November 2010
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FollowFormation & Wong Fu Productions present...
FollowFormation, meet Wong Fu Productions, a growing independent production group. Sharing their roots at UC San Diego, friends and dormmates Wesley Chan, Ted Fu, and Philip Wang started making internet videos in 2003. Today, their Youtube videos have a combined 38,000,000 views; they are #73 all time most subscribed on Youtube. They are one of the most successful examples of using “new media”...
September 2010
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Followformation & OAuth. What does it mean?
A little while back, Twitter initiated what was dubbed the “OAuthcalypse”. This means that Twitter had deactivated all forms of authentication (including the traditional username password method that we have been using since Followformation’s launch, as we had initially theorized would increase usage through pure simplicity).
Which means that as of now, Followformation web...
April 2010
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Follow Chirp with Followformation for iPhone
Big updates are here! We’re very excited to officially announce this today.
Followformation has pushed out its very own iPhone app! You can now follow all the top people on Twitter by location, interest, and soon many other things - all on the go. So why an iPhone app?
Here’s a breakdown by bulletpoints for improved efficiency and clarity:
Includes categories unique to followformation...
March 2010
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Closing Ceremonies: Fofo Olympic Edition
As marked by the extinguishing of the Olympic flame in Vancouver, the 2010 Winter Olympic games are now over. We’ve reverted Followformation back to the original default view: follow by interest; but we will preserve the Olympic category tab for the next week due to its popularity.
We hope you enjoyed the games as much as we did, Please do subscribe to our mailing list on the front page of...
February 2010
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Followformation Olympic Edition
Today we are pleased to announce the release of Followformation Olympic Edition! We’ve been working on this for the last little while and we’re proud to finally be able to show it off.
Followformation Olympic Edition is what it is: an olympic-focused edition of Followformation that has hand-curated categories with the best on Twitter that are tweeting about the Olympics, in the...
January 2010
5 posts
Followformation has updated its algorithm
We are happy to announce that Followformation has updated its aggregation algorithm to reflect a better pool of factors beyond follow count. Some of the factors considered are now follow/follower ratios, listed numbers, retweet ratios, and klout ranking. We’ll be tweaking things over the next few days so please bear with us and please feel free to report any bugs or issues if you see any.
So How is Followformation Better?
Just today, Twitter announced their new version of the “Suggested Users List”. We’re very happy that they’ve finally had the chance to sit down and map out an alarmingly similar tool that will help new users follow get started with Twitter. Complete with a “special” compiled “Haiti” category. Thanks guys!
So rather than let those quick-to-judge to...
Helping #Haiti the Followformation Way
As you are well aware, the relief efforts in the wake of the Haiti earthquake needs your support. Today we are announcing the addition of a special category to the front page of Followformation in an effort to help raise awareness and help keep users informed of the latest news and updates from the devastated country. This category contains a list of curated Twitter accounts that range from...
December 2009
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150,000!
Around 30 hours ago, Followformation passed a milestone that we’re all very proud of: our 150,000th follow. Hip hip hooray!
Non-profit: We Welcome The Dalai Lama Center to...
We are also pleased to announce today that The Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education has been added to Followformation’s “Non-profit” category.
All positions in the Non-profit category are hand-picked on the basis of an application process and are all pro bono spots. The Dalai Lama Center joins the Heart and Stroke Foundation and the BC Children’s Hospital Foundation...
Best Buy Canada President Added to the Formation
Followformation is pleased to announce that after high performance as a custom category, “Business” has been promoted to the front page of Followformation.
Along with this promotion, Best Buy Canada’s President, Mike Pratt, has also been added as a featured lister. We are very glad to have him on board the Formation!
Followformation + UBC Student Leadership...
Today we’re also announcing that Followformation’s own Brian Wong will be a Featured Presenter at the University of British Columbia’s Student Leadership Conference, the campus’ largest annual conference. Over 500 tickets have already been sold. Grab yours now!
Check out Followformation's London feature... →
When we were in London a few months ago for FOWA, we had the pleasure of chatting with Intruders.tv about our platform and our tool.
November 2009
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Followformation - featured Adobe success story -... →
October 2009
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100,000!!!
