#FollowFriday, #FanFriday and #FriendFriday Explained

by Heather Mansfield · 2009-08-14 08:42:00 UTC
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#FollowFriday, #FanFriday and #FriendFriday are hashtags. #FollowFriday has long been used by the Twitter community to suggest Twitter profiles to one another that are worthy of being followed.

Yesterday, as I was browsing through Tweets by nonprofits, I saw so many "Check us out on Facebook!" and "Become a friend on MySpace!" Tweets that I thought the law of diminishing returns must be kicking in by now. So, today I started experimenting with two new Twitter hashtags:

#FanFriday: A simple way to ask followers to fan a nonprofit on Facebook. Example Tweet:

#FanFriday Please help Gorilla Doctors achieve 100 fans on Facebook! http://bit.ly/fYP8H

#FriendFriday: A hashtag used to ask followers to friend a nonprofit on MySpace, YouTube, FriendFeed, etc. Example Tweet:

#FriendFriday Please help the Wild Dolphin Foundation achieve 46,000 friends on MySpace! http://bit.ly/42YdEm

These hashtags can also be used on Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Change.org, etc. For example, on the Nonprofit Organizations Facebook Page and my personal profile, I just posted this Status Update:

#FanFriday Please help Gorilla Doctors reach 100 fans! A great organization that provides medical care to the world's remaining 740 mountain gorillas: http://bit.ly/fYP8H

Some hashtags take off, most don't. We'll see.

Heather Mansfield

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