As the person that probably invented Unfollow_Friday weeks ago I couldn't agree more. In addition to your excellent points there are also the people that Tweet that same follows every week and the people that only Tweet Follow_fridays and it takes over their Twitter stream.
It'smostly noise and little signal and if that's what I'm going to read I'd rather it be something silly or mundane than simple pimping.
Tom
· 7 months ago
I have only personal experience to go on here, but I get the impression also that above a certain follower level #followfriday makes precious little difference to actually attracting new followers! It's a nice pat on the back but that's all.
Certainly when I use it I try to only recommend people with under 200 or 100 followers already, with reasons, so that I feel my recommendation is actually useful to them.
It would be interesting to see the level of reciprocity - my hunch is it's on the rise - people FF people because they want to be FF'ed back.
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It'smostly noise and little signal and if that's what I'm going to read I'd rather it be something silly or mundane than simple pimping.
Certainly when I use it I try to only recommend people with under 200 or 100 followers already, with reasons, so that I feel my recommendation is actually useful to them.
It would be interesting to see the level of reciprocity - my hunch is it's on the rise - people FF people because they want to be FF'ed back.