Wednesday Words: Follow Friday (#ff)

Today's word comes from the Twitterverse and is something that has been a part of Twitter for almost as long as it has been around, but some people aren't sure what it is or how to use it.  The word: Follow Friday or #ff.

#ff is the hashtag used by Twitter to encourage people to follow other Twitter handles and is short for Follow Friday.

Why should you participate in #ff?  Well, first of all it creates good will because you are promoting people and encouraging folks to follow them.  Often times, this creates a bit of good publicity for you for some of those folks will see their handle mentioned and either retweet your post, allowing it to be seen by their followers and possibly resulting in some people following you; or they will favorite the post which will give it exposure and result in the same possibility.

Other times, people who participate in #ff will encourage others who suggest people #ff them, they will in turn tweet to get people to follow you.

Ultimately, #ff is a good way to add followers for yourself and brands/people you like.

Participating in #ff is easy.  All you have to do is when you create your tweet on Friday, start off with #ff then simply list the twitter handles of people you want to promote.

So, for example, if you wanted to promote me, you could do #ff @kayhynn and check out her awesome blog on social media.  Or you could just do #ff @kayhynn @othername @genericname @Twitterhandle etc. till you are out of characters.  You can do multiple #ff too, just space them out a bit.

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