Foller.me - Find Out If That Tweeter Is Worth Following

As it is only natural for something that constitutes the essence of Twitter, there is an endless number of tools aiming to let you know whether or not a particular person is worth being followed or left to his own devices.

In this particular case, Foller.me aims to provide users with comprehensive information in as short a span of time as possible. Upon furnishing the screen name in question, you will be presented with profile information and (the most interesting part) a selection of the most representative excerpts from that user´s latest 200 tweets. Three different clouds are duly produced: “Hashtags”, “mentions” and “Recent Topics”.

This solution seems to address a common concern for tweeting adepts: while reading a representative number of tweets generated by any user would be the logical thing to do before starting to follow anybody, that is downright impossible for the mere fact that we always have better things to do. Having access to a sort of “Best Of” collection of tweets is certainly interesting, and that makes this site worth a peep.

“Foller.me is a Twitter service that can provide you with the most detailed information about a specific Twitter user in the least amount of time!”

It makes for figuring out who might be worth-following without having to wade through endless tweets.

How is the search process carried out from a technical viewpoint? What APIs are employed?