You may have seen our post earlier today – you may even have listened in, but if you didn’t, we’ve been using the call-in podcasting tool, BlogTalkRadio to create a weekly participatory podcast.
In this week’s edition, we batted around the idea of repositioning Twitter’s constant trending topic, Follow Friday, usually branded #FollowFriday or #FF, as Feedback Friday, or #FeedbackFriday.
The idea is simply that if you’re unsure about whether you’re using Twitter – or any other social networking service – to its fullest potential, you can put word out there that you’re open to feedback.
During today’s conversation, we talked about a lot of Twitter habits that both die hard and need to die, like oversharing, overtweeting, and overmentioning.
Do you have one of those people on your Twitter feed who only ever tweets about having a bad day? Or stuff going wrong? Or maybe one of those people whose every tweet is a hardly legible string of @ symbols and Twitter handles and long, unruly hyperlinks? Or perhaps someone on your list commits the greatest crime of them all – answering literally the question “What are you doing?”
Wouldn’t you like to tell them that you don’t care?
We don’t claim to be Twitter experts. In fact, that’s kind of the point of this whole expedition thing – we’re all figuring it out and exploring social media together. And with that in mind, we think there’s a more constructive use of our Fridays than just another long list of Twitter handles of people whose only commonality may be that you follow them. So we’re going to reclaim the #ff and transform it from “follow Friday” to “feedback Friday.”
We think there’s a more constructive use of our Fridays than just listing people we follow. Feedback Friday.
During the week, post a tweet when you see things that make you crazy. Then on Friday, let your followers know that you’re willing to hear some feedback on your social media presence. If you want it, say you do, and commit to give constructive feedback to at least two people. Then tweet that you gave feedback to a friend as part of #feedbackfriday and let’s see if we can make the trend of becoming better Tweeters catch on.
To really get the ball rolling, we’ll be hosting a PodCast on Friday to talk about the concept and the ideas behind it. It’ll be a call in show on Blog Talk Radio so we’ll want to hear your thoughts, too.
