What is Follow Friday on Twitter

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Follow Friday is a twitter meme that is used to call attention to followers that they should check out and follow the people you are highlighting or recommending. Tagging a tweet with #followfriday
 will allow it to be searched for and everyone who tags the same way can follow their own specific tweets and form a group conversation. Once engaged in a group if you want to call attention to an article, post or tweet you can simply Re-tweet something and add #followfriday to bring everyone's attention to it.

Often when I do my Random Twitter poetry game, on Friday to get more participants to send me words I will tag my call for random words with FollowFriday so more people will play the game and see the poem that I have crafted based on random twitter words. It also allows people to see what the most popular discussions are taking place on a Friday, which is typically a less busy work day so more people spend time chatting on twitter than on other week days.

Many people feel that FollowFriday is exclusive and excludes people, but you can choose to participate anytime merely by tagging one of your tweets you wish to share. Follow Friday is one of many ways to try and draw in a reading crowd to get more people to notice what you are saying and bring people to draw attention to the tweets they wish to stand out more than others.

Many people new to Twitter can use #FollowFriday to find out who some of the most active and highly recommended people are to follow, and for people more experienced they can recommend new and upcoming twitter members who are showing very active in the community to help get them a boost in followers.

Published by Justin Germino
IT Security Expert who is a passionate blogger, poet and writer in his spare time. I enjoy writing my opinions on everything from movies, products and thoughts on parenting, politics and news. You can reach...  View profile
  
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This is the best use of #FF / #FollowFriday so far: (photo of twitter graffiti) http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2763/4503056433_5ecef5f586_b.jpg Spotted in New York City..ahhaa
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You are right, the first sentence was a run-on sentence, I have edited the article, thanks for the feedback.
Thanks for your descriptive article explaining FF, however your very first line explaining it makes no sense! "Follow Friday is a twitter meme that is used to call attention and indicate that your followers should check out and be a part of a conversation or read posts by someone who is participating in follow Friday." I got all the way to "by someone" okay, then the last bit floored me. Do you see what I mean? It's a circular description. I appreciate that Follow Friday itself doesn't seem to make sense - it sounds like something people just created on the hoof and developed without any clear aim or point. But you might want to tweak that first sentence if you don't want your article confuse readers at first.
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Okay, this clears up a few questions for me, thanks. I love it... :o)
Good information. Follow Friday is fun.
Great follow friday info!
wow! I didnt know that! Although I have been an active member of twitter for the last 6 months I have never heard about this, thank you for sharing..
gave this article a tweet so that others can know too :D
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