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Web Secret #169: FollowFriday Helper Posted: 31 Aug 2011 05:30 AM PDT If you are on Twitter, you know that though it sounds counterintuitive, the more people you follow, the more followers you have. If you haven't learned how to add #FollowFriday to your arsenal, now is the time. FollowFriday started in 2009 with the following tweet: I am starting Follow Fridays. Every Friday, suggest a person to follow, and everyone follow him/her. Today its @fancyjeffrey & @w1redone. The idea was to think of interesting people you already followed and recommend them to others. The concept took off like wildfire. On the first FollowFriday, there were almost two #followfriday tweets per second at its peak. And the movement continues to thrive. FollowFriday is successful because: 1. It's easy. It takes little effort to send a tweet. 2. It's participatory. You can suggest one person or 100 people. You can get endorsements from one person or a hundred people. 3. It's karmic and it feels good. It's a great feeling to simply say, "I think this person is great. You should follow them." I liked the concept, but was too lazy to implement it, until I found the handy Follow Friday Helper. FF Helper is a free twitter app that makes it dead-easy to recommend tweeps on Twitter. Sign up. FFH shows you a list of your most active users on Twitter. You can then create #FollowFriday tweets with just a few clicks. This takes seconds. The max time I was willing to dedicate to this effort. Try it, you'll like it.