As I mentioned earlier this week, with Foller.me beta 3, people now have the ability to follow tweeps directly from the website with a single click, without having to browse to their Twitter profile nor providing us with their Twitter credentials (thanks to OAuth. Read this post if you haven’t: The Importance of Using Twitter API via OAuth). Now, why not take even more advantage of Twitter...
The Importance of Using Twitter API via OAuth
I hope you noticed the latest changes at Foller.me. I’m talking about the new Followers rate section thanks to the TwitterCounter API and of course something I’ve been dreaming about since the launch of the project. You view a profile at Foller.me before making a decision about following that particular person or not, right? And yeah, we had a link at the bottom of the page that lead...
Foller.me Featured on ProgrammableWeb.com
Wow this is so awesome. I received an e-mail this morning and here’s what it said: Dear kovshenin, Your mashup Foller.me has now been published on ProgrammableWeb. You can see it here: <a href="">; It is also our Mashup of the Day for 09/13/2009. Congratulations! It will be on the front page of ProgrammableWeb today. Thank you for submitting your application and sharing it with our...
Foller.me: Almost Ready to Remove the Beta Label
With a few core changes to Foller.me (hope you noticed the performance tuning) we’re almost ready to remove the beta label. I wrote on Twitter a few weeks ago that the beta label will be removed in September, so here we are. I’m not sure if it means anything to you, but it does mean a lot to me. You see, a product in beta is used with caution most of the time, that’s what I do...
Twitter Friendly Links: Now In Alphanumeric Mode
Hello my friends! Yes, I’m finally back from my two-week vacation. It was awesome, I spent a week in Magnitogorsk and another one in Sochi. The weather was great, it only rained on Sunday, when I was on my way back. Everything went fine, I’ve seen all my friends, we had a great time. Sochi is okay, getting ready for year 2014, though their airport in Adler still sucks big time...
New WordPress Plugin: The Foller.me Widget
Here’s a way for you to show what you’ve been tweeting about lately. Right on your blog, in the sidebar. No Twitter passwords required, cause this thing works via the Foller.me API. This is the first ever app (widget, gadget, or whatever you wanna call that) based on our Foller.me API, so I hope we have a great start here, and you young developers out there, dig through this...
New WordPress Plugin: Twitter Followers Widgets
Hey, there’s a new widget that can display user pics of people you follow (and people who follow you) on Twitter. It updates whenever you gain a new follower. That’s a new widget for WordPress I wrote a few days ago, and received aproval from the WordPress.org plugin directory today, so it’s the official launch. Go get yours right over here: Twitter Followers Widgets and...
Twitter API: Picking the Right Source
I’m sure you noticed that a few weeks ago Twitter changed the source that came unsigned via the API from web to API which could basically reveal any robot that is trying to act human, right? Well if you look at the statuses/update method in the Twitter API documentation they don’t say anything about the source parameter. Strange, right? Well I read something about it on some forums...
Interview: The Woo is a Mix of w00t & WordPress
I’ve managed to chat with one of the three founders of WooThemes lately – Adii Pienaar. Adii was very busy during the last couple of weeks with the Woo2 Release, but he was still so kind to answer some questions I had, so here we go: @kovshenin Okay Adii, how are things going at WooThemes right now? I mean after WordPress has released 2.8 and most of your clients have upgraded (I...
Foller.me Gets Featured on Startups Live TV!
StartupsLive.tv is definitely one of the best shows I’ve seen around these days and guess what! I got there! Startups Live is the non-biased platform for any startup to get live exposure, a captive audience, and valuable feedback from potential business partners, customers, members, and investors. I sent a request to Startups Live asking them to feature the Foller.me Twitter service...