Follow Friday (aka #followfriday or #ff) is a great way to give a public shout out to people who you know, do business with, or simply enjoy their work, blog posts or tweets.
A problem with Follow Friday is that it happens on, well, Friday, when you’re fried by a long week of work. Unless you are disciplined, thinking about who you want to put on your Follow Friday list can be a challenge.
For those of you who fall into this camp, an interest short-cut is The Twitter Tag Project’s Follow Friday! service, which automatically generates a #followfriday tweet that contains people. The service works by scanning the last 200 tweets of your friends, and showcasing your most active friends. It generates 15 different tweets, which gives you lots of options, as well as some flexibility to change or remove names.
Here’s what it came up for me:
Verdict: Like anything that’s automated, the Follow Friday project isn’t perfect but it’s a pretty useful tool for anyone who wants to do a #followfriday but doesn’t have the time or the energy.
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Hi Mark,
Regular reader of your blogs. I found this comment interesting: "it’s a pretty useful tool for anyone who wants to do a #followfriday but doesn’t have the time or the energy."
Surely, if someone doesn't have the "time and energy" to highlight someone as interesting, then they're not really doing it in the right spirit?
We should make time, 5 minutes, to manually type in a #ff as if we mean it.
Cheers,
@johncarson
John,
I agree that spend a few minutes to "manually" do a #followfriday is a much better and authentic way to go. Personally, I've just let Follow Friday slip on by rather than trying to mail something in. Thanks for reading!
Mark
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