Counts into Google Spreadsheet
sfoskett Jan 22, 2012 12:44 PM
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I figured out a way to do it. mobile.twitter.com is still somewhat parseable with ImportXML. I put an example on my web page:

Basically, this should get you started:
=importXML("http://mobile.twitter.com/"&A1,"//a[@ href='http://mobile.twitter.com/"&lower(A1)&"/followers']")