@XH558 (http://www.twitter.com/xh558)
I’ll admit this looks a strange ID but it is the registration of the only remaining airworthy Avro Vulcan. The Vulcan was originally introduced into the Royal Air Force fleet in the 1950s as part of the British Cold War arsenal and if you have ever seen it fly, it is an awesome sight. A Vulcan famously bombed Port Stanley during the 1982 Falklands War (read the book “Vulcan 607″ – its incredible) and was taken out of service shortly after. XH558 was sold to a private company and after much hard work and fund raising, it has taken to the skies again. Follow @XH558 for news and updates to see when it takes to the skies. They also have a website – http://www.vulcantothesky.org/

@ShellyKramer (http://www.twitter.com/ShellyKramer)
Very active on Twitter with great conversation and some excellent links to sites offering good advice about business online. WARNING: Don’t go near Shelly if you are a spammer, she doesn’t take prisoners !!!

@SomakHolidays (http://www.twitter.com/SomakHolidays)
A UK holiday company who really understand social media. Will happily chat with you plus some good travel info too.

As the 3rd Ashes test between England and Australia approaches, cricket fans may want to follow David ‘Bumble’ Lloyd’s insight to goings on in this epic sporting clash.

http://www.twitter.com/BumbleCricket

Phil Packer was injured while serving in Iraq in 2008. In the last year, he has been an inspiration to others and despite his injuries, he has completed a number of physical challenges raising over £1m for Help for Heroes.

http://www.twitter.com/PhilPacker

I’m trying not to recommend the same people every week (that would just be boring). My aim is to find new people for you. If you want to look for previous recommendations, just search for the ‘followfriday’ category.

http://www.twitter.com/BritishMonarchy

The Royal Family have just entered the world of Twitter. Don’t expect HRH Elizabeth II to be tweeting updates about the Royal Corgis as the account is run by teams at Buckingham Palace and Clarence House and give information about royal engagements and other updates.

http://www.twitter.com/jayxtreme

Been a bit quiet in recent weeks but he’s back with a good mix of social and business help tweets

http:///www.twitter.com/NikkiPilkington

Been looking back at Nikki’s TweetMentor course and she has really delivered with this. Even if you don’t buy her course, Nikki has lots of good info about how to get the most out of Twitter (including a great idea about putting #followfriday on a blog).

http://www.twitter.com/ClaireHammond

Claire is a great social tweeter. Lots of good links and RTs (re-tweets) and always ready to have a bit of a chat.

Thats all for now.

Have a great weekend and don’t forget, if you want to follow me on Twitter, click on the little birdy on the side bar.

The idea is that you recommend a few people to follow (simple enough).

However, as Twitter has grown more and more popular, #followfriday has almost turned into a wave of spam with lists of Twitter IDs.

One of the people I follow is Nikki Pilkington (http://www.twitter.com/NikkiPilkington) and for a while Nikki (and others) have been trying to encourage people to include a reason why they should follow the people they recommend.

This week, Nikki has taken it a step further and is using her blog to recommend people for #followfriday. She just includes a link to the blog post and the advantage is that the restriction of 140 chars is gone.

I think this is a great idea and I’m giving it a go to so here are my #followfriday recommendations for Friday 3rd July 2009:

http://www.twitter.com/PerryBelcher

Perry really knows social media and is well worth following as he gives a lot of good tips and links to help you.

http://www.twitter.com/SteveWeber

If you want to learn more about Adsense, Steve is a good guy to follow. He’s got some great information on his websites and is happy to answer any questions you may want to direct at him

http://www.twitter.com/JULIANBRAY

Julian is a UK based broadcaster who has some good views on current affairs in the UK.

http://www.twitter.com/GuidoFawkes

An insider into the workings of the UK Parliament and doesn’t show any political bias on his blog.

http://www.twitter.com/ClaireHammond

Claire is a lovely, friendly person who is happy to chat with you and brings a bit of light to your day with some jokes she has managed to dig out from the web.

http://www.twitter.com/ExplorerTravel

This is my own UK based travel business and we send out a lot of travel related news and offers every day

http://www.twitter.com/NailSpecialist

My wife is a nail technician and is just breaking into the world of Twitter. She has some excellent info on her blog about nail art and also caring for your nails.

http://www.twitter.com/NikkiPilkington

Finally, Nikki. She is a superstar and has given me a lot of guidance with her in depth knowledge of how to get the most from Twitter. Her Tweetmentor course is excellent so if you are serious about Twitter, you have to follow Nikki

So thats it for my first #followfriday blog post. In future, I’ll try to recommend people who have caught my eye during the previous week.

Have a great weekend