We’re nearing a very cool milestone here at Followformation. We’re just about to hit 100,000 follows using the Followformation service. We’ve got a cool celebration campaign we’re working on, so stay tuned!
Twitter Lists API and Twists
We’re very glad that Twitter’s finally opened up about their super area 51 feature, and we’re glad to announce that we’re working with an early version of the API to build into Twists. We’ll be using Twitter’s integrated feature back end with the incredibly intuitive and powerful embed features of our front end. If you’re interested in trying our private...
September 2009
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Followformation: September Updates - Non-profits...
While we’re hard at work on our Twists feature, there are a few quick updates I’d like to share with you today.
We’ve been shuffling around our categories and we’ve finally added in a non-profit category that aggregates all the spots we’ve approved for quite possibly the most awesome non-profits that are currently on Twitter right now. We’ve been in touch...
Followformation announces category sponsor Mogo...
As many of you probably may have noticed by now, there is a brand spanking new “Finance” category on Followformation. That’s because Mogo Money has become the first “Finance” category sponsor for Followformation, helping bring Finance tweeters to the forefront. More information about this can be found here.
“Mogo is Canada’s #1 online lender. Mogo aims to...
Check out 140tc in LA!
We’ll be paneling at 140tc conference in LA this September 22nd-23rd. More information can be found here: http://parnassusgroup.com/twitterconference/?140tc
August 2009
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All Glitches, Gone! =)
To those who have been experiencing intermittent glitches with the service, we have been working on a fix for the past little while and we can confidently say that everything is working smoothly now! If you have any questions or concerns though, feel free to holler us at hello ‘at’ followformation.com. Cheers to everyone!!
Learn how to use Followformation with this... →
“I have butterflies, but I have to make my butterflies fly in formation”. -...”
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Things are looking up!
Well, looks like Twitter is back. Ping us if you are experiencing anymore problems, and we’ll try our best to help!
Twitter is down... so Fofo is sad
Twitter is still limping back to life after a denial-of-service attack, so expect sporadic performance. All Twitter apps that use the API are affected, and unfortunately we’re one of them. In the meantime, here are 10 things you can do when Twitter is down.
Followformation: "Para tirar melhor proveito do... →
July 2009
25 posts
Top 7 Solutions for New Twitter Users (for...
The boomerang effect of Twitter is the phenomena of new users signing up for Twitter, getting completely lost in the service, leaving it, only to come back a few short months later. But what’s causing these new Twitter users (we call them “chirpers”) to leave? Here are the top problems and solutions that we hope will help break the boomerang trend. 1) I don’t know who to...
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“Super-Charge Your Twittering with FollowFormation - Fast Company”
– http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/chris-dannen/techwatch/super-charge-your-twittering-followformation
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We would love to hear how fofo has helped you!
We’re working on a compilation of stories from around the world of how fofo has helped you on Twitter. Anything works. One of our users was absolutely ecstatic about being able to follow all the top skateboarding tweeters instantly.
“Boarders. All followed. One click. Ho-ly sh***. What is this thing?”
Please send in your stories to hello ‘at’ followformation.com...
#AMHF Helping homelessness
Today we are helping @BJmendelson (a.k.a. the “most followed regular guy on Twitter”) to promote his #AMHF “A Million High Fives” campaign to help homelessness.
“A Million High Fives is a crowdfunded, social publishing project about empowering volunteers around the world to collect items for their local shelter and charities.”
Brandon plans to leverage his...
Launch day: some interesting statistics
Now that the dust has (sort of) settled - let’s look back at how launch day looked like:
Over 14,000+ follows through the Followformation tool.
Over 57+ tweets on average per hour mentioning “Followformation”.
14+ blog posts about Followformation.
65+ Delicious bookmarks.
4+ foreign language blog posts (Italian, Dutch, German, Spanish)
Here were the top categories...
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“When all is said and done, FollowFormation is an easy way indeed to meet up with...”
– http://www.killerstartups.com/Web-App-Tools/followformation-com-make-following-make-sense
“Flying in formation in no longer an activity exclusive to migrating birds. You...”
– http://inventorspot.com/articles/migrate_followformation_30351
