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- #FollowFriday on Twitter Is Like Flowers at a Funeral
Okay, I admit that the title is a little morbid and maybe a bit extreme, but if you’ll bear with me I think you will see my point.
Have you ever been to a funeral and noticed that the gathering is comprised of a lot of people who haven’t seen each other in a long time (maybe since the last funeral)? When the service starts there is usually a time where friends of the deceased are allowed to share their thoughts about this person they were close to. Some will share precious memories and stories. Others will tell the mourners how great this person was when they were alive. And at almost every funeral I’ve been to, someone will say, “Why do we wait until someone dies to send them flowers or to say nice things about them?”
- #FollowFriday Again? Really? (Plus 8 More People I Think You Should Follow And Why)
I mean no disrespect to all of the amazing people who have recommended me on this and past Fridays. To the contrary, I am very flattered. I don’t just say that out of false humility. It truly floors me that almost 6,000 people have determined that what I put out on my Twitter updates is worth their time. I don’t look at it flippantly because I myself don’t just follow anyone. I choose people who I believe add value to my Twitter stream and my life, and if over time I change my mind, I unfollow them. In my opinion, to be followed by ANY amount of people is an honor. And a responsibility, I am learning.
So I want to make it clear that I am very grateful – as I’m sure everyone who gets recommended on Twitter’s #FollowFriday lists – to those that deem me worthy.
But have you noticed that more and more people are beginning to shy away from the massive, meaningless lists of reasonless recommendations that flood the Twitter stream at the end of each week? I have. I am starting to see many others recognize the #FF noise for what it is and move into the realm of giving more detailed explanations of people they recommend to others, much like what I have been doing for a few months now. I didn’t start it, but I certainly want to continue encouraging others to do it. Yes, it takes a bit more time than just clicking a few buttons and typing #FF. But if you REALLY want to recommend people to your followers, aren’t they worth the extra time?
- 8 People I Think You Should Follow On Twitter and Why
If you’ve followed my blog at all you have come to know my feelings about #FollowFriday on Twitter. If this is your first time here I have several posts explaining why I prefer to provide a more detailed explanation of why I am recommending people for you to follow. Please take a minute to read them if you can.
The bottom line for me is that I really enjoy interacting and sharing with the people I follow on Twitter, for many different reasons. If I just lumped them all into a list and said ‘Follow them’ I wouldn’t be doing them or you a service. I’d rather invite you to hear a little bit about why I follow each of them and make more informed decision for yourself.
So here are this week’s recommendations from me to you. Please check out the previous weeks’ too, because they are great people who I know you would enjot getting to know if you don’t already.
The bottom line for me is that I really enjoy interacting and sharing with the people I follow on Twitter, for many different reasons. If I just lumped them all into a list and said ‘Follow them’ I wouldn’t be doing them or you a service. I’d rather invite you to hear a little bit about why I follow each of them and make more informed decision for yourself.
So here are this week’s recommendations from me to you. Please check out the previous weeks’ too, because they are great people who I know you would enjot getting to know if you don’t already.
- 10 More People I Follow On Twitter That You Should Too – And Why
It’s that time again. Friday. A day that in every other context is glorious. It’s the end of the week! The start of the weekend! Let the fun begin!
Except on Twitter. At least for me. If you’ve been following me on Twitter or read any of my previous Friday blog posts, you already know what [...]
- 10 More People I Follow On Twitter And Why You Should Too
Here are this week’s recommendations from me of really great people I follow on Twitter. In case you haven’t heard, I have chosen to bypass the whole #FollowFriday mess and use this space to make more detailed recommendations each week. I also make a point of recommending each of these people to Mr. Tweet. I would encourage you to do the same for people you value.
- 10 People I Follow On Twitter and Why I Think You Should Follow Them Too
I hope that Brian Yerkes will forgive my plagiarizing of his title from his blog post “5 People I Follow On Twitter and Why“. I have been writing these weekly recommendations for a few weeks now and when I saw his title I thought it was a perfect way to encourage people to read the contents of the post, like a good title should. So hats off to you, Brian, for not only having a cool first name but also a smart blog post title. Forgive me if I have offended in any way.
- My Weekly Recommendations of GREAT People To Follow On Twitter – 080709
Each week I try to recommend ten more people that I follow on Twitter with an explanation about WHY I am encouraging you to discover the value I have found in these wonderful people. I have also tried to give an accompanying article that follows or discusses something related to the now infamous #FollowFriday phenomenon on Twitter.
But it is now 8:40 pm (EST) on Friday night and there is not much time to keep up the article tradition. So rather than try to throw something together to give the appearance of an article, I decided it’s most important to share the recommendations.
- How To Use #MrTweet Instead of #FollowFriday + My Weekly Recommendations
It’s Friday again, and the hordes of #FollowFriday lists are filling up the Twitter stream once more. Every Friday for the past several weeks I have written a Follow Friday related post to share my thoughts and insights into this social media phenomenon, and I have started my own tradition of recommending at least 10 people here with a more detailed explanation of why I follow them in the hopes that you would follow them too and discover the value I have in each of them. At the end of each of these posts I have said that if you desire to recommend me to others on Twitter I would greatly appreciate you using the website known as “Mr. Tweet” to express yourself. I have had quite a few people say they found me through Mr. Tweet, which is even more encouraging because it means they have made a somewhat educated decision to follow me by reading my profile and recommendations on the website, rather than randomly clicking on one of countless lists of names that provide no explanation for the recommendation.
So this week I wanted to give the uninitiated a more detailed look at some of the many features Mr. Tweet offers and help you to see how the benefits of using this tool far outweigh the anonymous Follow Friday recommendation.
- How Twitter Reminded Us That People – Not Numbers – Are What Matter + My Weekly Recommendations
This morning as I was going through my routine of catching up on RSS feeds and all the latest design, social media and tech news, I came across the story from Mashable that explained how Twitter decided to clean up spam and bot accounts last night. The article revealed how the result for most Twitter users would be a drop in follower count. Like most who read it, I quickly put down my coffee and checked my own statistics. I have to admit I was shocked and even disappointed to see that overnight I dropped from over 5,200 followers down to the 4,700 range! My initial frustration evaporated quickly though, when I thought about the fact that the 500 or so accounts that had been deleted from my numbers were actually programs or autofollows or other garbage that truly were not of any interest to me anyway. This got me thinking yet again about the whole numbers game most of us tend to get caught up in with our social media accounts and how we like to achieve milestones and statistics and such.
- How I Keep Up With The Thousands I Follow on Twitter + My Weekly Recommendations of People to Follow
This morning as I was going through my ritual email and Twitter catchups, I came across a questions from a new friend on Twitter named Liz Stroud (@liz2point0). Liz asked: “How do you keep up with thousands of people to follow??? Seiously!” So I thought, why not answer the question in today’s #FollowFriday blog post along with my weekly recommendations of people to follow on Twitter.
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