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I currently have the following code which captures the number of followers for a particular Twitter account, and prints it to a webpage:

<html>
    <head>
    <script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.m
+in.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        $(document).ready(function() {

    var twitterusername = 'ESPN';
   
    $.getJSON('http://twitter.com/users/' + twitterusername + '.json?c
+allback=?', function(data) {
        $('#followers').html(data.followers_count);
        document.write(twitterusername, "# of Followers: ", data.follo
+wers_count);
    });
});
</script>
    </head>
    <body>
    <div id='followers'></div>
    </body>
</html>
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How can I take the number of followers, and store it into a Perl variable?

--perl.j

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