Today is Friday, which means Follow Friday is in full effect on Twitter. The Follow Friday hashtag (I prefer using #FF to save characters) is a weekly meme on Twitter where users suggest other accounts to follow. I’ve been exposed to many informative and entertaining new people on Twitter by monitoring mentions throughout the day.
One troubling trend I’ve been keeping tabs on, and doing my best to nip in the bud, is people tweeting long lists of usernames without an explanation of who they are or why we should follow them. A better way to participate is to pick one or two people you want to recommend, and use your remaining 130 characters or so to tell us WHY we should follow them.
For instance, my #FF recommendation this week is @jpgardner for the great work he’s done on the new AMC Theatres website and Facebook fan page. That’s 129 characters and clear insight into why I think he is worth following.
Twitter is all about enabling conversations, so let’s hope we see less talk and more interaction on Fridays in 2010.