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Twitter List Evolution of #FollowFriday

When it first started, I use to pay close attention to the recommendations that came out of Follow Friday on Twitter.  In it’s current form however, it’s just become noise.  When I see a tweet that has the hashtag and just a bunch of names, I completely ignore it. If this is all that someone wants to do, they should just create a weekly Twitter List.  It’s cleaner and gives people who actually want to follow new people this way a single-click option to do so.

The real value in Follow Friday is selecting a small group of people you want to recommend to your followers and share a little something about why they should.  Do they share interesting links on certain topics?  Are they funny? Do they have specialized knowledge they share with the community?  Something other than just a name. I make no claim to having this down pat, but I try to practice what I preach.

At some point I hope that more people start doing this (a Mashable rewrite on Follow Friday would help <g>) so that I can once again look forward to Follow Friday and not dread the name blasts in my twitter stream.

Abbas Haider Ali.