Twitter Goes Green on #EcoMonday – 100 Plus Green To Follow On On Twitter

May 1, 2009 By 6 Comments

Last Friday I read an interesting piece on Mashable Beyond #FollowFriday: 24 Daily Twitter Memes. Memes on Twitter are hashtags to help you keep track of a topic on Twitter – #green and #greentweets are ones I commonly use in my Twitter stream, to label items that might be of interest to the green community.

Now, like popular memes on blogs, a number of Twitter memes have gone weekly. The most well known is #Followfriday. To use it Twitterers simply list some of their favorite folks to follow and add the hastags #followfriday.

My first thought after reading this article was, “Wow, wouldn’t it be great if we had a #followfriday like tag for the green community?”

Over the weekend though, while I was playing around with ideas like #sustainable saturday and #greentuesday my blogger buddy and green web strategist, Rob Reed of @maxgladwell fame came up with #EcoMonday, which appeared early Monday morning and spurred hundreds of Twitter fans to recommend their favorite green Twitter streams.

To keep the momentum going, Rob has also set up an @ecomonday account on Twitter, where you can look for the most recommended green Tweople to follow. @Ecomonday will only follow those that follow @Ecomonday and those who are recommended in the meme.

Rob told me a total of 230 people were recommended on this first ecomonday. I’d say it’s off to a great start! (Use the new sidebar Twittersearch on your Twitter page to find #ecomonday recommendations from last week or check out @ecoMonday)

Since I wrote this post on Top 10 in Green You Should Follow on Twitter a few months ago, I’ve found more and more folks with great information, recommendations and analysis of the green movement. Who do you follow in the green Twitterverse?

Let us know in the comments who you follow in green and who you’re going to recommend on this #ecomonday!

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Comments

  1. John Simonetta says:
    May 1, 2009 at 6:52 am

    I already signed us up – http://twitter.com/ProformaGreen. Thanks for sharing.

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  2. Max Gladwell says:
    May 1, 2009 at 7:39 am

    Thanks for the post, Maryanne! #ecomonday is off to a great start. We’d be remiss if we didn’t credit http://www.twitter.com/sheagunther for his key role in starting this very important meme. While FollowFriday is a good start, it’s just too noisy for those who are primarily concerned with green Tweets. We’re hoping that the #ecomonday tag and @ecomonday account can become an organizing force for the green Twitter community.

    Should also mention that the @ecomonday account only follows those who are referred (or more referrals) through the #ecomonday hashtag. It won’t follow you back just b/c you follow. You must have either been referred or make a referral via #ecomonday. So it’s a unique filter mechanism. You know that anyone @ecomonday follows has either been recommended by a third party or has recommended others. Of course, we monitor the stream and will unfollow if someone is spammy or not relevant.

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  3. Starre Vartan says:
    May 1, 2009 at 8:35 am

    I participated in the first ecomonday and it was a GREAT way to find all the greenies I don’t already know. Thanks to @sheagunther and @maxgladwell for their great idea and follow-through! :)

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  4. smilinggreenmom says:
    June 12, 2010 at 8:20 am

    Thanks! Just linked to you on Twitter for a new greenie who needed some help :) Great info! @smilinggreenmom

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