For a while, I've been trying to find a way to put my followers on Twitter on a world map. With an open API and a bunch of other mash-ups, you'd think this should be a breeze, but I haven't been able to find a good solution.

Until now. Foller.me launched in June, and digs deep in your Twitter stream to extract some interesting data.

You input a Twitter name into the searchbox and hit enter. Foller.me gets access to the profile of that user via the Twitter API, scans all the public info and the latest 200 tweets and builds up three tag clouds: topics, #hashtags and @mentions, all based on the user’s recent activity. In addition, you get a nice little Google map where your followers, at least some of them, are marked.

I suppose I should mention that this service seems very much in beta, and I did have to try a few times to get it to work.