#FollowFriday is like a great BIG party where you tell other Twitter users who you really like and recommend other people to follow.
There are two benefits: 1. you can recommend people that have helped you in some way 2. you can easily build your list of followers by following those recommended by others.
Using Twitter Hash Tags for Categories and Events
Twitter works with something called a # (hash tag), which is a character that is also referred to as a "number sign" or "pound sign", (unless you're British ;).
This symbol is used in front of one or more characters to represent "something", like a category or an event, like a conference.
One of the extremely popular Twitter hash tags is called "#FollowFriday" (used without the quotes) and it is used (almost always) on any Friday in any month.
Each Friday, tons of tweeps (people using "the system") use this hash tag in their tweets to recommend the names of other people that they really like to follow.
Here are some reasons to recommend someone for #FollowFriday:
You can put #FollowFriday anywhere in a tweet and it will be a part of this hash tag (category / event)!
Twitter Training Tips: When you recommend the names of others, be sure to include the @ symbol at the front of the name to make the user name "clickable". This means that when you click on the name, you'll see the Profile page of the person you clicked on. (Don't put a space between the @ sign and the person's name).
So, here are some examples of using this hash tag:
#FollowFriday @joeblow (great tweets) @marismith (excellent Facebook info) @jeffherring (article marketing guy)
In the example above, you can see a reason for the recommendation in the brackets at the right of each name.
This is a really nice way to promote the people you like talking to in Twitter. You can recommend one or more people at a time and you can provide more information (than shown above) on why you recommend someone - or you can just put in the person's name. You can recommend as many people as you want as long as you can fit all of them in the tweet! And you can do as many tweets like this as you want!
However, some people take objection to a long series of tweets with names in them and may unfollow you.
Twitter Training Tips: If you want to make multiple tweet recommendations, provide some other "types" of tweets in between, such as playing a song from blip.fm, putting in a quote of someone you admire, or retweeting a great tweet you've seen!
There are two benefits: 1. you can recommend people that have helped you in some way 2. you can easily build your list of followers by following those recommended by others.
Using Twitter Hash Tags for Categories and Events
Twitter works with something called a # (hash tag), which is a character that is also referred to as a "number sign" or "pound sign", (unless you're British ;).
This symbol is used in front of one or more characters to represent "something", like a category or an event, like a conference.
One of the extremely popular Twitter hash tags is called "#FollowFriday" (used without the quotes) and it is used (almost always) on any Friday in any month.
Each Friday, tons of tweeps (people using "the system") use this hash tag in their tweets to recommend the names of other people that they really like to follow.
Here are some reasons to recommend someone for #FollowFriday:
- they have unselfishly helped you in some way
- they have provided great information in their tweets
- they have provided useful information by providing you with links to web pages
- they're just a lot of fun to read
You can put #FollowFriday anywhere in a tweet and it will be a part of this hash tag (category / event)!
Twitter Training Tips: When you recommend the names of others, be sure to include the @ symbol at the front of the name to make the user name "clickable". This means that when you click on the name, you'll see the Profile page of the person you clicked on. (Don't put a space between the @ sign and the person's name).
So, here are some examples of using this hash tag:
#FollowFriday @joeblow (great tweets) @marismith (excellent Facebook info) @jeffherring (article marketing guy)
In the example above, you can see a reason for the recommendation in the brackets at the right of each name.
This is a really nice way to promote the people you like talking to in Twitter. You can recommend one or more people at a time and you can provide more information (than shown above) on why you recommend someone - or you can just put in the person's name. You can recommend as many people as you want as long as you can fit all of them in the tweet! And you can do as many tweets like this as you want!
However, some people take objection to a long series of tweets with names in them and may unfollow you.
Twitter Training Tips: If you want to make multiple tweet recommendations, provide some other "types" of tweets in between, such as playing a song from blip.fm, putting in a quote of someone you admire, or retweeting a great tweet you've seen!
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From Clyde Boom - With 20+ years of Software Training Successes For Thousands! - Get Easy, self-paced Twitter training - In Plain English!
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From Clyde Boom - With 20+ years of Software Training Successes For Thousands! - Get Easy, self-paced Twitter training - In Plain English!
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