Will Twitter Lists Kill #FollowFriday?

32 Points

Twitter Lists are officially up and running - although they don't seem to be taking off as quickly as Twitter might have hoped. The concept, as we've blogged about recently, is pretty straightforward - you can now create "lists" of Twitter people, and other Twitter users can choose to simply follow those lists, instead of individually following people on those lists.

Making the Most of Follow Friday on Twitter

7 Points

Follow Friday is one of my favorite things about Twitter.  I suppose I’m lucky in that the people whom I follow often suggest tweeple who are ridiculously skilled at squeezing some interesting stuff into the 140-character limit.  And when that fails, I can always spend the end of the work week clicking the #FollowFriday link in the Trending Topics sidebar until I find someone who piques my interest.  Besides, I’m much more likely to find someone I’d like to stalk through a random Follow Friday hash tag than I am to see someone suggested as a friend on Facebook whom I wan

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Twitter Tips - How to do a Good FollowFriday

60 Points

It's Friday again. On Twitter, that means that it's the beginning of another #FollowFriday - one of Twitter's all-time hottest hashtags and one of the microblogging platform's best cross-promotion tools. Never experienced one yet? Here's how it works. On Friday, active twitterers get on and send out some Tweets where they list (using @reply syntax) the people that they think their Twitter followers might be interested in.

It's a simple concept, but it has a pretty powerful effect. If you produce good content during the week, you're likely to end up on a #FollowFriday list, and that...