From today, the
FollowFriday ranking starts to monitor a new
hashtag:
#shoutout, apart from the existing hashtags
#ff,
#followfriday,
#cuate,
#sigueelviernes and
#vivaviernes. We’ve realized that a lot of people are using this hashtag as a way to
recommend Twitter profiles.
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The chart below -by
@trendistic- shows that
#shoutout (in yellow) is using for much more users than
#followfriday. However,
the most popular hashtag for recommending Twitter profiles is #FF!
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5RW-t8z0TGosLyKrfKlJRYMohI9cRu3EiD4RIyFog9yxsUlvPllvyZ5sDvGQLVZqVjo7xJZaf-_O5zSoOePLC9Z-mUztxqvvU0eKBb0HZ1nG_0zk2SG8tMPca6x2Ko5p7DSquXA3Z_hTG/s400/shoutout_gr%25C3%25A1fica.JPG)
As you can find out in the
ranking rules, we count all
tweets sent between Thursday 12:00 GMT and Saturday 12:00 GMT. The
#followfriday tradition makes recommendations on Fridays but we needed to extend the period to part of Thursday and Saturday in order to monitor all the countries.