PHP get twitter follower count

$url = "http://twitter.com/users/show/hiox";
$response = file_get_contents ( $url );
$t_profile = new SimpleXMLElement ( $response );
$count = $t_profile->followers_count;

echo "Hiox Twitter Followers : ".$count;

// Output
Hiox Twitter Followers : 73

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