#FollowFriday: The Anatomy of a Twitter Trend


	#FollowFriday: The Anatomy of a Twitter Trend

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4-3-2009 2:10 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/95937f34-41ad-47c6-ab0b-83b50a430fc7/8670E9D8-2BB8-4E8E-9A84-4ED9DEAD189B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://mashable.com/2009/03/06/twitter-followfriday/" href="http://mashable.com/2009/03/06/twitter-followfriday/" style="font-size: 11px;">mashable.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mashable.com/2009/03/06/twitter-followfriday/"><H1><A title="Permanent Link to #FollowFriday: The Anatomy of a Twitter Trend" rel="bookmark" class="fn url" href="http://mashable.com/2009/03/06/twitter-followfriday/">#FollowFriday: The Anatomy of a Twitter Trend</A></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mashable.com/2009/03/06/twitter-followfriday/"><P>What if you didn’t know who to follow on <A href="http://mashable.com/tag/twitter/">Twitter</A><A class="blippr-inline-smiley blippr-inline-smiley-07" rel="http://www.blippr.com/apps/336651-Twitter.whtml" target="_blank" href="http://www.blippr.com/apps/336651-Twitter"><SPAN> (</SPAN><IMG alt="Twitter reviews" src="http://static1.blippr.com/images/inline-face_07.png?1237798206" class="wp-smiley" /><SPAN>)</SPAN></A>? Would you randomly start following people? Would you follow people you see mentioned by those you already follow?  Most likely you would ask your friends for recommendations since you can trust that your friends will suggest people who are worth following. Which is exactly how FollowFriday began. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8670E9D8-2BB8-4E8E-9A84-4ED9DEAD189B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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