The Problems I Have With TopFollowFriday.com
Hey, check this out. You know #followfriday, where you can make recommendations of cool people to follow on the Friday of each week? Good times. If so, then you’re probably also aware of TopFollowFriday.com, a site that ranks the most highly-recommended folk.
For example, here’s a screenshot from today’s chart:
I have two problems with this.
- It’s not Friday, and
- How in blue blazes am I number one?
The reason is disappointing simple: every mention of a username in a tweet that contains a #followfriday tag will count as a recommendation, irrespective of which day of the week it is.
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