Now a lot of us on Twitter, including myself @BlazingMinds, tweet with the FollowFriday hash tag to let our followers see who we recommend to follow on Twitter, but are you using the hashtag correctly.
I’ve seen many twitters tweeting with #ff this is all very well and good, but did you know that if you use the #FollowFriday hashtag you’ll get a little bit of extra linkage for your twitter, what you didn’t know, then let me know how.
If you use the #FollowFriday hashtag you will get added to the list of twitters using it on the website TopFollowFriday here all the twitters using the tag will be listed with who has endorsed them, who you have endorsed and more.
This is really useful to see your [intlink id="list-twitter-followers-recommend" type="post"]FollowFriday[/intlink] recommendations, it also has a top 100 of twitters who are using the tag or have been mentioned with the #FollowFriday tag.
So remember when you are using the FollowFriday Twitter tag, use the full title, not the #ff this way you will get listed and found it what can be described as a FollowFriday directory of twitters that are recommending friends, followers and twitters they like on Twitter.
UPDATED 26/2/2010
A special thanks to @cornyman for letting me know that #ff is accepted at TopFollowFriday, so now it’s entirely up to you 
Also it has to be the 1st word in a tweet, if someone RTs the #ff the RT should be at the end of the tweet or it won’t count as #ff
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Twitter: Ileane
says:
Hi Karen, this is a great tip. I think people use #ff to save time but it really doesn’t mean the same thing. I use #ff when I’m thanking someone for #FollowFriday. I hope that makes sense.
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Twitter: BlazingMinds
says:
It certainly does make sense, I think it’s best to do as you do use the full tag to recommend someone and use the short tag to say thanks
Twitter: TechPatio
says:
I didn’t know about that website, but I also began using #FF (sometimes in addition to #FollowFriday). I’m not sure about Follow Friday though, I don’t think it really gives any new followers.
Personally I rarely follow anybody myself, based on #FF recommendations.
What about you?
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Twitter: BlazingMinds
says:
I do check out the ones that my close circle of friends recommend and do follow sometimes, but it also depends on which twitter I follow them with
Twitter: wchingya
says:
Same here. I’m using #ff most of the time but now prefer #MustFollow as my acknowledgment to my Twitter friends. A long list may not be as effective as a recomm with brief description.
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Twitter: BlazingMinds
says:
I noticed you use #MustFollow have you thought about checking out Twubs.com and setting up a group for your hashtag?
Twitter: simplehomeorg
says:
I, too, check out the people on a #FF list if they are recommended by people I really like.
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Twitter: BlazingMinds
says:
I always check out those that my friends recommend on FollowFriday
Twitter: danalingga
says:
Oh … I understand what #ff and #FollowFriday are. I just wonder about it because see in many twitter that i follow.
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Twitter: money_whisper
says:
Hmmm…I’ve had no idea about this. Thank you for sharing this Karen.
Twitter: DennisEdell
says:
having never done it, lets see if I understand. You’re simply saying, in a tweet, to use #followfriday instead of just #ff, yes?
This way all your info gets added to that site and its an extra traffic source…
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Twitter: BlazingMinds
says:
Yep! So when you decide to recommend friends on Fridays, use the full tag instead of the short one
Twitter: moonheart85
says:
I have one good experience on followfriday, recently I have retweeted many post on followfriday and I have seen that my twitter follower is increasing.
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Twitter: AnneOnline
says:
I don’t always participate, but mostly because I’m not too terribly active on Twitter these days. Yet, I will definitely remember to use the full hashtag and not the abbreviated one. I often wondered if it mattered and now I know. Thanks, Karen.
Twitter: extremejohn
says:
It’s nice to see someone finally came out with something to add some kind of value to Follow Friday, up until seeing this I found it to be more annoying than good. I have a post about it, I won’t go nuts here haha.
I don’t see me recommending huge lists of people anytime soon, but I will continue to recommend my highest quality Twitter friends.
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Twitter: cornyman
says:
Thanks for the mention!
Will tweet from next Thursday on again the link to your post, so that more twitter members get aware of FollowFriday and the TopFollowFriday-website!
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Hi, I’m just setting up my twitter account and this sounds like a really good thing to do. I hadn’t even heard of Follow Friday, but I will make sure I use the long version – Thanks!
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Twitter: BlazingMinds
says:
Hi Wendy, follow my music twitter @RemBeatZ and I’ll follow you back, off to check out your site now
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