If you are new to twitter you will notice every Friday tons of tweets from tweeps recommending other fellow twitter friends with the #hash tag of #FF or #Follow Friday.
Now the concept is great but I don’t think it get’s applied in the right way because most people will not actually go ahead and follow the people who are being recommended.
So what Follow Friday essentially becomes is just a way to say thanks or give props to the people you enjoy communicating with, which is fine but I don’t think is what it’s original intention was.
In theory you would think you would gain a lot more followers on follow friday but I have found that not to be the case even for someone who gets quite a few follow friday recommendations.
Not to say that follow friday is a bad thing or doesn’t work because I am sure there are different results with other people and it is still a popular trend. So I would love to hear what you do when someone you respect on twitter recommends a fellow tweep on follow friday, do you actually follow them?
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I was always wondering how these phenomena begin, like Black Friday or Cyber Monday. I discovered they’re invented by retailers. Is Follow Friday a grassroots campaign?
Dan, I don’t know whether its a boon or bane, but personally what I feel is I would like to follow the tweets that depends on the person being recommended
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Great blog post on using Twitter, with your honest thoughts on what tweeting and re-tweeting on Fridays really affects. It’s good to see an honest and well thought out opinion on such matters. Thanks for sharing and giving this twitter noob a little more to chew on.
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it depends on who recommended the follow. If its an industry guru who doesn’t hand them out often I’m all over it!
I guess I wouldn’t do that, there are other options to recommend someone, I personally consider it good, since it’s handled as a favor to others.
I used to have over 700 people that I followed (partly to increase my followers)…but I found that over time twitter just turned into “noise” for me, so I ended up removing all but about 150 so that twitter was less noise for me.
I wouldn’t do that as well, if you do with a good purpose it has a meaning.
I haven’t started using Twitter yet, but follow friday sounds like a good way to follow some people you never would have before.
I use to follow people all the time. Then it turns out I get way too many tweets than I care about. So now I don’t follow anymore. Most of the tweets are just mindless gibberish anyway.
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I get a follow friday shout every week and I always wondered what on earth it was all about! I can’t say I’ve seen my follower numbers increase nor have I ever followed any of the other tweets. Might start paying more attention now and see what happens!
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I’m lot John, I have to be careful about watching the number of people I follow since I tend to go overboard at times, lol
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Thanks for the explanation. Just started on Twitter recently and was wondering what the FF was all about. I’ll have to start paying attention to it since it sounds like participating can be at least somewhat beneficial.
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My Twitter philosophy has always been the same whether people follow me or if I see Follow Friday recommendations or if I find their Twitter stream from their site or blog.
If I find what they are saying on Twitter interesting – I’ll follow them. If they don’t @reply and every post is a promotion for some crappy product or service, none of which are related to each other in any way… I will not follow you. Even if you are following me.
I want to limit the information I receive to targeted relevant things, otherwise I’d never get anything done through all the clutter!
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i am still trying to weed out useful tweets from the primadonas listing useless chit chat. i find that 70% is rubbish and 30% is actually useful ie the right place, right time tweets surrounding breaking news…..maybe i am only exploring 10% of its potential?
I got still some new followers with the Follow Friday tweet methode every week!
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I would tend to agree with you there, friday is generally the best day to get followers, most of mine come on fridays!!