Comments on: Lesson learned: #FollowFriday is a two-way street

If you want to add followers to your list on #FollowFriday, we have some tips that might help you do just that. But beware: there are some pitfalls to watch out for.

[-Oneota-]

Idea 6: Don't use Twitter at all and use your time for something more valuable.

Result: More free time and personal happiness.

[tomws]

+1

[gsimmonsonca]

Thanks for sharing Don... Good post.

[xpose]

#followdon , screw followfriday!

He was even able to get his friends twitter accounts in the article. I am sure they are very happy with you.

[stigmattaman]

You're a silly human being Don.

[TmDowling]

There are plenty of twitter ****** out there who only care about the number of followers they have, and who will return-follow anyone who follows them. Such a strategy isn't conducive to a meaningful use of or contribution to the twittersphere. By approaching #FollowFriday in the same spirit, you got added to follow lists, and may even have gained followers, but if those followers are discriminating they'll unfollow you when they discover that you weren't recommended on the basis of anything they care about. That may leave you with a long list of followers, but not followers whose opinions anyone else would respect.

You get recommended by real people, people who truly appreciate your tweets and believe their community of tweeps will benefit from following you, by providing value to the tweet-stream.

[TmDowling]

who'da thunk a common but not obscene synonym for prostitute would get 'cleaned up'? Wonder if the word itself will, too. If so, the censors leave the reader thinking what I wrote was something truly naughty, which it wasn't -- only insulting.

[nSeika]

"but once my followers realized what I was doing, more added me to their Follow Friday tweets than ever before."

So they only follow in hope of getting recommended (and exposed to more potential followers) and could care less about what you're actually talking of.

[hymanroth]

Very good!

So good in fact that if you take a peak at my Twitter Client Demo, I'll take at look at yours... [ http://lmframework.com/page.php?id=vd_twig_short_1 ]