Business on Twitter Because Twitter’s not just for twits ;)

 An email in this morning asking us to have a look at this new service from Foller.me.

We’re always up for finding out about new Twitter apps and uses, so off we go to have a good look around

They tell us: 

Foller.me is a new third-party Twitter service that renders instant detailed information about a particular Twitter user’s latest 200 posts. It would generally take hours of scouting and pulling together information from hundreds of posts to scrape up some sort of insight into the user’s topic interests on Twitter. Foller.me does this in a flash, providing 3 tag clouds which represent the user’s key topics on Twitter.

How does it work? Foller.me gets access to the profile of a user via the Twitter API, scanning all the public info and his/her latest 200 tweets. It builds up three tag clouds: topics, #hashtags and @mentions, based on the user’s recent activity, excluding all stop words.

Let’s say you’ve received 20 new followers today and you cannot decide whether to follow back or not. You do NOT have the time to read 200 tweets on each of them, right? Nevertheless, you can’t just follow everyone, since you’ll get unwanted tweets in your friends timeline. Here’s the key: take a peek at his Foller.me profile and you’re done!

With much more features and functionality coming up at Foller.me the possibilities are endless. Follow wisely with Foller.me!

For additional information visit: http://blog.foller.me/about/
Website URL: http://foller.me

Well, we’ve had a play, and it is quite funky – you can see a tag cloud of keywords, recent hashtags a person has used, and people they’ve mentioned in an @ message, but to be honest we don’t think it’s something we would use regularly – a quick scan thorugh a person’s last few Tweets s enough for us to make a decision on folowing.

That said, I’m sure it will be successful, as lots of people like to look more indepth.

Tags: foller

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