How To Do a Proper Follow Friday on Twitter

What is #followfriday? Every Friday, you'll see thousands of people on Twitter using this phrase in their tweets. So what exactly is #followfriday? Follow Friday is a way people recommend their followers in their tweets to other followers to follow on Twitter. Don't get it?

Alright imagine you're in a PARTY. There are tons of people in that party, most of them you don't know. Maybe me you know me, then I'll shake your hand and recommend you to my other friends (followers) in that party (Twitter). I'll tell them "Hey meet Mike, he's a great guy! he owns three successful business"

Then my friends (followers) will get interested in knowing you and you'll be friends (they follow you on Twitter). Here are some mistakes that you shouldn't make.

DON'Ts

1. Recommend WITHOUT reasons.

I know that you want to recommend as many people as possible but without any reasons, nobody will look at them and consider following them.

Why you shouldn't do this. Using the same party situation like above, imagine me shouting "hey meet these guys here" Firstly, I sound like a crazy person. Secondly there isn't a personal touch in it.

2. Recommend everyone on your list.

Its alright to be friendly but recommending everyone on your list is not a way. First you'll be spamming the timeline, secondly it looks spammy. Why you shouldn't do this. Again imagine me going around the party shouting hey meet him, hey meet them, hey meet him, her and him. At first maybe people will listen. After going on for 10 minutes. Do you think anyone bother listening to me anymore?

So how do you do a proper Follow Friday? Some of you might have a small list of followers, some might have a bigger list of followers. Here are some methods you can use.

DOs

1. Send personal Follow Friday tweets

This is a proper way to do a Follow Friday. It has information about the person rather than just tweeting follow him, her, him, him, her, her. It gives you the information of what kind of of guy or girl they are and why you should follow them.

2. Use Mr.Tweet

@Mrtweet is similar like the technique above where you can recommend someone personally. When you recommend someone using Mr Tweet it will be stored in their website.

3. Small groups

If you have tons of followers you can use this technique. Recommend four to six people in your list and tell people why they should follow them. Its clean and it has a reason why as well.

4. Create a Twitter list and call it "Follow Friday"

You can also create a list and call if Follow Friday. Since you have tons of followers it is going to be hard for you to recommend everyone on your list. However you can add them in a list and name it Follow Friday and ask your followers to follow the list or follow the people on the list.