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Follow Friday Mistakes on Twitter

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Every Friday on Twitter, users on Twitter recommend other people to follow using the #followfriday hashtag. This sounds nice in theory, it gives tweeters a chance to suggest and find other cool people to follow.

Unfortunately, some people do it so, so wrong. Do you make these mistakes?

List a bunch of people without any context – This is when you tweet something like the following:

#followfriday @arandomperson @totallyunrelatedperson @someotherguy @someothergal @whocares @nooneispayingattentionanymore

What’s the problem? There’s no context. Noone knows why you’re suggesting these people to follow. Who are they? What do they do?

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