One of the most useful tool for me to get the word out about my blog is twitter. Every Friday is something labeled Friday Follow (in the dad blog world its Fatherhood Follow/Fatherhood Friday) in short its #FF [Link].
I post three lists: the dads, the moms, and the brands/groups/others. Theses are getting to be longer and longer as I’ve been starting to diageset more and more information from the twitter stream. When I started with 200 followings I found it a little tough I’m now following over 1,000 mom/dad twitters/bloggers. I’m reading as much content that I can and find it to be nearly as easy (or hard) as following 200 when I first started.
I’m usually put in a few lists and I do see ten plus new followers on Fridays but sometimes I gain more on a random Tuesday. So the question tonight is that is Friday Follow meaningless? Have we lost the meaning? Should there be a limit say one or two amazing people? Conan O’Brien followed his first person today after a few hours she had about seven thousand others, now that’s the power to direct traffic.
At web 2.0 expo there was a discussion about how people are just like animals that we move in herds or packs. There was a great video that showed people moving and acting like a herd. I now present to you the crazy guy dancing video…
Let me know your thoughts on friday follow, do you think its still plays a part in growing or directing the audience?
I personally thing it matters to show your friends you think they are cool. I actually follow many new parent bloggers from #FF.
Fatherhood Friday is the only FF i am in at this time, but I seam to not get any mentions there. even with that, and the lack of advertising i do some how I end up with 183 followers. still can't figure that one out.
I pickup a ton of new dad twitters/bloggers because of tweets that include me and them in the reply but not directly relating to #FF
I do it purely to hype up other dads in the hope that they'll do the same to me. Whether anyone else actually notices is a whole different kettle of fish! I'm @benspex, by the way (shameless plug).
Welcome to TMC! Glad you will be a part of it and represent the Theta Dad's. 😉
Honestly for me, I don't care about follow Friday. I LOVE IT when someone tells someone else to follow me. I acknowledge that they took time to think about me. BUT i don't personally do it. And unless someone I'm close to says “hey, follow this person. she's new to twitter and yadda yadda” then I usually don't even go along with the people I'm told to follow. I probably sound like a huge bitch too, now. HAH. I just don't like my stream cluttered. If I'm following someone, it's because something they said interested me or i thought they were cool. Not because someone told me to follow them, you know?
I do use Follow Fridays as a means to find other people, but I prefer when people list them, or concentrate on giving specific reasons that they follow people.
It's nicer, I think, to get one detailed follow friday in which someone explains WHY they like you, attributes that keep them coming back, etc.
Admittedly, however, I don't always have time to do that.
I think it's a nice thing, and it can help people get followers with similar interests. 🙂
I couldn't keep up with all the eco-monday/friday follow stuff myself. Was taking time away from actually, you know, real work…
Perhaps you are right, but for those of us just starting out its not a prehistoric tool. I gain more and more of my target followers on friday then any other day that still holds true for the little guy Id say.
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