It’s FollowFriday! What’s FollowFriday?

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.

Have you had business from Twitter? Let us know!

Guess What, I've just got my own Whale when I was twittering...
Creative Commons License photo credit: helloyiying

In the last few days I’ve spoken to quite a few journalists about the fact that it IS possible to get business and leads from twitter.

I’ve argued with a couple of people who think that the only people who are making money from it are people offering Twitter training courses or Twitter consultancy.

And do you know what? It gets really frustrating. NOT because I’m trying to promote a Twitter training course. Not because I’m trying to sell them anything in fact (the course is no good if you’ve not already had some experience with twitter). But because I KNOW it works if done properly. And I’m pretty damned sure it will work for everyone.

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