so, by now you've probably seen all the people on twitter tweeting out with the #followfriday hash tags on fridays and you may be asking yourself, what is this?
well, this is something that was started earlier this year by @micah on twitter as a way to show off his favorite tweeple (read @micah's original blog post on how and why he started it). mashable also has a good post on this called "follow friday, the anatomy of a twitter trend"
basically all your do is send out a tweet listing your favorite people to follow using their twitter handle (@[twitter username]) and put the #followfriday hashtag in the tweet. lately, I have enjoyed having a theme to my follow fridays like twittering couples and the people that I met at SXSW. but most people just put down their favorite people to follow.
some tweeple have started writing blog posts with more information on why the have chosen their #followfriday tweeple, like this one by sonny gill or this list by mashable. another interesting blog post is brian troy's "follow friday experiment".
and like everything else on twitter, their are tons of sites and apps to help you with #followfriday. my favorite one is the twitter tag project. all you have to do is go to the site and enter your twitter username and it will return the friends you should suggest for #followfriday. I'm not sure how it works, but I think it has to do with who you tweet with most often. one of the things that I like about it is that you don't have to put your twitter password in, it opens a new twitter window for you to send the tweet out in.
for more cool apps and sites for #followfriday, check out brian cray's blog post
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