Comments on: Did Twitter Just Kill Off Follow Fridays?

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By: Versante Apartments

Versante Apartments — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 22:59:57 +0000

Is it just me or is it getting harder and harder to keep up with what is the latest twitter trend and what’s dead. I felt like I had just learned about #FF and now it’s dead? Holly cow this stuff is hard for me to follow. What’s the saying? “I may be slow, but it’s okay because I do poor work”.

TGIF (or is that dead too?)

By: bronxelf

bronxelf — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:24:36 +0000

Well, since I managed to completely eliminate *both* “who to follow” and “trending topics” permanently from my sidebar using adblockplus (thank goodness), I don’t have twitter telling me who I should follow (usually it’s people I know and don’t WANT to follow) and trending topics, which I usually find asinine.

#FF lives on for those of us not interested in being nannied by twitter.

By: 4WallsRentals

4WallsRentals — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:31:11 +0000

It’s been down today so it looks like it might have died out as quickly as it started? I’m kind of mixed on it and likened it to Facebook’s “People You May Already Know” feature. It didn’t necessarily mean that you knew any of the people on there. If anything it just offered up friendly suggestions and showed how many of our followers followed The Onion. But wether its done or still going it definitely doesn’t kill off Follow Friday. #FF is a lot more personable and succeeds in paying it forward to the people that you really pay attention to. and therefore it serves a purpose that the other feature could never live up to.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 19:09:47 +0000

Anything that means I dont have to spend hours on #ff reccomendations is good for me!!

By: intel_chris

intel_chris — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 17:00:11 +0000

There are some things that twitter is misunderstanding here. One of the key features of twitter is its use as word-of-mouth recommendations. Automated similarity measures can never replace that. Follow Friday may have its problems, but at its core it is a word-of-mouth recommendation system that makes it integral to how people use twitter.

By: Rick

Rick — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:28:15 +0000

Sorry, Darnell, FollowFriday will never be killed off. I would trust recommendations made by the people I follow decades before I would trust ones made by Twitter…especially if, as you suggest the possibility of, businesses are allowed to pay to have Twitter recommend them.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 13:24:52 +0000

Maybe we don’t *want* it “easier”. Dumbing things down made Facebook exponentially worse. So did its constantly recommending things to us. Give us credit for being able to think and innovate on our own. That is what built the Internet. (And get off my lawn.)

By: Liz

Liz — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 09:04:12 +0000

When Twitter changed their algorithm for Trending Topics, it effectively removed popular hashtags (#FollowFriday, #MusicMonday, #NowPlaying) from trending on its Top 10 list. You can still see who people you follow are recommending but Twitter did, it their way, ban #FollowFriday from being a Trending Topic.

By: Don

Don — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:36:30 +0000

Twitter lists didn’t kill TweetDeck or other apps that organize Twitter and this won’t kill Follow Friday. As @hughbriss points out, I make my Follow Friday recommendations based on those I follow whom I consider to be worth following, not the ones Twitter thinks we should follow.

By: Darnell Clayton

Darnell Clayton — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:48:31 +0000

Hey Hugh,

True, people can still recommend users, but as this feature makes its way throughout third party apps we may see follow Fridays become history (as Social Follow is much easier, at least for pros and newbie’s).

By: Hugh Briss

Hugh Briss — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:42:09 +0000

I take it the title was meant to be sensational? Why in the world would this kill follow friday’s? People can still recommend others they like and recommend following whether there’s another way to find people or not.