Comments on: #followfriday Revolution

By: Luke

Luke — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:56:44 +0000

I gave up on Follow Friday a while back. I get loads of them each week and they really serve no purpose. *IF* I do do a mention, I like to give a reason as to why people should follow them rather than just listing a load of Twitter IDs.

By: Michael Shepherd

Michael Shepherd — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:06:10 +0000

I agree with the author. I think its overkill. No one has time to click on 6 mentions for every #ff stream without knowing why. Its just noise, is just spam. Its just a way to convince yourself that you are becoming popular and making a difference.

Everyone wants to take the easy road in life but sadly following what everyone else is doing will not get you the result that you want. Simply put most of us want what everyone else does not have. I think this is a great idea.

And Anne-Marie I read over your bio and you put as your number one focus (Bible first). If you are going to advertise this (nothing wrong with that) then you need to know that you are putting yourself in a position to be watched. It makes a much better impression on the rest of us bible believers when you talk to people with a tone of courtesy and respect. The author of this blog is not telling the whole world how they should change twitter. This is *his* blog and you are *subscribed* to his blog and blogs are meant to express our personal ideas.

In my opinion, you are way out of line on your comment. I do agree with everything else in your bio and I believe you were probably just having one of those days. We all get them but honestly think about the tone of your delivery.

And yes I am 100% in agreement with your politcal views and I hope everyone in here takes the time to read and watch these videos http://ow.ly/1oXSB

By: Joshua Guffey

Joshua Guffey — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:26:30 +0000

Yeah, I think that Twitter in general has reached a point where without some serious filtering, its signal-to-noise ratio cripples its usefulness. I’m all about tweaking my incoming stream of data. I’m a guy I don’t handle idol chatter real well. I wanna know…”what’s the point?”

By: Bloggie Stylish

Bloggie Stylish — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:28:38 +0000

i actually joined twitter on a friday and was puzzled by all the #FF’s that were flying all over the place. I googled what it meant & found a handy article on how to use FF effectively. what i will usually do is FF a few people in a realted group & then say “meet some nice ” whatever they are in their profession. it just makes sense to let my followers know who i’m talikng about & why they should follow them.

By: John kova

John kova — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:38:05 +0000

Hello every body..What follow friday?I don’t understand.How i can make follower up to 10000/week?Sorry, i newbie..

By: Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:34:01 +0000

I guess I have better Tweeps that the author here because I love #FollowFriday. It’s one of the best ways I can easily meet new like-minded people.

If you don’t like #FollowFriday, don’t participate,….but in any case please get off your self-righteous high-horse where you dictate to everyone else “how” something already in existence “should” be done. Go do something different. Start a new hashtag. But don’t tell all of the #FollowFriday participants that it needs to be done differently. You don’t need to get your panties in a twist because the world doesn’t “do” #FollowFriday to suit your tastes.

There are some changes I would like to make to the way “I” do #FollowFriday, but I haven’t been able to accomplish it on my own and no one else has developed an app that is effective. (I did find something close to what I want, but it is still WAY too time-consuming.) Still, I’m not going to tell everyone else on Twitter that they “should” do it MY way.

By: Bloggie Stylish

Bloggie Stylish — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:32:09 +0000

i don’t know how many times i’ve tweeted articles on how to use follow friday effectively. when i do FF, i’ll mention a few names then say “meet some nice vets” etc… dumping your follower list onto twitter is really annoying & ineffective!

By: Peter Schmuck

Peter Schmuck — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:58:43 +0000

Nice idea, but i don’t think this will grow too much though i’m using it very often.

By: Christine Holbrook

Christine Holbrook — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:37:30 +0000

I enjoy follow Friday , I am on twitter only six months and have found
many like minded individuals, I do however not send a #FF for every
person, the lists are personal and have meaning they really are
the people I would want you to talk to .. that may be the
secret ingredient to a #FF that works.. mean it.

By: Brad Hart

Brad Hart — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:09:45 +0000

I mostly ignore #followfriday trends when they appear in my updates whether they have information attached or are just lists of names. It is more about the person sending out the tweet than anything else. If I am tweeting with them or are really interested in what they same and they throw a list of names, I am tempted to check it out. The fact is tweetdeck makes checking them out quite easy.

The one thing I don’t see many people doing when it comes to #followfriday is using proper etiquette. I am not talking about the people sending out the #FF tweet either. At least one person mentioned above they unfollow anyone sending out a list of names. That is just pathetic especially if you are doing it without checking out their list and says a lot about the kind of user you are. If you don’t want to see #FF in your stream get a client that can filter. The next thing I think is a breach of proper etiquette is not tanking people for putting you on their list. Not acknowledging those that think you are worth talking about is about the most arrogant thing you can do. Even if you are on thousands of #FF posts there are ways to acknowledge that quickly and simply.

All of that said I think there are much better ways to find the kind of people you want to tweet with. There are days such #followatheistsunday which draws a very specific kind of crowd. Then there is my favorite method of all twitter search. I use tweetdeck and regularly have several searches going at once to help me find people who are tweeting about what I’m interested in. Whether you are looking for a specific group who picks a day for self promotion, or you are looking for people talking about something specific, I have to reccomnend tweetdeck for finding them.