Everyone knows my thoughts on Follow Friday by now – simple lists of names don't do it for me and I never follow anyone from those lists. Give me a REASON to follow someone and I'll consider it! Which is why I tend to put my FFs in a blog post such as this one!
This week's FFs are all NikkiPilkington.com clients – some are new, some long term, but they're all people we love working with.
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been really remiss over the past few Fridays. See, I started out last year LOVING Follow Friday, the one day a weekw here you suggested people that your followers should follow. I diligently posted details of people I thought were great, and hoped that others followed them. I got really excited everytime someone suggested me for #FF too, and thanked them loudly.
And then I got fed up with the ‘lists’ – no reasons why I should follow someone, just lists of Twitter handles I couldn’t be bothered checking out. So I made a few posts along the lines of ‘tell us WHY we should follow someone’ and set off on a mission to practice what I preached.
OK, it’s probably not that exciting anymore, unless you’re new to Twitter, but I still find FollowFriday a great way to find new people to follow and find out more about.
Someone asked me the other day; “Has #followfriday run its course? Is it old now? Is it over?” I don’t know the answer to that, but I really hope not, because to me, FF epitomises one of the great things about networking – referrals.
When done properly, and thought through, #FollowFriday is a great way to shout out about and recommend the people you follow who really make a difference, and who you feel shold be brought to the attention of others.
Seems like only a week ago we had the last one…
In the spirit of my last post about Follow Friday – Stop Spamming Me With FollowFriday! – I won’t be posting any Follow Friday tweets, just pointing people to this post.
So, who do I recommend you follow, and why?
I caught a Facebook post / Twitter status from @grahamjones this morning – it appears that he’s had someone unfollow him on Twitter because they see his #followfriday recommendations as spam.
It’s true to say that if you follow a lot of people, then it’s difficult to see the real content in amongst the constant #followfriday messages on a Friday, and if someone sends numerous FFs, then it could get a little annoying.
But I’m a great believer in Follow Friday – I think it’s important to recommend people for your followers to check out, so what to do?
It’s Friday today – on Twitter it’s known as FollowFriday.
Now, if you don’t know where FF came from, feel free to read this – http://mashable.com/2009/03/06/twitter-followfriday/ for the longer version, or below for the shorter version and why I think it’s good
FollowFriday began in January 2009, and it’s a way of recommending people on Twitter to your followers. You recommend a person, and then you say why others should follow them. You could recommend more than one person, and send more than one Tweet about this if you want. The important bit (to my mind) is to tell people WHY they should follow this person.
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