Excerpt from: FAS Talk
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| May 07, 2009 | | Steve Woodruff and I have been lobbying for a more useful FollowFriday protocol; the #ff2 tag is a good step in that direction. | | Last month I blogged about how Twitter's FollowFriday jumped the shark (but we can fix it) and Steve Woodruff blogged about Improving Follow Friday. The gist of both posts is that while the fundamental concept of "Follow Friday" is good, in practice, its execution is (typically) poor. In today's Improving FollowFriday, week 2 post, Steve suggests the introduction of a new tag to help sort through the Follow Friday noise to locate the truly useful recommendations: "And let’s try one other thing: tag your FollowFriday tweet with #followfriday and #ff2 - that way we can more easily sort through the #followfriday noise and find the entries that give us a fuller recommendation." This is a great idea. This form of tagging is backward compatible with people that search for #followfriday, but it provides a way of refining search to specifically target more meaningful recommendations. Someday, when everyone drinks the #ff2 koolaid, we can even deprecate the #followfriday tag (and reclaim 14 of those precious 140 character slots!) Now, the next hot issue: is it "FollowFriday" or "Follow Friday"? :-) | | |
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