I remember my early days of Twitter

Way back in 2009

Twitter was such a friendly helpful community where we had light discussions about our interests and Brexit and Trump were words that didn’t bombard us on a hourly basis

And local residents were more excited about a new business opening than they were moaning about litter or pot holes

With close friends we often talk about the Twitter of old and how in many ways it was a much friendly place from 2009-2012 than it is now

A small part of that helpful community was Follow Friday, which looking at my twitter feed today anyone who’s joined twitter recently won’t be aware of

SO WHAT IS FOLLOW FRIDAY?
A Follow Friday is a post done on Friday where Twitter users recommend to their followers other Twitter users to follow

In the early days of Twitter it was a great chance to find other interesting Twitter users to follow

The key components of a Follow Friday was

#FF + Twitter Username + a great reason for users to follow

i.e #ff @altrinchamhq The Best Social Media Company in #Manchester bringing you daily social media tips + breaking news from #Altrincham

In many ways Follow Friday was key part of how people built up their audience

In later days people lost the core of what Follow Friday was – great reasons to follow – and ended up being lazy with just a list of user names

WHY HAS IT VIRTUALLY DISAPPEARED?
People built up audiences

They got bored

They ran out of new people to recommend

Perhaps these are 3 of the reasons Follow Friday has virtually disappeared

But even I was shocked that at the time of writing this blog only 4 people out of 4000+ people I follow have done a follow Friday in the past 3 weeks

SO IS IT TIME TO TRY AND REVIVE IT?
Community is still important and shouting about others that do great things is important

So should we all try to do our part to help others

It’s simple and easy and takes less than a minute to do

So why not do your bit today

Recommend those people that make your Twitter feed so much better

Support those that support you

Help those people that make your smile

And do it each and every Friday

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Alex McCann is owner of Altrincham HQ – a social media management and training company based in Altrincham, Cheshire that has worked with 100s of local business developing their social media strategy. Alex has 500+ LinkedIn testimonials and is Ranked Number 1 for Social Media Marketing in the UK via independent customer reviews on Freeindex.