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#followfriday is a phenomenon in the Twitter community. Essentially, people are tweeting about interesting people that they follow on Twitter to promote and share them with their own followers. In doing this they’re helping to promote and grow their own network.

So you’re following all these new and interesting people, and many of them are probably following you back to find out what you’re all about which leads to an email from Twitter telling you about it.

The email is pretty basic. Here’s an example:

Hi, Chuck Fitzpatrick (chuckfitz).

RedCross (American Red Cross) is now following your updates on Twitter.

Check out RedCross’s profile here:
http://twitter.com/RedCross

The first thing you’re probably going to do is click on the profile link to learn more about who that is. That’s where Twimailer comes in. It’s a middle-man replacement for the basic email that you normally get from Twitter directly. Check out this screen shot of the email I get now.

The Twimailer email has all of the info you were going to go look up anyway right there in front of you.

• Profile picture
• Full name
• Last 10 tweets
• Number of people they are following
• Number of followers
• Their bio information

Plus it still has the link to their page so you can follow them back. Of course, that’s if they don’t have crazy following and follower counts and their last 10 tweets were about the get-rich-quick plan they want to sell you.

Check out Twimailer and let me know what you think in the comments. And if you want to celebrate #followfriday you can always follow ImpactWatch or me!

Tags: followfriday, twimailer, Twitter

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