Given how utterly confusing and overwhelming Follow Friday is on twitter, I have decided to start recommending my favourite twitterers on my blog instead, with some information about them. I won’t do it every week, just occasionally when I have discovered really cool people that I think you should all follow!
Follow Friday is a group meme on Twitter where everybody suggests new people to follow. It’s a great way of discovering new people on Twitter – you might even make some great new friends.
“What he/she says” is stolen from their twitter bios, btw.. so if I call you boring it’s cos you haven’t bothered writing one! There are 14 suggestions here – 1 for every 10 characters!
@jamescorkhill
What he says: “Recently and happily married, I like all things geeky, especially Mac products and work as a PHP web developer.”
What I say: “My lovely husband! Promises to tweet more if he has more followers 
– what he does say is interesting most the time, if a little geeky at time!”
@hayles
What she says: “A twenty-something blonde who finds herself working in IT in Bristol for some strange reason. Also likes shoes.”
What I say: “Hayley is a friend of James’s from Uni, and we’ve bonded over our respective caffiene addiction and girl geekiness. Lovely girl, great tweets :-).”
@Sn1per
What he says: “Geek, photographer, Mac fan, outdoorsman, digital strategist, Libertarian and idiot. Not necessarily in that order.”
What I say: “He locked himself in his own porch for about 2 hours. That kind of amusement alone is worth following him for! Seriously though, he’s a great guy”
@plannersusanna
What she says: “I’m a wedding/events Planner and all-around good soul, with a little bit of naughty thrown in for good measure :o)”
What I say: “@Sn1per’s wife & all round trouble maker! I love her tweets, they’re so mischievous sometimes!”
@takara_kat
What she says: Nothing. How boring.
What I say: “A mobile platform (inc. iPhone) game developer, really nice girl to talk to – a good friend of mine. A little bit silly at times :P!”
@chexee
What she says: “Web / Design / New Media / The Starship Heart of Gold”
What I say: “Great wordpress theme developer who I’ve known since our old Livejournal days. Interesting & often useful tweets :)”
@trialia
What she says: “Eclectic, eccentric, irrepressible and insane.”
What I say: “She sums it up in those 4 words quite well! She’s a big fangirl, I’ve known her since I was tiny.”
@stef
What he says: “Creative entrepreneur and maker of social network toolbox for dads Odadeo.com – Webby winner, Clore Fellow, ideas guy, jack of all trades but master of none!”
What I say: “Nice guy, good tweets.”
@emilyquinton
What she says: “Wedding and Fine Art Photographer, mum to two and PhD student. Busy and happy!”
What I say: “GORGEOUS photos (I’m so jealous!) – @stef’s wife. A happy soul :).”
@sophamie
What she says: Nothing. BORING!
What I say: “My best friend from my high school days. Doesn’t tweet much but maybe more followers would encourage her! Welcome her to the party!”
@mooseius
What she says: “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.”
What I say: “Another school friend who I’ve reconnected with on the internet since twitter was invented! Lovely girl, very funny tweets at times!”
@msonline_uk
What he says: “Gadget lover, Mac user, iPhone user and Girls Aloud fan”
What I say: “Genuinely nice guy, very into gadgets. I think he’s the gadget show’s biggest fan!
@homily
What she says: “Woof!”
What I say: “Yep, this is my dog. She’s very web 2.0. Lots of cute/funny photos and random updates :P. She’s ADORABLE, even on twitter.”
@mfhorne (there has to be one celebrity on the list, and everyone already follows @stephenfry!)
What he says: “small actor”
What I say: “He’s hilarious – if you want some humour in your twitterfeed, follow Mat Horne! “
Tags: #followfriday, twitter
I’m not sure whether I should object to being called silly or that you only think I’m silly sometimes! ;o)
Being able to be silly at times is a good thing, not a bad one!
Twitter: zoecorkhill
Hey thanks for the FollowFriday. I think it’s a cool idea to blog it. No-one has room for decent descriptions of tweeps on Twitter, so there is a tendency to just get huge lists of names every Friday.
You could start a trend ;0)
Blogging it just seems to make so much more sense – you can actually give reasons why people should follow them. Tweets work if you only put one name in, then you have room for a few words of praise too. But the tweets that are just full of names don’t tempt me much!
Twitter: zoecorkhill
unfortunately zwe, some of us have to work when we’ve at work as opposed to tweeting all day!! saying that…i did spent 2.5 hours today cuddling a 3 month old baby at work! and i tweet whenever i can, but im a busy busy bee! zzub!
I don’t tweet that much at work, just at lunch and after work
– it does help that I have tweetie running on my iPhone though!
Awww @ the baby cuddling – are you getting broody?
Hows work going now?
Twitter: zoecorkhill