If you are new to Twitter, you might have noticed a lot of tweets adding a #followfriday tag to their tweets. What is that? Put simply, #followfriday is an easy way to offer recommendations of interesting people that you follow on Twitter. If you are enjoying the tweets of fellow twitterers, you can tell the world about it.
FollowFriday is an actual Twitter account at http://twitter.com/FOLLOWfriday, and the bio there states it best: “Tweet the names of Twitter users you’d like others to follow and tag it with #followfriday.”
#FollowFriday started quietly in early January 2009 with this simple tweet from from Micah Baldwin stating: “I am starting Follow Fridays. Every Friday, suggest a person to follow, and everyone follow him/her. Today its @fancyjeffrey & @w1redone.”
From that little tweet, a phenomenon was born. I’m writing this post on a Friday morning. Before I started writing, I did a search for #FollowFriday on Twitter. In the time it took to write these few paragraphs, Twitter is telling me that about 4,000 more #followfriday tweets have been added since I did my search. That’s in less than 10 minutes!
So, feel free to participate in #FollowFriday… it’s easy and it’s a nice thing to do. If you are following somebody on Twitter and you find the tweets interesting, by all means give them a boost! Just add a #followfriday to your tweet with the twitter account you want to recommend… do it for one twitterer, do it for 100! Oh, and if you add the @ sign before their twitter name (like mine would be @theatriumdesign) your friend will be sure to notice your good karma and hopefully recommend you right back. You can also highlight a subject matter for searchability by adding #keyword to the mix. That will help others to find #followfriday recommendations for the subjects they like. For example, you could add #dogs as a keyword.
Try it out! You can practice by recommending me! Today’s #followfriday @theatriumdesign. (hint hint!)
ps. 6,284 #followfriday results in the time it took to write this blog. Now, that’s big!
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