Comments on: Why I’m Skipping #FollowFriday this Week

By: #followfriday kan vara så bra | Niclas Strandh digitalPR

#followfriday kan vara så bra | Niclas Strandh digitalPR — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:09:07 +0000

[...] jag kan nu också känna att det ibland kan verka som ett race för att själv få en rekommendation från de som man rekommenderar. Eller så är det helt enkelt så att den svenska twittersfären [...]

By: Cheryl Ayres

Cheryl Ayres — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:57:38 +0000

This is exactly why I havent followed that phenom. Thanks for confirming in print. I’m all for quality over quantity.

By: Károly Domonyi

Károly Domonyi — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:53:28 +0000

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By: Trish

Trish — Sat, 09 May 2009 12:36:55 +0000

I have been doing the #1followfriday for a couple weeks and love it. You just choose the one person you recommend and write a bit about why people should follow that person. Quality over quantity. You can also search #1followfriday to get all the good, detailed recommendations you need.

@Trish_HR

By: Denver SEO

Denver SEO — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:03:02 +0000

The Follow Friday phenomenon has grown into a monster. The Twitter stream is littered with people just recommending too many people, and this creates nothing but noise.

I’m all for the idea of FF’s with reasons. Cut it down to a few people each week and it will add value to the conversation, not take it away. I’ve avoided the FF for a month now, for this reason alone.

I did recommend a few today, but that’s all. No more than 5 per week is my new rule.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 08 May 2009 13:32:03 +0000

I couldn’t agree more. When it becomes a numbers game, all meaning behind the recommendation is lost. I am a small-time user with very few followers, and maybe that’s ok. Happy ‘Regular Friday’!

By: Ching Ya

Ching Ya — Fri, 08 May 2009 12:27:52 +0000

When the following list is growing, I tend to stop awhile and start mixing with the new friends and see how the networking goes. I’d love to recommend everyone but it’s better to start knowing before somebody mad of me spamming them for numerous no-reasons suggestions.

Love this week’s advice by @shellykramer to add reasons to our FF recommendations. Not just FF, perhaps it could be done whenever we feel like it. Appreciation is a good virtue, and shouldn’t be fixed just for 1 day. Supporting the new trend of recommendations+with reasons.

@wchingya
Social Media/Blogging

By: EAbramson

EAbramson — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:20:11 +0000

I think the idea of #FollowFriday is great. Some people would like more followers, which is what the process has turned into, but some tweeters are really interesting people with lives and intelligence that are worth recommending. Twitter has some great qualities, #FollowFiday being one of them. Thank @Micah. I do hear a tinge of obligation to the task in you writing; I too yearn for a break from weeding through the good, the bad, and the funny, the weary, the dreary, and the often recommending the same good ol’ bunch that I always do. Maybe once a month, after I really get the urge to say “hey I’m folloing this cool person and you should too”!

By: Evie

Evie — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:18:08 +0000

YAY!!! @2emc incase QuickRant doesn’t work LOL!!! I am with you. #FollowFriday ?

Great!!!

You recommend to your friends a follow (or FOLLOWS) but WHY??? {Y}

We have to remove the {Y}s to get to {O}s {Y}{O}ur (your)(-: which JUST brings right back to U again

LOL!!! Sometimes ya feel like a nut ~ other times ya just want to see what Evie is up to …

By: Gordie Rogers

Gordie Rogers — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:16:43 +0000

What a coincidence. I decided last week to lay off the #followfriday craze for a few weeks to do my part to reduce the noise on Twitter streams. Today, I decided to unfollow approximately 500 people and will limit the number I follow to 500.