How to Follow Someone on Twitter

If you have a laptop and are a social person, chances are you already have either or all Facebook, Twitter, and/or MySpace profiles. Now some people are content with what friends they know and have at the moment. Others, such as yourself, like to expand their horizon and get to know as many people as they can possibly find. For people who like to keep up with the world and make new friends, these social networking sites are perfect. But instead of talking about all the sites, for the purpose of this article, we will be concentrating only on Twitter. And more specifically, we are going to go over the details on how to follow someone on Twitter.

If you already have an account, then you probably already know how does Twitter work. (If you do not have a profile page in Twitter, get one right now otherwise this article will be of no use). Once you have an active Twitter profile, you can easily begin.

What Does "Following Someone" Mean?

First and foremost, let's understand what "following someone" means on Twitter. This "someone" can be a person (your friend or a celebrity), a group, or business. Following here means that you will receive updates from this "someone". This person, group, or business, after signing in, may wish to tweet or publish something on their profile page. Hence, once they do so, anyone and everyone who follows them will immediately obtain them. These updates come in a form of tweets - a 140 characters message. So depending on the person, group, or business that you follow, you will be informed about their tweets on a regular basis once you sign-in into your account. Now that you have an understanding as to what following really means, we will go over the details on how you can follow an individual on Twitter.

Following Someone on Twitter

Basically, there are 2 methods which can be used to follow a person on Twitter. I don't want to confuse anyone here, so I will try to explain this as easily as I can.

Method #1
The first method is very straightforward. All you need to do is click on the person, group, or business's profile. Once you reach their page, you will need to search for the "Follow" button. At the bottom of the page, this button is below the person, group, or business's username. When you locate this button, click on it and you can easily follow them now.

Method #2
The second method is also easy to understand. On a given Twitter page, if you locate this person, group, or business's name, take your mouse pointer on it. Place the cursor on the right side of their profile picture. When you do so, information about this person, group, or business will be displayed. Along with this, you will also see the "Follow" button. Click on the button and follow them. Simple.

Many times, there are some users who wish to keep their profile page private. In such cases, you won't be able to choose the "Follow" button to access their tweets. In order to know if a user has set his/her profile as private, there will be a message like this - I'm only giving updates to friends. When you see this message, there will be another message that will ask you if you would like to "Add" this user. You will be required to click on this button in order to follow that particular user's tweets. Now if that particular "someone" wishes that others can view their tweets, he/she has to approve each user in order to follow them. Once this happens, you will see their tweets.

Now that you know how Twitter's "follow" function works, perhaps you too might wish to get some followers of your own. To help you achieve this, read the Buzzle article how to get more Twitter followers. There are many more interesting facets of Twitter and you'd be surprised as to how fun and impressive this site can really get. Have fun while you're at it and make sure you don't put a lot of spam on the Twitter board. (You'll get thrown out).