It works for me on master. I tried a new profile, generated a key, and followed myself and it showed under Following right away.  If it is seriously broken in 0.8.2, I'll consider patching to 0.8.3, but I haven't had any other reports that this happens for anybody else, and I'm scratching my head as to how it could happen. 

 Strange...hope in the next release I can test and confirm again.