Hey, it’s been a while now, tonnes of work going on here. I’d just like to give you a little update on what seems to be coming up for Foller.me. Our API has made quite a good job, it’s been included in a few (not so popular) open source libraries, and as I wrote earlier we’ve got an Adobe AIR application almost ready to be released, hopefully this month. We’re also investigating Facebook as a platform and as I mentioned in my personal blog (Facebook API Experiments: Twitter Tags) we’re working on a profile and/or fanpage application tab that will be called “Twitter Tags” powered by our API.

P.S. Thank you for all the shoutouts and suggestions on Twitter, we’re watching those.

~ @kovshenin

I hope you heard of the new OneForty.com – a place for all the twitter apps available, also know as an “App Store for Twitter” on Mashable, Tech Crunch and Read Write Web. Well they’ve gone public a few days ago and yes, Foller.me is there too, so if you do use our app, please consider leaving a short 2-3 line review of what you like, at the Foller.me at OneForty.com page.

Thank you,
~ @kovshenin

We investigated profiles that turned out as 404 errors at Foller.me while existing and publicly open on Twitter. They are not the case. The reason is actually us, we keep hitting 502 errors while working with the Twitter API. I’m not sure what’s causing this, the docs say “Twitter is overloaded” but it’s been going on for two days now.

We applied for whitelisting our IP addresses and Twitter account at the API before we even started the coding, and received approval from Twitter. It seems though that our IP address has changed recently, therefore we’re hitting the limit rates again. We submitted a ticket for a refresh of our whitelisting.

I hope that solves the issue.

Cheers,
~ @kovshenin

Mashable.com’s Spark of Genius series covered Foller.me as part of their Microsoft BizSpark Project which showcases a promising new software company, and finds the unique feature that separates it from the competition every week.

Mashable’s author Adam Ostrow, “Editor in Chief at Mashable, responsible for the editorial management and direction of one of the most widely read blogs in the world, covering the latest technologies, trends, and individuals that are driving the current evolution of the Web”, posted a Foller.me review yesterday covering the aspects, features and advantages of our Twitter tool.

The full review can be read here: Foller.me Tells You All About Twitter Users @ Mashable.com

We got a few eye-opening comments and are intending to work hard on implementing several crucial additions before removing the Beta label.

We would like to thank everyone for the support, especially Adam Ostrow.

~ @SoulSeekah

Err, I’m not sure why we haven’t done this in the first place, but anyway, the documentation is now located at api.foller.me (yes, it still redirects to PBWorks, but perhaps we’d like our own address some day ;)

We’ve also sent out two requests to ProgrammableWeb.com as a Mashup and an API, hoping to get aproval.

~ @kovshenin

Just a quick note that we’ve moved all our static stuff to Amazon S3, so the bookmarklet has changed its address. The old version is still working, but we’ll shut that down in a few weeks, so make sure you get your new one right over here: Foller.me Bookmarklet.

Thank you for being up to date,
~ @kovshenin

Hey everyone! I’m very glad that most of you are loving and actually using our service, this makes us wanna move on. We had a lot of talk about Followers Geography lately. It seems that you people are very excited about that part and here’s the good news. Yes, we will extend it, fact. Not only are we removing the 500 map points restriction (yup, we sorted things out with the Google API and we’re now able to display any amount of points on that map) and, of course, integrating the new pagination system, but we’ve also got a little surprise up our sleeve ;)

Also, the Foller.me API is on its way together with the Foller.me Widget for WordPress, and we’ve got another little feature coming up that I’ll keep secret for now. I’ll just say that it has something to do with Follow Fridays ;) and it will be totally fun!

I won’t post any deadlines because we never know how much time it may take to come up with something new (we’re working for free here, remember? ;)

Stay tuned tweeps!
~ @kovshenin

Well, I’m not sure that I have to write about it once again, cause I already did in my personal blog, right over here: Foller.me on Startups Live TV, but anyways.. Lemme just say that the show was awesome, catch the recorded version of the Foller.me episode here: Foller.me on Twitter and I’ll Foller Back.

Thank you Charissa Cowart and Dannie McClain. Thank you Startups Live TV.

Update: Startups Live TV has been shutdown. *sigh*

~ @kovshenin

This week was surely a great one. We’re now handling over 7000 cached Twitter profiles and still counting! The Followers Geography section will be up and running this weekend, and all this thanks to you and your contribution to the project! So here go our first few shoutouts to the peeps and tweeps we couldn’t have done it without.

• Ruhani Rabin (@ruhanirabin) for his great post “Foller.me know more about your twitter followers” on his personal blog and on Tech2All.com
• Mark Pannell (@7son75) for his fantastic “Foller.me, Foller You” review
• Nischal Shetty (@NischalShetty) for a great review of Foller.me on Twi5.com
• Nikki Pilkington for “Foller.me – Find out about any Twitter user” on BusinessOnTwitter.co.uk

We would also like to thank these guys: @CMoz, @timothypost, @SoulSeekah, @rudevich, @bkmacdaddy, @featureblend, @enked, @nomadone, @bengillam, @karlsutt for the overall feedback, help and support. Thanks so much guys!

I hope we didn’t miss anybody. If we did, please let me know ;)

Wow! Impressive! You might have noticed the public beta being online already (although the official launch is on Monday 1st of June, timezone issue?). Seems to work great and we’re glad to announce that we’ve reached 1000 unique profile views already! Thanks for your support everone!

One more thing, about the Foller.me Rundown. We’ve got some reports stating that the Rundown tweets could get annoying every hour, so we changed that frequency down to twice a day. Hope nobody minds that ;)