Haris Zulfiqar

Twounter simply returns the number of followers for a twitter username.
You have two options to fetch the number of followers for a username.
You can use the function <code><?php echo twounter('username') ?></code> in your template files or you can use the twounter 
shortcode <code>[twounter]username[/twounter]</code>in post/page editor to return the numbers of followers for the 
username.

Twounter

Twounter returns the number of followers of a twitter user in simple text format.

bsdeluxe

joepahl

With Twitter Wings you can:
<ul>
<li>display your latest tweets</li>
<li>replace t.co links with display URLs (pretty links)</li>
<li>add/configure a Twitter Follow Button</li>
<li>include tweets from one or multiple accounts</li>
<li>cache tweets for faster page load</li>
<li>customize the timestamp</li>
<li>show/hide username</li>
<li>show/hide display name</li>
<li>filter tweets by hashtags</li>
<li>strip hashtags from tweets</li>
<li>show/hide retweets</li>
<li>show/hide replies</li>
<li>HTML5 semantic markup</li>
<li>implement as a widget or by using <code>TwitterWings()</code> template function</li>
</ul>
More information about Twitter Wings is available at https://github.com/joepahl/twitter-wings

Twitter Wings

An easy to configure Twitter Plugin with Pretty URLs.

Twounter vs Twitter Wings