What is Follow Friday? Follow Friday is a day you can promote people on twitter. In a tweet, you include the hashtag #followfriday and the name or names of people you want people to follow with a reason why.
What’s a Hashtag?
The # symbol in front of followfriday is known as a hashtag, which on twitter represents a topic or room. In this case the topic is followfriday.
What people typically do is put the #followfriday in a tweet with a bunch of names to follow. While this is certainly okay, to be a bit more informative, include a reason or description would help people decide right away if they want to follow or not. Here’s an example:
“Here’s my #followfriday web designers – @webdesigner1, @websdesigner2, etc.”
That immediately helps me decide if I want to follow them because they’re web designers or I don’t want to follow any web designers.
TweetChat
Another way to do #followfriday is by using tweetchat.com. At TweetChat you enter #followfriday or any other topic or what’s known as a room and watch the discussion automatically drop down your TweetChat page. Here’s their description of the TweetChat service.
“TweetChat helps put your blinders on to the Twitter-sphere while you monitor and chat about one topic.
Each tweet you make automatically gets a hashtag added for the room you are in – no need to worry about hashtag typos…
The room auto-updates with new posts using the hashtag you are following – no need to reload…”
Check out this graph over at hashtags.org that shows the activity for #followfriday. An extremely popular event every Friday. Pretty darn cool.
Another way to watch users on #followfriday is by going to search.twitter.com and search on a topic that you’re interested in and place the # sign in front of it to see what happens.
Also, don’t forget to search on #followfridays as well. You’ll find more follow friday-ers.
There’s an official FollowFridays website at followfridays.com. You can watch #followfriday as it happens as well as tweet from there.
So grab some of your favorite tweeters and tell who and why to follow them. Have fun!! 
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