That #follow friday thing (or #FF following friends on funky fibre fridays)

Jan.15, 2011

I am curious.

If I have time I try to check the #FF suggestions I receive and I have followed those suggested tweeters that are of specific interest to me either because they work in the fibre field – my big passion; or the writing might be very interesting, the tweeter might throw out new ideas, or I am simply curious about something I had not considered before.

BUT does it really work for anyone the way it seems intended – the following of suggestions I mean? I don’t think I have been followed from a #FF suggestion. Maybe I am just not interesting enough; or, maybe most tweeters don’t really look at the suggestions. Now if the later is true then #FF is a time waster, if the former is true I have to up my game or stop tweeting.

The trouble is tweeting is fun, it can be interesting to fit a rave into 140 characters, the tweets I read are often interesting. I am now in conversation with tweeters whose company I enjoy and I am discovering new information all the time.

Twitter can also be a huge time filler or waster depending on your point of view.

So what to do?

For now I shall continue with #FF or some form of it. I will check the follow friday rankings even though since I started to do that I have found that I am not being followed based on #ff recommendations of the wonderful tweeters out there.

Check here if you want to look at Follow Friday helper and rankings yourself.

BUT it might also drop off my weekly to do list simply because of time. We’ll see

:#ff, follow friday, Follow friday ranking, tweeters, twitter

1 Comment for this entry

Jackie L.
January 16th, 2011 on 8:06 am
I have followed people because of #FF. Here’s my personal non-scientific method. If I’m in a #FF list, I look at who else made the list. If it’s mostly fibery people, I click on the names I don’t recognize. Those that I’m not already following, I read their profile and a few to see if they’re someone I should be following. Do they seem friendly? Do they look like potential friends or customers? Do they tweet interesting things? If yes, then I follow them. I may not do that every week, but I do try to pay attention.

Do I look at EVERY #FF recommendation that shows up on my timeline? No way. I follow way too many varied people to pay attention to all of them. But if I’ve made someone’s #FF list, then they’re probably someone I have chatted with and respect. If the others recommended are knitters, we probably have something in common. And I go from there. But I certainly don’t spend a lot of time on it.

I don’t compose my own #FF list often, but when I do, it’s often those who have recommended me and those I’ve chatted with extensively recently. I get a steady stream of new followers. It doesn’t seem concentrated on Fridays, but it’s very possible that they trickle in throughout the week. Who knows?