Just don't work

it used to work. I changed the number of fans to display and it all stopped, exactly as you say.

After some research,
my issue seems to come from the twitter API limitations for shared hosting services.
Perhaps an authentication option will be a way to improve this great plugin?

are you sure?
how did you figure that one out?

You could read the twitter dev. faq, the current discussions
I’ve checked that on a local lamp and a piece of code …
I’m sure of nothing due to my dev. skills, but the fix is somewhere around …

damn. is there an alternative to this plugin?
I really need this functionality ??

Fix for Twitter API Issue

See the above post. Changing the URL used for pulling follower info worked for me.

I just released the new version that fixes all the issues. Please upgrade.