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Re: #FollowFriday: The Anatomy of a Twitter Trend

Martin Roche — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:27:22 -0000

Follow Fridays is great follow @mrsterile Swine Flu Prevention

Re: #FollowFriday: The Anatomy of a Twitter Trend

ertykills — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:17:30 -0000

YAY Follow Friday!

Re: #FollowFriday: The Anatomy of a Twitter Trend

Andrea Kuhn — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:45:38 -0000

#FollowFriday is a great concept and I'll be sure to support it on a weekly basis.

Re: #FollowFriday: The Anatomy of a Twitter Trend

Name — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:52:24 -0000

I don't understand "Follow Friday"? Why would you follow some random person recommended by a stranger? And why would you use the hashtag #followfriday anyway? Wouldn't you just tweet "Follow my mate @PhilSmith" ?

Can anyone explain?

Re: #FollowFriday: The Anatomy of a Twitter Trend

Dennison Uy — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:06:41 -0000

I always felt that it was just a bunch of people spamming some those keywords to create a “follow train” and eventually became very popular.

Re: #FollowFriday: The Anatomy of a Twitter Trend

Nail Arts Designer — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:29:12 -0000

Great post, really help me alot. Thanks.

Cheers,
gadgettechblog.com

Re: #FollowFriday: The Anatomy of a Twitter Trend

aktarian — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:19:03 -0000

Is it OK to #ff somebody who has set their profile on private? I figure they did it because they want to limit the number of followers and/or want to impose some sort of filter on who follows them. while #ffing them doesn't remove that they'll get bunch of new requests, which they might not like.

for the record I don't do it but am interested in what other people think.

Re: #FollowFriday: The Anatomy of a Twitter Trend

Steph Love — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 13:03:27 -0000

I have a problem with #FollowFridays and the way it plays out. I don't understand how someone can recommend that I follow someone that they are not following. Why should I follow if you won't follow? I understand the science of camraderie and enjoy the fact that #FollowFridays engage people to interact, but, find myself dissappointed in the fake recommendations often given to just throw a random tweet out into the Twitterspjere. I wrote a more detailed post title "The Untold Truth About #FollowFriday" on my Good Tweeple Community site. Feel free to check it out at http://goodtweeple.ning.com...

Re: #FollowFriday: The Anatomy of a Twitter Trend

JAVAJ9 — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:10:42 -0000

I really enjoy #followfridays ... The thing, however, I'm confused about is why is "Follow Friday" the trending topic instead? I definitely prefer #followfriday because the tweets seem more serious. Let's get #followfriday up the top next week!

Re: #FollowFriday: The Anatomy of a Twitter Trend

Lanadakini — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:22:57 -0000

can anyone give me a simple guide to how friday follow works , i would love to recommend some of you, but bit confused?

Re: #FollowFriday: The Anatomy of a Twitter Trend

sylwia presley — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:30:21 -0000

UK: #ecomonday, #charitytuesday
Poland: #tlustyczwartek (which is basically Polish version of Follow Friday - but moved to Thursday for some reason)

Re: #FollowFriday: The Anatomy of a Twitter Trend

Ame — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:54:24 -0000

Taking cyber-stalking to a whole new level of creepiness!

Re: #FollowFriday: The Anatomy of a Twitter Trend

Ame — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:16:05 -0000

Talking cyber-stalking to a whole new level of creepiness!

Re: #FollowFriday: The Anatomy of a Twitter Trend

Tillman — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:33:31 -0000

He thanks for instructions. Also thanks for picture at WordCampChicago.

Re: #FollowFriday: The Anatomy of a Twitter Trend

@stevecs — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:18:00 -0000

It was a great idea and I have seen many ideas spawn from it. I am a West Ham United fan and one night a fellow hammers fan suggested #westhamwednesday and since then a huge following has built up and every week more and more Hammers fans have signed up. And not just from the UK, we now have fans from across the globe following. #westhamwednesday now even has it's own website that was set up this week by another west Ham Fan. so it is definitely a great way to meet like minded individuals

Re: #FollowFriday: The Anatomy of a Twitter Trend

Andy Claremont — Fri, 22 May 2009 16:22:53 -0000

#FollowFriday is a trend that has snowballed into being useless spam. With each additional name added to a #FollowFriday tweet, the less value that update has as a whole. It becomes noise with no substance.

Cut down your recommendations to a couple of names and give your followers justification for the recommendation. Spread out your recommendations over several days.

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Re: #FollowFriday: The Anatomy of a Twitter Trend

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Re: #FollowFriday: The Anatomy of a Twitter Trend

Whitney — Wed, 20 May 2009 09:14:21 -0000

I have heard this tale before and love it but how do OTHER random #hashtags get started and do you have to have 25K followers to do so? (for example right now its M&S - Marks & Spencer - really??)
@wald12

Re: #FollowFriday: The Anatomy of a Twitter Trend

gary — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:56:09 -0000

Thank you so much Micah Baldwin. I've been so lost until your article and I'm glad to know what #followfriday is and what it represents. I appreciate you taking the time to write it.

Re: #FollowFriday: The Anatomy of a Twitter Trend

Amputatoes — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:02:54 -0000

#followfriday has spawned #punday in addition to #woofwednesday. #punday is a Sunday pun, @DougBenson has had a few good ones, always fun to read.

Re: #FollowFriday: The Anatomy of a Twitter Trend

Steen Seo Öhman — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:47:41 -0000

Great post

As new to Twitter it took me a while before I understood follow friday. But the concept is very nice, and ads to the viral nature of Twitter.

Re: #FollowFriday: The Anatomy of a Twitter Trend

Twittergator — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:20:51 -0000

Taking #followfriday beyond Friday.
I have actually started using #followfriday to add value to my bio via my favorites, and encourage others to do the same. See how at http://ow.ly/1zy6

Also, your #followfriday tweets are way more helpful and have greater influence if you avoid posting long lists of usernames. Instead, include a reason why tweople should follow your recommendations.

Re: #FollowFriday: The Anatomy of a Twitter Trend

sharon — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:42:23 -0000

thanks for this - love the way this got started and the awesome organic growth its taken off on...

question: what is "tweepletuesday" ?

~ Sharon @growinggold

Re: #FollowFriday: The Anatomy of a Twitter Trend

Lars Behrenroth — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:20:33 -0000

it's all about @unfollowtuesday now :) .. the balance has to be restored

Re: #FollowFriday: The Anatomy of a Twitter Trend

Rob Jacobs — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:45:31 -0000

This article was a great read! I work on the development team for FlyFi Music Discovery and recommend anyone who wants to help start the official "Free Music Friday" trend on Twitter to start following us using either:

@freemusicfriday

@flyfimusic

Our site currently has a large email news letter following with our Free Music Friday offering. We offer a mix of 15 different Legal DRM-Free Mp3's every week. You can get the letter in your inbox by making an account with us, but a Twitter following would be awesome!!!