Now it's once again Friday and on Twitter people use to send some love to each other using the hash tag #FollowFriday (or sometimes even #FF).

So how is this working? You just tweet the hash tag and the user name of the person you think done something good. Sometimes you could also include a short explanation of why this person deserves some Follow Friday love. An
example:

#FollowFriday @HatedNation because of the fantastic commitment at Twitt.US

The idea with the follow Friday thing is to let other people to notice this person so they also can start following hime or her.

You could of course also include several people in the same #FollowFriday tweet if you like, but I prefer the above tweet with a comment.

#FollowFriday @captkirk251 @HatedNation @NotSoBright @JamesAddington

At FollowFriday.tw you can see a top list of the most popular persons receiving #FollowFridays during the last 7 days. This service is still in beta (it's just a test version) so many of the planned features are not yet implemented or may look a little bit weird at the moment, but you still get the picture of the most popular people. FollowFriday.tw is counting the number of #FollowFridays people get from other Twitter users to find out who's the most popular persons on Twitter (i.e. receiving most #FollowFriday love at the moment).

Twitter is the best mico-blogging service where users can easily tell the world short messages as soon as they happen. But the downside with Twitter is that they don't earn any money at the moment, and all Twitter fans should be concerned about this since a service that can't earn any money at all can hardly survive in the long run. I think this is one of the reasons for all the rumours that one bigger player like Facebook or even Google will acquire Twitter, but luckily they've all turned out to be just rumours An independent Twitter is much much better for the Internet then a
Twitter incorporated into one of the giants on the Net.

But since Twitter must have some kind of income to survive, what will they do? Show ads? I really hope not since that will most likely make the service load slower then today and also cause a lot of users to stop using Twitter.

Biz Stone, one of the founders of Twitter, is giving the world some clues on how Twitter will survive in the future at Reuters Global Technology Summit in New York. Twitter will start selling add-on services for companies using Twitter to communicate with their customers. The add-on services can be things like analysing tools, and special company accounts to guarantee it's the correct company behind the user name.

I think this is great and this will make Twitter even better. The users still get the service and functionality they expect from Twitter and Twitter will earn money from companies who have released how important it is to get in touch with their customers on Twitter.

As an example on how important it is to be on Twitter as a company in the modern world we can mention ComHem, a Swedish ISP offering Internet, cable TV and phone services. Recently they had a major break down in their system
causing almost all their customers to lose Internet, TV and phones for several hours. Even their own web site stopped working so they had no way to give their customers information on what was going on. Their customers started asking questions on Twitter, but since ComHem didn't use Twitter themselves they could answer…….

Later ComHem sent apologies to all their customers on Twitter and it looks like they have implemented a backup plan to contact their customers on Twitter in case this happens again. Lets just hope more companies learn from this experience.

This may come as a big surprice, but the island nation of Tuvalu is sinking!!!!

Tuvalu is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean midway between Hawaii and Australia and they have the Top Level Domain (TLD) .TV. Their TLD is marketed as a Top Level Domain perfect for companies working with TV in all ways like TV-stations and Web TV Stations. With it's high prices of $39.99 it's kind of an expensive TLD to register your domain names under, but since the nation is sinking I guess they need all the money they can get.

Now here's the funny part in all this sadness (you have to agree it's sad that the nation is sinking): Godaddy, one of the companies registering .TV domains is actually warning it's customers from registering domains under .TV since the islands are sinking (see the post at Archit.in).

So what will happen to all registered .TV domains if Tuvalu sinks? That's an interesting question and I only think that will be decided if and when the last part of Tuvalu sinks under water for good. However if we look at other TLDs like .SU  it's still existing years after the fall of Soviet Union so the chances that .TV will survive Tuvalu is good. Tuvalu could also survive as a country somewhere else on the earth since I've heard some roumours they want to buy some land…..

The good thing is that there are plenty of other good doain names you can use for your web projects like the .ME domain for example.