I automated my #FollowFriday tweets to post with a 3-minute interval. That keeps me from flooding my friends with tweets. To those against automation, I agree with you that Twitter is built to be used interactively, but it's pretty pointless for me to manually post recommendations once every 2 minutes, especially since I recommend over 100 people :). Full disclosure – I use an affiliate link in my article.

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I get a headache just trying to put it into words…lol

Then I get the headache from the mass quantity of those DMs…

It seems we have three main types of Tweeple. The Purists, the Moderates and the Commercial.

Each of these sub-groups has their own sub-groups like the commerical have the Spammers, The Porn Brokers and the Marketers. So when you get a bunch of moderates and commercials #followfriday'ing each other, the purists tend to get all huffy and #unfollowthursday them.

Personally I like a hybrid approach… I automate the tweeple I want to #FollowFriday each week, then I add a few new ones manually that I feel are particularly deserving of the #FollowFriday love. But I agree that I should add a reason for their addition into the #FollowFriday Fold.

Thanks for starting a great tradition!

Micheal @michealsavoie