Courtesy Twitter.com/hashtags
One of the most impressive Twitter “traditions”, and Twitter Strategies for adding followers, is an online meetup called #FollowFriday. In the spirit of giving, Twitterers have set aside Fridays as a day where they can recommend people in their network to other Twitterers as people worth following. Micah Baldwin the creator of #followfridays had no idea how big his online “meetup” and recognition party would become–a growing trend
#FollowFriday: How’s It Work?
The Hashtags aka pound sign before a word or set of words were created as:
- “Hashtags were developed as a means to create ”groupings” on Twitter without having to change the basic service”
- “A community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets”
#Followfriday is one example of a hashtag here are a few more:
- #Domus: Used by Domus Consulting Group for online training purposes as a place to gather webinar attendees
- #SanDiegoFires: Nate Ritter, the inventor of hashtags, used this method to mark his tweet updates on the San Diego Fires
Twitter Strategies: #Followfriday
- Mine Favorites: review your favorites section to find people who have added the most valuable links that you have saved
- List Favorites: write a list of people you have added into your Favorites section who give the most value for you
- Groups: write your #Followfriday messages with flair. Take a group of people from the same niche, industry, or category and recognize them together.Example: “Fantastic new thought social media strategiests worth following @pkitano @peterkim @Webguild @dannybrown @timoreilly #followfriday”
- Recommendations: during your #Followfriday efforts use a combination of messages. Write three #followfriday messages then create a Mr.Tweet recommendation. Note: make sure to check the auto tweet option on your Mr.Tweet recommendation so it shows up in your tweet stream
