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By: Fussy Follow Friday – @jenniferalaine

Fussy Follow Friday – @jenniferalaine — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 02:18:44 +0000

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By: Twitter’s #FollowFriday #FF – Over the Top. Literally « Laika’s MedLibLog

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:14:23 +0000

[...] Stratton proposes to use the hashtag fussy-follow-friday, to discrimate good tweets from bad [...]

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Funnel-System.com » Fussy Follow Friday | Good Old Rock — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:36:54 +0000

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By: Matt Stratton

Matt Stratton — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:00:00 +0000

Qrystal – good point about including the #followfriday tag as well…I think the suggestion of using #3F as a supplement, rather than replacement, is bang-on. I’ll start implementing it that way myself today! I think I’ll also update this blog post to include that suggestion too.

Thanks for the support!

By: Qrystal

Qrystal — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:53:19 +0000

I am always glad to see others who are speaking out against the pointless lists of #followfriday recommendations.

Did you know there’s a website that can help create pointless #followfriday lists? It automagically scans your recent tweets to find a list of suggestions, which it encourages you to tweet without context. Sad, I know!

I try to lead by example, always giving context to my followfriday recommendations. I also speak up every few weeks and insist that people should include reasons if they want their recommendations to mean something.

Anyways, I don’t think I want to switch to a new hashtag to make my intentions clear. However, I’m sure there’s room to include #3F in addition to #followfriday.

The main reason to keep using the #followfriday hashtag is because the website http://topfollowfriday.com tracks “endorsements”, as they call followfriday recommendations. I wouldn’t want to cheat anyone out of an endorsement if I really want to give it!

Anyways, off to tweet this idea, and I’ll include your bit.ly link back to this page so you can track it. Cheers! :)

By: Matt Stratton

Matt Stratton — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:43:21 +0000

Thanks for the support, Talia! I’m glad you like our idea…and thanks for promoting it on YOUR twitter feed…that’s super awesome.

We got a few people ‘catching on’ this week…it’ll take time, but I think eventually we’ll find more adoption. This is what I think #followfriday was supposed to be about in the first place, anyway!

By: Matt Stratton

Matt Stratton — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:42:05 +0000

One thing I discovered, though – if you want to include hashtags, you have to escape them, otherwise the JavaScript hangs on that the # sign and you don’t get any of the text after it.

By: Luke

Luke — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:32:44 +0000

Very cool. I didn't know you could link to a twitter update like you did! .-= Luke´s last blog ..Media PC (completed) =-.

By: Luke Carbis » Post a tweet from an anchor link!

Luke Carbis » Post a tweet from an anchor link! — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:30:54 +0000

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By: Talia

Talia — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:57:33 +0000

Yay! This is SUCH a great idea! I am sick of Follow Friday, it spams up me feeds and lasts for DAYS because I’m in Australia…. Haha. I think this is an EXCELLENT idea! You’d definitely be my #FFF some weeks Matt, particularly when posts like this are involved! Great ideas, great stuff.
.-= Talia´s last blog ..My New Apron! =-.