Today, Brien Peters (@BrienPeters) took #FollowFriday to overkill status as he blasted out what had to be about every single one of his followers as recommendations.
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There I was interacting with my Twitter Timeline and in comes this mention for #FollowFriday. Never met the guy, don’t even know who he is. After visiting his Twitter Profile, I decided to peruse his Updates. There were at least 3 pages of #FollowFriday spam and that is exactly what it was from my perspective. It was a way for people like me to see the mention and find out who the person was. Needless to say, I BLOCKED that person from seeing my updates. If I was good enough for a #FollowFriday shout out, I’m good enough for them to Subscribe to my Twitter RSS Feed. :) I do believe that #FollowFriday stuff gets a bit out of hand at times. My Twitter Timeline today was probably 20% #FollowFriday Hash Tags. The Auto Follow programs are having a field day with #FollowFriday. These are the kind of people you don’t want having Twitter Applications to streamline their routines. ;)
i saw this as well. i definitely think #followfriday has been getting a little out of hand. i prefer just a few recommendations, WITH SOME EXPLANATION AS TO WHY. what a concept, huh?
It’s getting to be a pain - on Friday I just got loads of seemingly random lists of twitter names from different people. Only one had recommendations that I actually looked at, as he had actually put 5 or 6 names together with a ’theme’. Plus the only time I appeared on a followfriday list I actually lost followers so it sucks, obviously :-(
I think someone should put their foot down when they see this type of stuff proliferating. I just viewed a profile of someone who has 50k+ Following. They did the same thing that BrienPeters did but on a massive scale. Pages upon pages of #FollowFriday spam. I think I’m going to include a filter in our app that removes all #FollowFriday Tweets that meet a certain criteria. ;)
It figures... I finally get my name @shendison on a FF list and it turns out to be spam ;)
Don’t participate in #followfriday... as those people do... just take the good principle... strip it of the noisy implementation... and reccomend good people any day of the week with explanations of WHY.