| Like all Twitter hashtags,
the addition of this to a tweet to the beginning or end of a tweet in which you
@name specific people, ensures that anyone looking for people worth following in
the eyes of others can be found conveniently gathered together at
http://www.search.twitter.com by
putting 'followfriday' in the search slot (without the apostrophes of course!).
When someone you are already following tweets a #followfriday recommendation you
can, of course, simply click on the @names contained in the tweet to check out
the profile pages of those recommended. Some people
elect to tweet a series of names without explanation, others group names by
country or profession and a few make an individual recommendation with
information about the person in question.
The #followfriday convention means
that everyone is recommending people to one another at the same time and the
volume of tweets can peak extraordinarily but it's only a short-term phenomenon
each week and, although some grumpy individuals may un-follow one because of it,
they will quickly be replaced by more sociable people :-)
Like most Twitter conventions #followfriday now has it's own website:
http://topfollowfriday.com/ Where the
most recommended people each week are listed, along with relevant information.
Having said all that, it is not my intention to disturb anyone so I will be
creating less #followfriday tweets some weeks than others and may even create a
page of recommendations on this site and link to it if time permits. | 
