Get the following or followers count for a user

This post snippet gets the following / followers count for a logged-in user:

<?php
if ( function_exists( 'bp_follow_total_follow_counts' ) ) :
	$count = bp_follow_total_follow_counts();

	// uncomment the next line to output the following count for the logged-in user
	// echo $count['following'];

	// uncomment the next line to output the followers count for the logged-in user
	// echo $count['followers'];
endif;
?>

This post snippet gets the following / followers count for user ID #5:

<?php
if ( function_exists( 'bp_follow_total_follow_counts' ) ) :
	$count = bp_follow_total_follow_counts( array(
		// change 5 to whatever user ID you need to fetch
		'user_id' => 5
	) );

	// uncomment the next line to output the following count for user ID 5
	// echo $count['following'];

	// uncomment the next line to output the followers count for user ID 5
	// echo $count['followers'];
endif;
?>