As most of you know, there is a thing called #FollowFriday that happens on Twitter.

At its purest, it has good intentions – highlight the people you like to follow on Twitter so others can get to know them too.

But, like anything else in life, people got lazy and found shortcuts and suddenly your Twitter stream every Friday was full of tweets that just had Twitter handles included without any context or reason to follow those people.

There is no value in that and, let’s be real, it’s pretty annoying.

So, on May 29, 2009, we started doing #FF a little bit differently. At first, it was a list of people in a blog post with a couple of sentences about each person. Eventually it evolved into one person per week and has become one of our most popular blog posts.

Here is the complete compilation of the 2012 recommendations. (more…)