Sanaa Lathan: “FollowFriday is fascinating to see how the world has been bit by the tweeting bug”

She has been acting for over 15 years: “I've been very fortunate to has a variety of roles in theater, TV and cinema”. Sanaa Lathan (@justsanaa) has just finished a run of a new play by Pulitzer prize winning playwright Lynn Nottage, called “By the way, meet Vera Stark”, at Second Stage theater in New York.

Some of her more well-known movies are Love & Basketball, Brown Sugar, Alien vs. Predator, Out of time and Something New. “I have a thriller coming out called Contagion, directed by Steven Soderbergh”. Sanaa Lathan is currently the voice of Donna on Fox's animated The Cleveland Show, nominated for an Emmy for the first time this year.

Sanaa told us, in this exclusive interview, that she has visited FollowFriday.com! “It’s fascinating to see how the world has been bit by the tweeting bug. It’s so cool to see what tweeters people are loving and a great place to find new people to follow”.

How and when did you start on Twitter and how many hours a day do you devote to this network?

I started on Twitter a couple of years ago and it took me a while to get used to it. I think I tweeted for a couple of months and the completely stopped for six months and then started up again. I'm a very private person so I had to figure out how I could tweet and maintain that.

What do you share on Twitter?

I tend to re-tweet messages that touch me or tweet things related to work. I'm probably a pretty boring tweeter. But that's the only way I'm comfortable.

We have seen that you interact a lot with your fans on Twitter. Do you enjoy it?

The fans are the best part of Twitter. They are constantly putting a smile on my face. I'm very appreciative of the continual love and support.

You don’t follow to much people on Twitter, so what is your criteria to follow on Twitter? We’d love to hear from you two or three tweeters recommendations.

I don't have a criteria for who I follow. I should probably follow more people. Lately I've been having fun with astrology. @astrologyzone is a good one if you're in to that. And I love @greatestquotes. They always have inspirational quotes that I love.

74-years-old American comedienne in the top #FF ranking

The #FFtrends July 1st

Ruth Ann Buzzi’s fans have positioned her in the 1st place of the celebs ranking

She is 74-years-old and since almost a year she’s on Twitter. The American comedienne and actress Ruth Ann Buzzi (@ruth_a_buzzi) has been the number 1 in the celebrities FollowFriday ranking, the 2nd globally and in the US ranking.

Ruth doesn't have too much followers or popularity such as others celebs like Lady Gaga (@ladygaga), for example (and she knows this! look at the tweet below), but has conquered an excellent place in the ranking.

Lisa Lampanelli (@lisalampanelli) recognized the merit of Ruth by writing:

The #FF recommendations that Ruth has received are funny like she is...

The actress is especially known for her performances on the comedy-variety show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In from 1968 to 1973. You can see the video below, in which she appears with Frank Sinatra. LOL!

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Indonesia’s Twitter Ghost becomes viral

The #FFtrends May 27

An urban legend from Indonesia, the 1st in the followfriday.com worldwide ranking - @poconggg is the account of an Indonesian "ghost" that got the top global followfriday.com ranking! Pocong is a mass phenomenon in this country that has become very popular on social media, especially on Twitter and Facebook. This “paranormal” has more than 370,000 followers in Twitter and he boasts over 26,000 fans on Facebook. In followfriday.com ranking, Pocong has won 28195 points!

Originally a frightening urban legend about a dead man trapped in their suit (have a look at his Twitter avatar!), this “ghost” is not an object of fear. The profile has been created just “for fun”. The popularity of the “ghost” will probably grow with news on his blog that Pocong will publish a book, and that he will mention his followers names in the book.

Last month the “paranormal” announced on Twitter that he would appear in a shopping mall in South Jakarta, and that people who wanted to be mentioned in his book should come and show their Twitter username on paper. The reaction was amazing! Draw your own conclusions.

The effort of Aiden Grimshaw’s fans - Last year the teenager Aiden Grimshaw was one of the finalists of “The X Factor”, a British television singing competition. His popularity remains high! His fans don’t measure efforts to promote his profile on Twitter: @Mr_Grimshaw has more than 250,000 followers and the account is the number 9 on the celebrities followfriday.com ranking. Congrats!


Barcelona versus Manchester United also on Twitter - Duel final Champions League between Barcelona and Manchester United also had their version on Twitter. The Catalan club won on the followfriday.com ranking too! @FCBarcelona_es is the number 7 on the celebrities ranking, and number 5 in Spain, while Rio Ferdinand (@rioferdy5), the most popular Marchester’s player on Twitter, is the number 10 on this ranking (and the number 3 in the UK ranking).

#FFtrends: new weekly section in our blog!

Today we are releasing a new section in our blog: #FFtrends! Each week we will post the news of the followfriday.com ranking, and we will discover what facts have led to its appearance among the most recommended in Twitter. The hashtag we have created (#FFtrends) will provide your tracking information every Friday.

Each Monday we will post a summary of relevant (and curious!) news relating to the previous Friday. You will find a sample of what we consider trends relating to #followfriday!

The #FFtrends May 20

• 81-year-old man who thinks that Twitter is Google - @oldmansearch is supposedly an 81-year-old man who thinks that Twitter is Google. His account isn't even a month old and he's amassed almost 100,000 followers. At least a curious profile that has conquered the 13th on the followfriday.com worldwide ranking and the 7th on English ranking.

• Boyband The Wanted premiere new single “Glad You Came” - The Wanted has just released the new single from their second album: “Glad You Came”. #GladYouCame has been these days on the Twitter trends worldwide. The official account of the band @thewantedmusic and its five members have been among of the top 13 UK followfriday.com ranking. The most popular is undoubtedly @JayTheWanted, number 5 in the ranking, followed by @NathanTheWanted (6th), @TomTheWanted (7th), @SivaTheWanted (12th) and @MaxTheWanted (13th).

• Lady Gaga beats Oprah Winfrey - The 25-year-old pop icon is now the number 1 in the Forbes' "World's Most Powerful Celebrities", beating Oprah Winfrey, now the number 2 of this ranking. In our ranking, @ladygaga is the number 10 globally, 2nd in the US ranking and 4th in the Celebrities ranking. Not bad! The reason that Lady Gaga has climbed the Forbes list is... Twitter. The pop star is the number 1 on the social media ranking!

• The “gleeks” and their #followfriday campaign - The fans of Glee (a musical television series that airs on Fox), commonly referred to as "gleeks", made a kind of campaign via his Twitter account (@UltimateGleeks) to get a good followfriday.com ranking position. The claim was “Win two vip Meet & greet tickets to any #GLEE LIVE tour stop of your choice?”. And to participate the user had to tweet: #FF @UltimateGleeks for the BEST #GLEE News & Giveaways! They did very well! @UltimateGleeks is the number 4 on the global followfriday.com ranking and the number 2 on English ranking.