Twitter API 1.1 Getting Followers using cursors

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this is driving me actually crazy, twitter recently moved over to API 1.1 thus making us change some of our applications to the new version but i can get the base code working fine without the cursors flag but as soon as i add the cursors in it just throws an exception.
this is my base code that works all fine and tandy

Dim oauth_token = " "
Dim oauth_token_secret = " "
Dim oauth_consumer_key = " "
Dim oauth_consumer_secret = " "

oauth implementation details
Dim oauth_version = "1.0"
Dim oauth_signature_method = "HMAC-SHA1"

unique request details
Dim oauth_nonce = Convert.ToBase64String(New ASCIIEncoding().GetBytes(DateTime.Now.Ticks.ToString()))
Dim timeSpan = DateTime.UtcNow - New DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, _
0, DateTimeKind.Utc)
Dim oauth_timestamp = Convert.ToInt64(timeSpan.TotalSeconds).ToString()

message api details
Dim status = "Updating status via REST API if this works"
Dim resource_url = "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/followers/ids.json"

Dim screen_name = "SimplyBenGenius"
Dim count = "5000"
Dim cursor = "-1"
create oauth signature
Dim baseFormat = "count={7}&oauth_consumer_key={0}&oauth_nonce={1}&oauth_signature_method={2}" + "&oauth_timestamp={3}&oauth_token={4}&oauth_version={5}&screen_name={6}"

Dim baseString = String.Format(baseFormat, oauth_consumer_key, oauth_nonce, oauth_signature_method, oauth_timestamp, oauth_token, _
oauth_version, Uri.EscapeDataString(screen_name), Uri.EscapeDataString(count), Uri.EscapeDataString(cursor))

baseString = String.Concat("GET&", Uri.EscapeDataString(resource_url), "&", Uri.EscapeDataString(baseString))

Dim compositeKey = String.Concat(Uri.EscapeDataString(oauth_consumer_secret), "&", Uri.EscapeDataString(oauth_token_secret))

Dim oauth_signature As String
Using hasher As New HMACSHA1(ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(compositeKey))
oauth_signature = Convert.ToBase64String(hasher.ComputeHash(ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(baseString)))
End Using

create the request header
Dim headerFormat = "OAuth oauth_nonce=""{0}"", oauth_signature_method=""{1}"", " + "oauth_timestamp=""{2}"", oauth_consumer_key=""{3}"", " + "oauth_token=""{4}"", oauth_signature=""{5}"", " + "oauth_version=""{6}"""

Dim authHeader = String.Format(headerFormat, Uri.EscapeDataString(oauth_nonce), Uri.EscapeDataString(oauth_signature_method), Uri.EscapeDataString(oauth_timestamp), Uri.EscapeDataString(oauth_consumer_key), Uri.EscapeDataString(oauth_token), _
Uri.EscapeDataString(oauth_signature), Uri.EscapeDataString(oauth_version))


make the request

ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue = False

Dim postBody = "screen_name=" + Uri.EscapeDataString(screen_name)

Dim postbody2 = "count=" + Uri.EscapeDataString(count)
resource_url += "?" + postBody + "&" + postbody2
Dim request As HttpWebRequest = DirectCast(WebRequest.Create(resource_url), HttpWebRequest)
request.Headers.Add("Authorization", authHeader)
request.Method = "GET"
request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"


Dim response As WebResponse = request.GetResponse()
Dim responseData As String = New StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()).ReadToEnd()


RichTextBox1.Text = responseData


it works perfectly well, returning the first 5000 ids without a problem but when it is included it just simply returns nothing but my Signature base string is identical to the one that twitter generates as a test.. but when i include the cursor it fails Dim baseFormat = "count={7}&cursor={8}&oauth_consumer_key={0}&oauth_nonce={1}&oauth_signature_method={2}" + "&oauth_timestamp={3}&oauth_token={4}&oauth_version={5}&screen_name={6}"

any help would be great its driving me insane, if its something simple i apologizes im new to VB

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