Thursday, June 2, 2011

Some practices that can make you become an invalid user for the ranking

Last week we made some updates of the FollowFriday.com ranking rules, to maintain the purity of the ranking and ensure that it is free of manipulation and is a true reflection of those valuable recommendations made.

However, there is another set of criteria that our quality team manually applied which are aimed at eliminating from the ranking those users who tweet in order to receive more recommendations than they would normally deserve.

Below we explain some methods that can make you become an invalid user for the ranking:
  • One of the rules is about the number of recommendations that a user can make. Each user can make up to 50 recommendations per week. However, there are users who send tweets outside the time stipulated for recommendations to be considered (between Thursday 12:00 GMT and Saturday 12:00 GMT). This practice leads to behavior that is not considered genuine for the ranking.
  • According to the ranking rules, if our team detects there are a lot of accounts that are working together to promote themselves artificially, they will be banned automatically. Respect to this point, we would like to add that not only users who collaborate with each other can be cancelled, but also those who create multiple accounts to promote one specific profile.
  • The ranking monitors tweets that include one of these hashtags: #ff, #followfriday, #cuate, #sigueelviernes, #vivaviernes and #shoutout. However, we have identified some people who use different hashtags to make recommendations which are not counted within the maximum of 50. Many users return a recommendation made with a different hashtag by using a monitored hashtag, detracting value from this recommendation.
  • Include any monitored hashtag in a tweet in which there is no recommendation of anybody also violates the spirit of the ranking which is to be as spontaneous as possible.
  • Moving from one country to another where there is less "competition" is also considered a practice which is penalised. To avoid confusion, make sure you appear in the correct rankings.
  • Finally, asking for recommendations via DM or filling your timeline with requests are also considered unfriendly practices in line with the followfriday.com objectives.

These are not the only possible methods of breaking the rules and for this reason any fraudulent attempt to manipulate the ranking will be penalized.

If you think you have been unjustly banned, you can contact us by completing this form and explaining your action. Our team will review each case individually and reinstate those accounts that we consider OK.


Now, with our new FFValidator tool, you can check if a #followfriday recommendation is valid for the FollowFriday Ranking and how much it is worth.

8 comments:

  1. CE QUI EST DIFFICILE C'EST LES 50. SI TU AS BEAUCOUP d' AMIS FOLLOWER TWITTER, 50 C'EST REDUCTEUR. LE SYSTEM POURRAIT DONNER 5 DE PLUS PAR TRANCHES DE 5000 FOLLOWERS. EXEMPLES POUR 20000 FOLLOWERS --> 50+ 4(5) -->70 20TwitterUsers Recognized .
    Bon FF
    Michel @Sulpin

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  2. I DIDNT GAVE ANY FollowFriday not today nor yesterday!! This is abuse and it happened also the past fridayand i have reported the situation to the contact on followfriday page !
    CHECK MY TWITTER PAGE and my twitter ranking any of the FF s there have given by me! This is Abuse!

    @apombalivre

    http://www.followfriday.com/followfriday/apombalivre

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  3. NO! I HAVE not used any of those hastags!!!
    #ff, #followfriday, #cuate, #sigueelviernes, #vivaviernes.

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  4. PLS.Check those . Thers NOT EVEN FF THERE. NOR IN ANY OF MY TWEETS. This is really geetting weird and nasty.
    And it TOTALLY SUCKS!

    http://twitter.com/#!/apombalivre/status/117035499104907264
    http://twitter.com/#!/apombalivre/status/117034000765296642
    http://twitter.com/#!/apombalivre/status/117033573667717120

    http://twitter.com/#!/apombalivre/status/117033479883075585

    http://twitter.com/#!/apombalivre/status/117032630612013056

    http://twitter.com/#!/apombalivre/status/117033380226412544
    http://twitter.com/#!/apombalivre/status/117034000765296642

    http://twitter.com/#!/apombalivre/status/117032458385506304

    http://twitter.com/#!/apombalivre/status/117032188930822144

    http://twitter.com/#!/apombalivre/status/116954919394754560


    http://twitter.com/#!/apombalivre/status/117031028022968320

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  5. Hi,
    We've detected that you are using our new hashtag: #shoutout. Since last week the ranking monitors this hashtag, too. Have a look at this post, please: http://blog.followfriday.com/2011/09/new-hashtag-in-ranking-shoutout.html
    Our system doesn't fail when it detects the users who have done more than 50 recommendations!
    Thanks,

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  6. What??? Well I ll tell you this: Its an ABUSE.Your Abuse because even so it doesnt give that number! Its Your mistake and you dont accept it. Thanks for nothing.

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  7. Why hashtag #shoutout? This one don't addicted to FollowFriday! That's common purpose marker..

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  8. This is now set up for celebrities and pompous unfriendly people who receive promotion without giving it! You also are lazily including associated hashtags from the week in your Thurs to Sat algorithms, cutting your work efforts. The new hashtag rules circumvent Twitter courtesy & proper etiquette!

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