#FollowFriday and The Three Tweets
Jim Harris in Data Quality, Social Media tagged FollowFriday, Humor, Twitter Friday, September 24, 2010 at 3:00AM Today is Friday, which for Twitter users like me, can mean only one thing . . .
It is FollowFriday—the day when Twitter users recommend other users that you should follow. In other words, it’s the Twitter version of peer pressure: “I recommended you, why didn't you recommend me?”
So why does anyone follow anyone on Twitter? There are many theories, mine is called . . .
The Three Tweets
From my perspective, there are only three kinds of tweets:
- Informative Tweets — Providing some form of information, or a link to it, these tweets deliver the practical knowledge or thought-provoking theories, allowing you to almost convince your boss that Twitter is a required work activity.
- Entertaining Tweets — Providing some form of entertainment, or a link to it, these tweets are often the funny respites thankfully disrupting the otherwise serious (or mind-numbingly boring) routine of your typical business day.
- Infotaining Tweets — Providing a combination of information and entertainment, or a link to it, these tweets make you think a little, laugh a little, and go on and sway (just a little) along with the music that often only you can hear.
Let’s take a look at a few examples of each one of The Three Tweets.
Informative Tweets
Entertaining Tweets
Infotaining Tweets
#FollowFriday Recommendations
By no means a comprehensive list, and listed in no particular order whatsoever, here are some great tweeps, and especially for mostly informative tweets about Data Quality, Data Governance, Master Data Management, and Business Intelligence:
- Henrik Liliendahl Sørensen – @hlsdk
- Dylan Jones – @DataQualityPro
- Phil Simon – @PhilSimon
- The New Small – @TheNewSmall
- Jill Wanless – @sheezaredhead
- Datamartist – @Datamartist
- Rob Paller – @RobPaller
- Julian Schwarzenbach – @jschwa1
- Rich Murnane – @murnane
- Ken O’Connor – @KenOConnorData
- Graham Rhind – @GrahamRhind
- Augusto Albeghi – @Stray__Cat
- Jacqueline Roberts – @JackieMRoberts
- Terri Rylander – @BIMarcom
- Garnie Bolling – @GarnieBolling
- William Sharp – @dqchronicle
- Beth Breidenbach – @bbreidenbach
- Jill Dyché – @JillDyche
- Baseline Consulting – @BaselineConsult
- Marty Moseley – @wmmarty
- Jarrett Goldfedder – @JGoldfed
- Initiate, an IBM Company – @IBMInitiate
- DataFlux, a SAS Company – @DataFlux
- Informatica – @InformaticaCorp
- Steve Sarsfield – @SteveSarsfield
- Talend – @Talend
- Winston Chen – @WinstonChen
- Kalido – @Kalido
- Daragh O Brien – @daraghobrien
- IAIDQ – @IAIDQ
- Utopia, Inc. – @UtopiaInc
- Experian QAS – @Experian_QAS
- Paige Roberts – @RobertsPaige
- Pervasive Software – @DataIntegrate
- SmartData Collective – @SmartDataCo
- Dan Power – @dan_power
- David Loshin – @DavidLoshin
- Merv Adrian – @merv
- Robert Karel – @rbkarel
- Forrester Research – @forrester
- Ted Friedman – @ted_friedman
- Gartner Research – @Gartner_inc
- Andy Bitterer – @bitterer
- ANALYSTerical – @ANALYSTerical
- Neil Raden – @NeilRaden
- James Taylor – @jamet123
- William McKnight – @williammcknight
- Loraine Lawson – @LoraineLawson
- Sarah Burnett – @SarahBurnett
- Corinna Martinez – @Futureratti
- Ted Louie – @TedLouie
- Karen Lopez – @datachick
- Rob Drysdale – @projmgr
- Nick Giuliano – @Nick_Giuliano
- Julie Hunt – @juliebhunt
- Mark Stacey – @MarkGStacey
- Teresa Cottam – @Teresacottam
- John Owens – @JohnIMM
- Dalton Cervo – @dcervo
- MDM in Practice – @MDMinPractice
- Peter Thomas – @PeterJThomas
- Phil Wright – @faropress
- Loretta Mahon Smith – @silverdata
- Jaime Fitzgerald – @jaimefitzgerald
PLEASE NOTE: No offense is intended to any of my tweeps not listed above. However, if you feel that I have made a glaring omission of an obviously Twitterific Tweep, then please feel free to post a comment below and add them to the list. Thanks!
I hope that everyone has a great FollowFriday and an even greater weekend. See you all around the Twittersphere.
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Reader Comments (1)
I LOVE this!
Not JUST because you have greatly honored me, but because you've added a new perspective on how I view tweets. From this point forward I will always look at a tweet and think to myself: "hmmm...Informative, Entertaining or Infotaining?" Not only that, I will also review and categorize my own tweets the same way.
I am also now wondering if there is a way to personally Tag tweets (besides the very public hashtags), so that you could analyze and report on the numbers and frequencies by tweeter, date, location, etc.
I love it when an idea generates a new view of things. You are very good at this don't you know!
Jill