Comments on: Did @PhilBaumann Just Save Follow Friday?

By: Corona Real Estate Agent

Corona Real Estate Agent — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:10:29 +0000

Thanks for the awesome post. You put some time into that one.

By: Bevena Blackmon

Bevena Blackmon — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:14:56 +0000

I find it easier to track my #FFs, RTs, and mentions by opening a separate twitter tab and tracking “real time results” for @bblack223. That way I can always separate those that are responding to my tweets and get back to them quickly. I have a saved search of @bblack223 that I pull up daily to track this.

By: Flek

Flek — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:04:15 +0000

Thanks for the information. Just found the blog. Could find a bunch of ‘very useful’ tips. Subscribing right away..!!

By: Seth Goldstein

Seth Goldstein — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:28:01 +0000

Two of my favorite Tweeters @philbaumann and @nealwiser. They are great Tweeters and thought leaders. I do agree with Neal about #followfriday. What I try and do is:

#followfriday @somebody because….

This explains why people should follow them. Not just a bunch of screen names. That’s worthless.

By: Are Morch

Are Morch — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:21:22 +0000

A lot of good points and ideas here.

I agree that #followfriday has become a little cluttered. If you do a a search on #followfriday you will see people use it daily, not only on Fridays.

I also notice many that use #followfriday in some ways that I don’t support. They get a #followfriday recommendation and then they Retweet this recommendation. Instead of send the friend that recommended either a #thankyou or return the favor by giving the #friend a #followfriday with some thoughts why you recommend this #friend.

Like Neal my favorites don’t necessary comes from people I want to mention on #followfriday.

It can be ok to have TweetLater (now SocialOomph) to send you an email every time your username is mentioned. Dough it works ok to just use search.twitter and look up your Username there. Also with TweetDeck’s search option it is fairly easy to keep track of your mentions.

I liked the approach Dale’s wife had taken, thought that was a neat and cool idea. Maybe something I need to try out.

Cheers.. Are

By: Heidi Cool

Heidi Cool — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:56:05 +0000

Interesting idea. I scaled down my #followfriday recommendations earlier this summer. What I now do is pick 3 people each week. I recommend each in separate Tweets in which I describe roughly the topics upon which they Tweet or why I follow them. This way I don’t clog the stream and the names are given a context. It’s still hard to choose which ones to pick, as there are so many great Tweeps to follow, but it seems to work for me.

Doing it this way means that I can’t always be reciprocal. This can feel a bit awkward if Tweeps X & Z have given me #ff recommendations, but the point isn’t to recommend on a quid pro quo basis anyway. In many cases I’ve already recommended them in the past, or they’ll turn up in the rotation at some future date. Hopefully they already know they’re appreciated from my replies, retweets, etc. And since I only do 3 each week my followers can see that I’m only recommending people with whom I actually interact.

By: shaunjudy

shaunjudy — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:25:47 +0000

I think that Follow Friday is one of the most annoying days on twitter. I try my best to not even look at Twitter on Fridays.

By: Dale Chumbley

Dale Chumbley — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:58:29 +0000

My wife @BridgetChumbley is still relatively new to Twitter and blogging. I think she had a fabulous way of doing a #followfriday with real teeth. Some serious value to who she thinks is worth following and why. Check it out:
http://www.bridgetchumbley.com/2009/09/fun-friday-followfriday/
Now this is a serious #followfriday!

By: Neal Wiser

Neal Wiser — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:21:48 +0000

Thanks to everyone for the great comments (and to those who RT’d). One of the things I DO love about FollowFridays is the discussion that it always generates. Lots of food for thought.

By: Sylvia

Sylvia — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:41:50 +0000

I just joined twitter in July and even i had started to dread #ff as well because I loved following a lot of people and I’m followed as well, but I didn’t want to recommend a lot of who i follow just because and I saw that there were really no real etiquette about #ff.

I am loving @PhilBaumann idea. thanks so much