Yes, finally, Foller.me has reached yet another level of development; a well-deserved “Beta 3″ tag has been placed to mark the beginning of new work stages. Foller.me is now running in the last beta stage (we hope) before we take off that nasty label.

The improvements that have been made from Beta 2 are:

1. The Followers Geography is running stable, and loses it’s beta tag thanks to the efficient Google Maps API.
2. A new Followers Rate section has been added, which displays a profile’s followers growth rate. Big shout-outs go to @boris from TwitterCounter.
3. You can now follow a profile directly from Foller.me via OAuth; no need for your Twitter username or password. Simply click “allow” and viola.
4. Collapsible/expandable sections are now personalized via cookies (finally)!
5. The Foller.me Rundown (@fmrd) has been optimized after a critical fail, when we tweeted the rundown once every minute during an hour via @fmrd a few days ago.
6. A major improvement in caching has been made.

There’s still much to be done. All ideas, comments and suggestions are always appreciated. :)

~ @SoulSeekah

Well what do you know? Amazon’s EC2 works like magic for Foller.me and a few great updates are already here.

As promised, the Foller.me Followers Geography Beta 2 is here. The 500 followers limit has been lifted thanks to the new relations crawler. Now all the followers are spread on a restructured and paginated map.

A new Followers insight table give you a quick overview of the Foller.me Profile’s followers. This new level of depth (‘the followers’ followers’) is represented in the form of statistical data, which can help you assess the overall quality of the profile’s followers – the amount of updates, and the followers of the latter). This is just a basic representation and we are working on a graphical interface with much more in-depth and complex information.

Foller.me rundown has moved over to @fmrd and now with a little surprise for tweeps that get 1st place every 12 hours.

Thank you for being with us and witnessing the evolution of Foller.me. Stay tuned for more updates by following @follerme. Questions, suggestions and ideas – appreciated.

~ @SoulSeekah

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 ;)

We’re ahead of our plan and glad to announce that the Foller.me Rundown feature (which was planned for July 2009) is already running! Up and steady!

What’s this “Rundown”? Well, basically it’s a popularity contest. Everytime somebody checks a user profile on Foller.me, we log that into our database. Once every hour or so, we look in there, and dig out the 5 most popular people (with the most profile hits), then tweet them out public via @follerme!

So, who’s are the Foller.me celebrities? Well that’s an easy one. Just take a look at @follerme’s profile and the @mentions cloud. Hope to see your name there ;)

Oh, and we DON’T like pseudo-hackers trying to get themselves to the top. We log everything and we ban, okay? So be careful…