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The Problems of Follow Friday Seen From Chris
Chris Brogan’s reason is slightly different and provides a recommendation for improvement. Chris Brogan provided a brief biography of Follow Friday and the creator Micah Baldwin. According to Brogan (and confirmed in other bloggers’ posts throughout the blogosphere), Follow Friday was created by Micah Baldwin to introduce new social media types to various online communities. Follow Friday enabled the newest social media convert to learn more about the “influencers” in certain markets. In other words, if Chris Brogan submitted a Follow Friday tweet, these people were leaders and influencers because of Brogan’s seal-of-approval. (Brogan knows that his approval cares weight and rightfully so. He has worked hard to deserve his success). Chris Brogan did not harp on the demise and interruption that Follow Friday has brought upon the Twitterverse like Voss, but provided a solid recommendation of turning Follow Friday into something positive.
The Possibilities of Follow Friday
I agree with the rant and the recommendation, but will provide something more. Thus, I am going to present a new format of Follow Friday. Chris Brogan suggested that everyone create a post on your blog with the Follow Friday individuals you recommend for the week. List the individuals’ Twitter id and why they are important to you. Then, share your link with the Twitterverse.
Why do this?
1. Cleans up Twitter. The drop in Follow Friday notifications will greatly increase the work flow and through-put of ideas in the Twitterverse. Minimal distractions will enable greater collaboration among individuals.
2. Iinsight into why people are important. Gone are the days of mass media marketing. Very few people attract followers because their name was listed on a tweet. People follow individuals because they matter, they make changes, they are a Linchpin. Become a Linchpin, attract Linchpins and follow Linchpins.
3. Link love to you and these people. Google, Yahoo and Bing incorporate Twitter feeds into their search algorithms. The combination of Twitter ids and blog traffic makes for a nice bump in a website’s search rank. The long-tail power of this process could be huge too.
My New Follow Friday Format
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Andy, thanks for the mention in your blog post. I’ve put a link in my post to yours. I dont know if you saw that shorty after I did an update on making lists for Follow Friday as a resolution, many people have been doing. Thanks for the positive writeup. I really like chatting with my peeps but many times even when I shoot out stuff on Friday no one sees it in the mix. Many people just turn Twitter off on Friday. Overall my study proved very few people use the Tweets info and the mass who send them think they are used by the majority. We changed many peoples minds when they realized its a very slim group of people that use the data. You would be better to follow people off of their lists.
Many people also thought it was a game to add followers and we got many people to actually research the results and found it does very little in adding followers.
As far as I feel, if people want to thank me with a recommendation – the Retweet of something smart I say, is the best endorsement and referral to your friends.
Thanks!
Chris Voss
…Oh, and that ban site, I didnt start it, just for the record. I found it on the internet already going. LOL.
I agree. The retweet is the most positive recommendation (in the short term). I agree that a blog post listing recommended tweeps and incorporating the list feature that Rebecca Woodhead recommended are two features I will now use (for the long term).
Thanks again for presenting this discussion, Chris.
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