Random musings from me!

I’m no twitter expert. I’m still learning the ropes and still have to occasionally ask what a certain acronym means but something I started doing several months back was this whole Follow Friday or #FF as it’s often known malarky.

I wanted to write a post to try to improve Follow Fridays as a standard. As I said I’m no expert but I feel that if you follow my advice Follow Fridays could be a whole lot more interesting and useful.

When I first started doing follow fridays I did what I see alot of people doing. One or two tweets filled with aload of @’s and the tweeters names. The trouble is now when I see that I don’t end up following anyone of the people. I then decided to do themed follow fridays so the people I was suggesting had a certain context. One week I might say games industry people, the next it might be people I’ve recently played on Xbox Live, the next it was game journalists I’ve had the fortune to meet on twitter.

Even then I feel there is a certain amount of going through the motions. So about a month ago I adopted a new approach and I feel if other people adopt this we’ll have a richer, fuller follow friday

What I do now is I focus on only doing about 3 – 5 follw fridays (as I don’t want to spam followers with loads of different #FFs) and I will either only put one or two tweeters in that tweet. I also make sure I say why I think people should follow that person or persons. So I might say,

“#FF Check out @TWEETER, they’re a member of the games industry and often have funny and witty tweets to say.”

I think you’ll agree with me that a) looks better and b) draws you in more than seeing -

“#FF @Randomguy1 @Randomguy2 @Randomguy3 @Randomguy4 @Randomguy5 @Randomgirl1 @Randomgirl2 @Randomgirl3 @Randomgirl4 @Randomgirl5″

I know it might be difficult because it’s hard to choose only a handful of people you want to suggest but I’m pretty sure when I tweet several recommendations in the way I suggest you’re more likely to get people following them than 2 or three tweets with a wall of suggested tweeters.

Anyway thats my suggestion. Obviously it’s a take it or leave thing but I suggest maybe just for this Friday if you do partake in the Follow Friday thing you give it a go and then ask the suggested if they got many more followers. It’s also a nice way to say what you think of certain tweeters (which they may appreciate )

Thanks for reading.

Tim

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