Follow Friday: How To Find Great People To Follow on Twitter

Submitted by Richard Dewick on Fri, 30/01/2009 - 18:21.

Follow Friday is a great way to share top people to follow on Twitter. The brainchild of @micah who also has a blog on Startups and Entrepreneurship.

Instead of searching for people interested in the same topics as yourself #followfriday gives you the chance to find recommendations from friends who they think deserve your attention.

You can waste time following some people who from first glance looked like good tweeple.

Recommendations take away the pain and gives everyone the chance to give their friends a chance to interact with more people.

Follow Friday is a great addition to give everyone a way to find valuable people to follow.

The first follow friday

Give a short description of what someone tweets or if they're just a great member of the community simply big them up!

Here's my first #followfriday:

My first follow friday

What's your take on Follow Friday? Do you think it's a great idea or just a way to spam your followers?

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Great idea. I've started

Submitted by Nate on Fri, 20/02/2009 - 10:45.

Great idea. I've started using it and so have followers, have picked up some great people to potentially network with.

#followfriday Give your followers some air time

Submitted by Richard Dewick on Fri, 20/02/2009 - 13:59.

Cheers for the comment Nate, it's great isn't it, it speeds up the process of finding quality contacts no end. Like your blog btw :)

Fav.or.it is a scraper?

Submitted by Micah Baldwin on Fri, 20/02/2009 - 16:17.

Thanks for the nice comments Richard, but one point of clarification. It appears that fav.or.it scraped my post on #followfriday from my blog: http://learntoduck.com/micah/follow-friday which is disappointing.

When it started it was really just a way to say: "Hey, here are a couple of people I enjoy following, and I think you should too." Its interesting how its grown into this weekly event, that among the good intentioned has marketers looking to grow their follower base.

But isnt that how it always is? :)

A great weekly event

Submitted by Richard Dewick on Fri, 20/02/2009 - 17:00.

Hi Micah, #followfriday has indeed grown into a weekly event and more and more people, not just marketers, are now taking part, look what you've started!

Thanks for the heads up re the link, consider it repointed :)

Cheers

cool idea!

Submitted by Unreleased Games on Sun, 08/03/2009 - 20:40.

I really like this idea. I've seen a few people doing it but didn't understand what it was. Only just found this site and realised it's potential! @unreleasedgames

Great Idea, but never understood it first.

Submitted by Adam Parton on Fri, 10/04/2009 - 13:21.

I love the idea, but never really understood it until I got the link to here.

@AdzyUK

Good Incentive

Submitted by Gregg on Fri, 10/04/2009 - 15:06.

I think it is a nice incentive to remind people to tweet valuable stuff. Every friday I usually have a few people I want to recommend and I am excited to see who they recommend as well. The rest of the folks I follow...not so much.

Tweet Value

Submitted by Richard Dewick on Fri, 10/04/2009 - 15:17.

@Gregg I try to tweet valuable messages so if someone I don't know followfridays me I really appreciate it, but won't reciprocate until I get to know them a little better. Otherwise it just turns into tweetspam!

followfriday overload

Submitted by The Beautiful Kind on Sat, 18/04/2009 - 11:48.

I'm not a fan of followfriday, the big lists of names gums up my twitter page with useless information. I wish those who did do it would just pick three a week to recommend instead of ten. QUALITY over QUANTITY.

Thanks

Submitted by Anunturi gratuite on Tue, 21/04/2009 - 11:42.

This really is a great idea Richard. Thanks for the share.

Quality over Quantity

Submitted by Richard Dewick on Sat, 25/04/2009 - 17:31.

@The Beautiful Kind I totally agree, one week I blitzed my followfriday but on reflection felt it looked like spam and not properly thought through. I now only tweet two maybe three people at a time and give a keep description of what to expect. Quality over Quantity as you say.

Follow Friday looks cool.

Submitted by carseatsinfants.com on Wed, 20/05/2009 - 11:16.

Follow Friday looks cool. I'm definitely going to use it. It helps me to find good contacts. Thanks for sharing. By the way I love your blog. Keep up the good work. Cheers !

fantastic

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 22/05/2009 - 11:34.

this is fantastic article, just retweet for this page.

great work.

My experience

Submitted by Andrea, Ars Logo Design on Wed, 10/06/2009 - 01:23.

I've been using followfriday for a couple of weeks and think it's a clever, useful idea. Most of the given recommendations deserve to be reviewed. Congratulations for your success.

thanks for the post!

Submitted by Scott Hewitt on Fri, 24/07/2009 - 12:35.

I've been trying to find a sensible and concise post to tell me a little more about follow friday. At last I've got it! I feel as if I was a little behind things :)