Follow Friday

by on 30. Apr, 2009 in Marketing and Promotion

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about Follow Friday.  Just to recap, Follow Friday is a movement that started on Twitter in January by @micah.  The way it works is that you send a tweetto your followers and recommend to them some people that they should be following.  I do not want into how it works on this post, I instead want to offer a bit of commentary.  I have been reading a lot of posts about this lately and have seen an unfollow friday campaign begin.  I want to go on record as saying that I support Follow Friday100%.  To me it is the epitome of what social networking is all about and what it should be.  This is networking in its purest form.  To me it is like a cocktail party where there are hundreds of people.  You may know only ten people, and one of your friends may know ten other people and he introduces you to them.  Now you know twenty people at the party.  Chances are that if you are friends with that guy then you will probably hit it off with his other friends.  As a blogger trying to build a brand, the more people I can meet and interact with the better.  The reality is that most people agree to me.  Whether you like it or not the Follow Friday hash tag is one of the most popular hash tags on Twitter.  This Friday in all likelihood there will be over 200,000 tweets that have the tag. I hope at least a couple have the @tycoonblogger attached to them. :-)

There is a real cool new tool for tracking your Follow Friday stats.  It is called TopFollowFriday.com and you can see who endorses you and who you have endorsed.  I have had 9 endorsements so far!

Lets help each other out with this.  I will be checking to see if anyone endorses me on Fridays and I will certainly return the favor.

@TycoonBlogger

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3 Responses to “Follow Friday”

  1. dankeller 01. May, 2009 at 7:59 pm #

    FYI, I just started a group at blog catalog called Follow Friday. My thought is that we could mutually endorse each other and that way help grow our Twitter follower base. The good part is since most peple who read/visit my blog are bloggers, the audience will be very similar. Here is a link http://www.blogcatalog.com/group/follow-friday

  2. Ben Barden 30. Apr, 2009 at 11:56 pm #

    I like the idea, but not the way it’s done. My views are in the post I linked to above. In summary, it is better to recommend one person and say why, than simply list a long line of names that will invariably get lost in the mix of all the other recommendations.

    Ben Barden’s last blog post..Using Google Reader to organise your feeds

  3. dankeller 01. May, 2009 at 10:50 am #

    @Ben Barden- I completely agree with you. I hate seeing a string of names. I think this is the primary reason why some are against Follow Friday. Hopefully, if we keep talking about it, they will change their ways.