Oooh! The Foller.me API is finally up and running, and already documented here: Foller.me API. We’re anticipating and eagerly waiting for your first widgets, gadget apps and plug-ins developed with the Foller.me API. A great example that is already being used by some blogs is the Foller.me powered widget for WordPress developed by none other than @kovshenin. This simple widget uses the Foller.me API to load up the latest Twitter messages for a specified user, simple and nice eh?

If you have developed or trying to develop some interesting Foller.me API-based tool – let us know. If you have any questions or suggestions – let us know. Let us know about yourself so we can let the world know about you :)

~ by @SoulSeekah

I have some good news and some bad news. Let’s start with the bad news – bug reports (perhaps they aren’t that bad, as we haven’t launched yet). No languages supported other than English. Well as far as I know TweetDeck for instance, doesn’t support anything but English yet, so that’s not THAT big of a problem. And our databases run under utf8, so that’ll be fixed in no time ;) We promise!

Good news. There are three medium-scale hosting companies willing to support our project and offer their services for free in exchange for an add opportunity on Foller.me, but unfortunatelly not all of them provide cloud or grid hosting. Anyway that shouldn’t be much of a problem for the first month or so. Haven’t made a final decision yet and still digging through other hosting companies. We’ll let you know whever we decide.

And here are a couple of good suggestions and ideas from within the team and Twitter responces.

• Include a “User tweets since …” label to know how long the user has been on Twitter
• Correct the clouds sizing ration for tweeps that have more than 3-5 general topics they tweet about
• Average Tweets per day rate for a particular user
• Firefox plugin for quick access to Foller.me
• WordPress widget for a “My Twitter Topics” block in the sidebar
• Public API for any other developers out there to help develop upon Foller.me

Thanks for all the ideas friends, and keep them coming! You’re great!
Cheers.