Comments on: Stop spamming me with Follow Friday!

By: Gary Gorman

Gary Gorman — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:00:35 +0000

Hi Nikki,

Great idea again on the best and most productive use of #followfriday.

Thanks

Gary

By: sybillinart

sybillinart — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:16:33 +0000

I agree and I started last friday to do it on my blog ! :
http://sybillinartnews.blogspot.com/2009/06/follow-friday.html

By: casseyozzy

casseyozzy — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:11:25 +0000

I’m thinking about unfollowing someone because his #followfriday clogs up my reading other posts. I also think #followfriday is good. I keep mine to a few who really impressed me for the week. Followiing someone who post every minute is so annoying some of his stuff is good. But too much of a good thing is too much. This is a great article!! You rock!

By: xrgravity23

xrgravity23 — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:09:28 +0000

Great idea. Might give it a try. Gotta say, though. I think FFs are spam when someone just lists as many users as they can. HATE THAT. But if the person explains WHY I should follow that person, then it isn’t, in my eyes, spam.

By: Julie Roads

Julie Roads — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:03:51 +0000

This is a great idea, but I still love Follow Friday. I find great people to follow – which has become a bit harder with all of the spammers and ‘internet marketers’ on the network now. I agree that when people send out huge lists of people, it’s a little annoying – I certainly prefer when they tweet one or two names with an actual reason to follow the person/people.

Thanks for writing this!

By: Chris Prakoso

Chris Prakoso — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:38:41 +0000

Nikki,
I agree completely with the idea on not adding #FF noise to already crowded Twitter stream. It’s true that it’s getting harder and harder to justify the merit of the constant onslaught of #FF list, that these days I almost completely ignore them.
I also like the idea of doing the recommendation off-twitter, on the blog, and link to in from twitter, which is why I created this http://mediasosial.com/socialnetworking/the-ultimate-list-of-people-to-follow-on-twitter/
There are some problem with this solution though, mostly because most people are just lazy Often the started to tweet because they don’t want to blog anymore, because let’s face it, writing a blog does take a bit more time than tweeting.
Another problem is that not eveybody’s got a blog. Which sort of defeats the purpose.
For these people though, I suggest that they do one person recommendation per tweet, and give a reason. This would at least give the recommendation more sense of genuineness.

By: David

David — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:15:11 +0000

#ff is like all things, great when it starts and has meaning, but when ‘Friday’ has become bigger than recommending people, it has lost its sponteneity.