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WP-FollowFriday for Twitter is a plugin that allows you to select the people you would like to recommend for #FollowFriday. However, when setting this up, I ran into some issues.

It does not ask for a password like in Twitter tools or any authorization. So, how will this connect to the user? I believe more thought and possibly allowing users connect with their Twitter account, and select users would be better. Also, I am the administrator of my blog. Somehow the plugin was telling me I did not have sufficient access to use the plugin.

Also, here is another issue, Follow Friday is not just about listing names. It is about also saying why you recommend a person to be followed. This plugin would allow people who already do not get the concept of #FollowFriday and there would literally be lists of icons, rather than why people should be followed, especially if the list has many.

This also could run into some load time issues with the blog (if the plugin were to work and the people using it list – say 50 people to follow), this would put a little strain on the Twitter API, and frankly as Twitter is known to fail whale or go down lately, or even freeze up, this plugin is not necessarily something I recommend using.

I believe this is a first time I am not recommending a plugin for use, but that is what a review is all about. Unless it is brought back to the drawing board to deal with the user unfriendliness, and altering it to be practical for those who would use the plugin as it should, then I would recommend it. I can give credit to Fabien Bouchard for at least trying to accomplish something like this to make #FollowFriday recommendations unique and easier.

Have you tried this plugin? How has it worked for you?

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