My #followfriday suggestions for July 10th 2009

This weeks #followfriday suggestion is by Leigh, if you’d like to read last weeks #follow friday suggestions then click here.

So who does Leigh reccomend you follow, and why?

  • First of all @pinkjellybaby – as well as her funny, thoughtful tweets she also has a great blog filled with funny posts and her personal thoughts and adventures. And on top of all that she’s really friendly too :)
  • @percythepigeon is a helpful, kind little pigeon who helped his friend Matt to tell an adult that he was being bullied, Percys mission is to get rid of all bullying and to help children who are being bullied to go tell an adult.

Twitter Interview with Trevor Wood of Redline and Network Midlands

A quick interview with Trevor Wood of Redline and Network Midlands, two sites providing Internet Consultancy, Disaster Management, Data security and business networking events with ecommerce, to be expanded to include event management & corporate hospitality.

How long have you been on Twitter?

Over a year – can’t remember exactly

How many people follow you?

240

How many people do you follow?

105

What made you sign up to Twitter?

Discussions at a conference, thought I’d give it a try

How often do you ‘Tweet’?

Another 5 Twitter applications

A quick shout out to Killer Startups, who have given us links to yet another 5 Twitter apps:

TwitMessenger

TwitMessenger is another Twitter application that offers quite an interesting service. With this solution you will have the chance to schedule your tweets. In this way you will be allowed to program them so they come out whenever you want, no matter the hour, day, month, or year.

To read more about TwitMessenger click here

ChessTweets

Twitter Interview with Nick Parkin of Pimlico Flats

A quick interview with Nick Parkin of Pimlico Flats a large Private Landlord renting Apartments, Flats, and Studios in Central London.

How many people follow you?
692

How many people do you follow?

774

What made you sign up to Twitter?

I often try out new things just because they are new.

How often do you ‘Tweet’?

It’s never a priority for me, so it depends upon what else is going on. I Downgrade or unfollow people who retweet people I am following anyway, or tweet excessively, so I try to limit what I broadcast. I probably average 3 tweets a day, varying from none to a dozen.

Twitter Interview with Heather Noble of Salt Solutions

A quick interview with Heather Noble of Salt Solutions a site offering a comprehensive range of support services.

How long have you been on Twitter?

Approximately 1 month, early days I guess.

How many people follow you?

39

How many people do you follow?

84

What made you sign up to Twitter?

I attended a workshop by Anna Farmery of The Engaging Brand at the WiRE Conference last month and it was clear from what she talked about that any business worth it’s salt should have a presence on Twitter if only to increase their awareness of what everybody else is doing in business. Plus of course the opportunity to share useful information and raise awareness of their business.

Follow Friday? Again? What’s it about?

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It’s Friday once more, and that means it’s #followfriday – you might want to read the last couple of #followfriday posts I’ve written to find out more:

 

 

If you can’t be bothered to read those, it’s pretty simple – Follow Friday is about sharing with your followers the people you thnk are worth following. That way people find new and interesting people who are worth following.

Twitter interview with Andy Kinsey of AndyKinsey.co.uk

A quick interview with Andy Kinsey of AndyKinsey.co.uk home of Andy’s Search Engine Optimisation blog, started in 2008 and now receiving many thousands of unique visits.

How long have you been on Twitter?

Since June 2007

How many people follow you?

1067

How many people do you follow?

1638

What made you sign up to Twitter?

This Week in Tech Podcast increase my interest

How often do you ‘Tweet’?

upto around 30 times per day

How has Twitter been beneficial to your business?

10 Irritating Mistakes that people make on Twitter

Over at NikkiPilkington.com, we’re thrilled to be helping people looking to use Twitter for Business with our TweetMentor programme. We’ve been asking our subscribers what their pet Twitter hates are, and here are the ten that came out top:

ONEMOANING
There’s no better way to drive your followers away than spend your entire time on Twitter moaning about this and that irrelevancies. It’s fine to have an opinion, it perhaps makes people engage with you, but if you’re just there to complain about your love life, stop Twittering and go on the Jeremy Kyle show.

I'm happy to use Increase Sociability.