title: Twitter API - Getting the retweet count of an account
body: <p>I am looking to pull the total number of retweets a particular user has ever received. Is that possible?</p>
  
  <p>Right now, I am able to pull the total tweet count, the number of followers and the number of friends.</p>
  
  <p>The code I am working with is: </p>
  
  <pre><code>$username = "username";
  $url = "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/users/show.json";
  $requestMethod = "GET";
  $getfield = "?screen_name=".$username."&amp;include_entities=true";
  $twitter = new TwitterAPIExchange($settings);
  $string = json_decode($twitter-&gt;setGetfield($getfield)
      -&gt;buildOauth($url, $requestMethod)
      -&gt;performRequest(),$assoc = TRUE);
  </code></pre>