My Follow Friday List

Follow Friday on Twitter is quite a community event. People all over tweet lists of their friends as suggestions of people to follow - the tweeted people see the messages in their timeline, or on TweetDeck, and deserving folks pick up a few extra followers. Recommendations are tweeted throughout the day, which, by the wonder of an Internet crossing all timezones, lasts about 48 hours. It's a boisterous and noisy affair - think of it as something like a group hug. However, it's not without its critics, mainly because of the enormous amount of noise tweets - and the inevitable retweets - end up generating. Like most Twitter messages containing links, the proportion that are actually clicked on is, I imagine, exceptionally low. Many treat it as Recommend Friday, and forget the follow bit - just getting their Twitter user name in everyone's timeline is what they're after. (Thanks to @Azlen for that observation). For many, the entire Follow Friday experience is a continuous wave of spam. A group hug is all well and good, but a group hug between people with thousands of followers each is just asking for trouble. (Especially when some folks are after something a lot less polite than a hug!).

So, I'm doing Follow Friday differently this week. I'm listing my recommendations right here, on this page. I'll be sending out @replies to these lucky folks, so they'll be sure they're getting the credit - and the sort of people who visit this page have already had to click on a link, so hopefully that will cut down the amount of spam followers as well. Most importantly, though, there won't be as much noise made for the people whom Follow Friday has become such a distraction. Please let me know in the comment area what you think about this way of doing things... if it doesn't work, never mind, but if by work you mean "quality followers" as opposed to quantity, I'll be happy.

Special thanks to @sharonandalex for pointing out just how crazy Follow Friday can be. And... if you didn't make the list? Interact with me before next week :)

@teambudd1
@Raenie360
@frombecca
@Azlen
@sharonandalex
@db
@P_Finley
@WoodlandSpirit
@mollyblock
@Reeph
@crumcake
@DavidalBarron
@primatage
@pagankinktress
@janewishon
@agent139
@johnjdelany
@martindave
@slilley
@aviraj
@Greatmatt
@Mnmissy
@ikepigott
@WarrenWhitlock
@WilliePA
@katjaib
@allapparel

Have a great Follow Friday!

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