How to Follow Someone on Twitter

When you follow someone on Twitter, this means you want to subscribe to that person's tweets. That person's updates will always show up on your Twitter home page. For example, if you were to follow Pete, you will receive Pete's tweets on your own home page. Additionally, when following someone, the person you follow will be given permission to send you private tweets. These are called "direct messages". You can see how many people you are following as well as how many people are following you on your profile page.

When you start tweeting, you should always check out who is following you on your following page. It is only good etiquette that if you follow someone, they should follow you as well. Generally, you should un-follow those people who don't follow you in return after about three days or so.

So, What is a Follower, anyway?

These are the people who will have your updates show up on their Twitter home page. Those who are following you will also receive your tweets on their phone or application if they have it set up to do that. Basically, you can think of it like this: If you click on follow on someone's home page, you are now his or her follower.

How do you know you are following someone?

After clicking "Follow" on a person's profile, you're automatically following them and that person will show up in your "Following" list. You will notice that the button will change color to a green check mark indicating that you are following that person.

How to determine who is following you

You will get an email from Twitter immediately when someone decides to follow you. You'll have to set up your email preferences to let Twitter know where to send you follower updates to you. Your followers actually link to your profile page, which is located on the sidebar, and you can always visually determine how many followers you have.

Is there a way I can ask someone to follow me?

Unfortunately, Twitter is a little different than other social sites like Facebook. There isn't a way do actually ask someone to follow you. Some tweeters use the @reply feature on twitter to ask people to follow them, but this usually doesn't turn in to a new follower. The best way to gain friends and followers on Twitter is to use it. Follow those who follow you and others should follow you if you are following them. You can reply to tweets from your followers that are interesting to you and people will see that you are actively engaged and your followers will increase over time.

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