050809: Twitter Follow Friday

Dr. Rus — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:37:59 +0000

#FollowFriday On Twitter Once Again!

It’s another Friday and that means it’s another #followfriday on Twitter! This is a day when sometimes our Twitter streams get very noisy with people making suggestions of some of their favorite people they follow on Twitter. The idea is to recommend people who are worth following on Twitter.

Once again this week, instead of tossing a list of people into a 140 character tweet on Twitter, I’m following the advice of Steve Woodruff on a way to streamline #followfriday. If you’d like to read more about Steve’s suggestion you check out his blog entry entitled Improving #FollowFriday.

First off, if you aren’t on Twitter, you can head on over to the main Twitter website and set up an account. It’s really easy to set up a Twitter account.

#FollowFriday Suggestions For May 8/09

First off, here are some people that are a must follow. Well, okay, the list includes myself and my wife too.

Today’s list of #FollowFriday suggestions is made up of people I interact with and have great discussions with. It’s also a little bit of link love here to. The list is made up of people who have give me #followfriday kudos not only today, but in the past. I figure anyone that shows up in my tweet stream on a regular basis and talks with me, and anyone who recommends me to as someone to follow, is worthy of mentioning here too!

PJIII – Gave me kudos.
PhotoMemories – Great photographer wonderful interaction.
Hotsports – Makes me laugh and is a great cheerleader!
k8dt – Singer and Domestic Goddess!
ToddBrink – A great guy, who always has something funny to say.
SweetNote – One of the most cheerful, and active Tweet people I know! Always has encouraging words too.
Wolfmank – Great photographer in Rochester, NY area.
molsonfl – A computer geek and part of the really early morning weekday crew.
nelsonmaud – Blips great music throughout the day!
hoopycat – His random tweets simply make me laugh.
kwells2416 – My windy city friend who’s always encouraging.
zwriter – A NASCAR mom and writes a great blog!
bobhallam – Always a great encourager.
brandonacox – If you’re looking for a source of great resources on-line, this is the guy to follow!
ValerieStevens – What can I say, Valerie is just the best and a lot of fun!
cindyscottday – Another person who’s part of the really early morning crew!
Redwolves – Another Rochester, NY guy who likes to stir things up from time to time.
pauley – Another part of the Rochester, NY crew!
BrianNeudorff – If you’re looking for weather information, Brian is your guy!
SkeeterHarris – Another Rochester dude, social media expert, and movie lover.
CaribPop – My Florida friend who’s the best when it comes to helping people find jobs!
trillian1117 – Alot of fun, and always interested in what you’re having for breakfast.
cindyoyo – A great encourager for writers!

Happy #FollowFriday!
Dr. Rus

050109: Twitter Follow Friday

Dr. Rus — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:17:58 +0000

#FollowFriday On Twitter

Friday on Twitter is known as #FollowFriday. In case you’re not aware of what Twitter is, let me give you a brief description before I go any further.

Twitter is a social networking site. Actually, it’s better known as a microblog because you’re limited to 140 characters per tweet. Instead of filling up this entire post with links scattered throughout, at the end of the post I will give all the links in one place. So, you can read this brief description here, without feeling the need to click on a link. But, you will want to do so later on at the end of this post.

I discovered Twitter a long time ago. I’m not really sure when I joined, but I know I was one of the early adopters. But then again, I usually like to try out new things as soon as they hit the Internet. I played around for a while, but wasn’t really sure what added value Twitter brought to my Internet use. However, as time went on, I started discovering some great new friends. It’s a social network for people to connect on many levels. While some use it solely as a marketing tool, there’s much more to it than that. As a matter of fact, while many marketers may have big numbers for followers, they seldom interact, and for me, I usually ignore their requests for me to follow them. I’m not interested in an endless stream of marketing information.

I’m looking for interaction.

So, how does one find interesting people to follow on Twitter? That’s where #FollowFriday comes in. Usually every Friday people simply tweet out a list of @people they’re following. In other words, it’s a recommendation from one person to follow another person. Over the past few weeks, #FollowFriday has resulted in a lot of noise as people simply send out endless lists of @friend suggestions. I’ve actually started ignoring many of them because I simply don’t have time to look over every suggested person.

What to do, what to do, what to do?

A New Way For #FollowFriday

Just how should we handle the noise of #FollowFriday on Twitter? That’s where this blog post comes in. It’s also where I need to introduce Steve Woodruff, also known as @swoodruff on Twitter. Earlier this week he made a suggestion to start giving not only more information about those we’re suggesting as good people to follow. But he also suggested writing a blog post too. You can read his full post on his StickyFigure blog at Improving Follow Friday. It’s well worth the read, and it’s also a great suggestion.

So, using Steve’s suggestion for Improving Follow Friday, I will start doing a blog post with my weekly suggestions. Along the way, I will also give Twitter user friendly suggestions too.

My #FollowFriday Suggestions for May 1/09

First off, if you don’t have a Twitter account and you’re reading this post, it’s really easy to set up an account. Simply head on over to the Twitter site and set up an account. It’s really easy, and before you know it, you’ll be having a blast interacting with people from all over the world.

My first suggestion for #FollowFriday

Swoodruff – Made this great Twitter suggestion

In the coming weeks I will categorize my followfriday suggestions. This week, my followfriday suggestions fall into the category of People Who Make Me Laugh.

And in the spirit of not wanting to leave out a few important people on this my first #followfriday Twitter list…

People I interact with on a daily basis…

There you go! Happy Twitter following!
Dr. Rus

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