If you are new to Twitter or are still finding your way around, then you are probably wondering what Follow Friday is all about? Every Friday Twitter is filled with tweets using the hashtag #followfriday and a list of Twitter users @twitterid @twitterid @twitterid, or a Twitter user and a promotional tweet about them.

So what is the point? Is it something you should take part in?

The majority of people that are recommended through #followfriday are QUALITY people to follow. They either promote Twitter in a very positive light, provide valuable information, or are supportive to their followers and are valued by those who recommend them. You can almost guarantee that spammers or those who add no value to Twitter won’t be recommended unless they recommend themselves!

#followfriday is a great way to give thanks to those you are following for their great tips, support, knowledge and useful tweets that they’ve sent out during the past week and recommend them to other people to follow.

To get involved all you need to do is add the hashtag #followfriday within your tweet and add the person you want to recommend by also adding their @twitterid.

There is also a website called TopFollowFriday which allows you to see the top Follow Friday recommendations. This is a great way to validate and discover quality people to follow on Twitter. It also allows you to see how many people have recommended you on Follow Friday.

Don’t be shy! Start telling your followers who you love to follow and why and get interactive with the growing Twitter community.