Since it is Friday and I am often asked what this is, I thought I would just put up a quick post on Follow Friday, or as we denote this on Twitter as #followfriday.

#followfriday is a fun sort of game/Twitter trend to engage people to follow your recommended users and assist others in finding new and interesting Tweeps, or Twitter Peeps. Tweeps are people with a mutual following.

It follow the use of “Hashtags”, which are used to identify a “topic” on Twitter. You simply add # in front of what you want to identify as a topic for search. Other hashtags we use a lot are #GeekGirlCamp when talking about GGC, and a very cool hashtag compbination is what we use on StockTwits that denote stick tickers and this is done two ways. First, you may post to the stream by preceding a stock symbol with the $ like this: $AMZN . If you are focusing on a specific symbol, this is the best method to use as it allows us to organize posts according to the stock symbol. Second, if you are making a general comment about the markets or providing market commentary and are not mentioning a specific stock, FX or futures symbol, then enter two dollar signs after a space at the end of your post like this $$ .

With #followfriday, you will be able to find recommended Tweeps that you may want to follow. Others may recommend you and all of a sudden you may suddenly start getting a lot of follows. This is good! It means someone has recommended you enough that others who follow that person who suggested is a resource thet trust.

As an example, here are some of my suggestions of fellow Geek Girl Speakers: #followfriday @GeekGirlCamp , @NellieDK , @ReikoB , @WritingRoads , @repcor , @LesaFumi , @LaurelA and lots more!

So where do you find the search results for #followfriday ? Simply by going here to the Twitter Search for the topic, you can see everyone who is participating and who they think is worthy of a #followfriday.

So who are my #followfriday picks this week? I guess you’ll just have to follow my tweets to see! But, here is a sure bet: @mashable – best social media news updates. Period. And @StockTwits , because I mentioned them here.

Who are your #followfriday picks? List them below so we can all check out some new and interesting Tweeps!