Yes, it may be a little gimmicky or cheesy but there are certain parts of the Twitter experience that can enhance your relationship with your followers.  You followers are you lifeline.  Developing your relationships with them is key.

One of the most common and fun exercises Twitter enthusiasts involve themselves in is Friday Follow.  What it basically breaks down to is users have lists of there favorite followers and on Friday masses send out tweets listing these followers with a hashtag (the # sign which is the thread organizer for Twitter) that says #FF or #followfriday thus encouraging all others who see those tweets to follow the listed users.

Within the Twitter interface this is not always an easy exercise primarily because there is no way to sort your followers, either alphabetically or by a rank of any kind.  The easiest way, for lack of a better description, is to save notepads in a file with the names you wish to use and then the dreaded, time consuming copy and paste.

I have come across a site that makes it a little bit easier to do a good number of Friday Follows.  You won’t necessarily be able to use it for just your heroes or favorite reads, but you will be able to always do a good number of follow tweets and increase your presence as well as enhance even more relationships.  This will also save you countless minutes and hours of time.

The site I am referring to is The Twitter Tag Project.  You are able to simply type in your Twitter screen name, hit enter and a good list of pre-entered Follow Friday tweets is generated for you for approximately the last 200 people on your timeline while removing the duplicates.

From their website:

Tired of manually inputting names for Follow Friday tweets? Well do I have a solution for you!

  1. Type in your twitter username.
  2. The engine will scan the last 200 tweets, count the dups, and return your most active friends.
  3. The results will display:

    #FollowFriday @friend1 @friend2 @friend3 @friend4…

All Bird

All you would have to do then is click on the generated tweets one at a time and submit your tweet when the site opens in a new browser.  If you have multiple Twitter accounts, you need to make sure that you are logged in to the correct account within that browser.  This will ensure that when you hit the [tweet this] you will be taken to a new window that is already logged in on the account you wish to use.

This is an excellent tool and hopefully you will be able to use this to your advantage and I trust this information will be found useful to you.  Twitter can be an outstanding marketing tool for you and this site should provide a nice enhancement for you.