How to tell if someone is following you back on Twitter?

It sounds a bit weird wanting to know if someone is following you back? Imagine wanting to know this in the real world, you would be going paranoid, and possibly be thinking that you had a stalker following you. But yes it is true, we all want people to follow us, but only on Twitter of course!

If you don’t know what Twitter is by now, where have you been? Twitter has turned into a worldwide phenomenon and has stepped up with the big boys of websites. It has a totally different way of socially networking people from all over the world. You can “tweet” to your followers, in other words let them know exactly what you are doing at that precise moment. Now you might be thinking to yourself, “why would you want to know what anyone was doing?”. Well believe it or not everyone wants to know.

If you followed me on Twitter, you would see tweets about computer tips and others that I have. You would know when a new article is published and any news updates. People are following me because they are interested in learning about computers and the internet.

When you get involved in Twitter and start following some people of your own, some will follow you back and others will not. In my computer world I followed around 400 people that had anything to do with computers because this is who I wanted to network to. But did they follow me back. No. Only around 100 people followed me back so I decided to delete the un-followers. This is your chance to follow me on Twitter.

PLEASE NOTE: This Twitter tutorial is slightly out of date as Twitter has changed its website. Here is an updated article on how to see who is following you on Twitter. You still tell if someone is following you by seeing if you can direct message them, however it is just done in a different way. In the first screen shot below, you still need to follow that step. The second screen shot does not apply now as the website has changed. At the bottom of this article I have placed an updated video to show you how to see if someone is following you back on Twitter. This video was made in January 2011.

First you need to who you are following?

Here is a screenshot of my Twitter homepage. It shows clearly that I am following 311 people. To see who they are simply press on the following link below the number. I have circled the number and link below. This will show you who you are following.

following you back on Twitter

How to see if the people your are following are following you back?

Now we want to see who is following back. Next to every name there is a little drop down menu you can press on. See in the screenshot below, there are four items on this menu including Direct message “name of person you are following” There is the clue right there. You cannot direct message a person that is not following you. So this person is obviously following me.

who is following you on twitter

In the screenshot below as you can see I have clicked on the action menu for another person and have found that I cannot direct message them. This means that they are not following me back. If you wish to unfollow that person then choose the Unfollow option from the menu.

who is not following you on twitter

New updated video on how to see if someone is following you back?

In the first part of the video it shows how to find people to follow, which is quite easy now as Twitter is putting them right in front of your face. In the second half of the video it will show how you can see if someone is following you back on Twitter. It is the same way as explained above, but everything just looks different because it is updated.

Notes on how to see if someone is following you back:

  • There is absolutely no harm in leaving people on your follow list that do not follow you back.
  • There are so many interesting people on Twitter, you can’t help but follow them.
  • Here’s another cool tutorial about Twitter: How to remove those annoying Twitter applications.

I hope this tutorial showed clearly how you can see if someone is following you back on Twitter?

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My name is Milica Pantic but everyone calls me Mitz. …I am a computer freak but I do not always talk in tech language. Hope you enjoy my website and learn everything you need to know in an easy to understand way.. If you like what you see please join: Follow Tips4pc On Twitter | Become A Facebook Fan | Subscribe RSS Feed | Tips4pc Youtube Channel

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Mo Mastafa October 16, 2012 at 9:38 am

Good point about the DM option and seeing if you can send them a message.

Didn’t think to check it. Thanks for sharing.
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Mahendra March 14, 2012 at 12:42 pm

Its a Nice Post. I was looking to find out who is following me, so that I can follow them.
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Suresh February 19, 2012 at 1:49 pm

I had tried your method, but still takint ime and confusing.
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Pamela October 26, 2011 at 7:11 pm

I would like to thank you for your help, I try to know who I am following on twitter and not following me. direct messages is fast answer to this problem. thanks again.
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Antony Pratap September 27, 2011 at 5:53 am

That’s an awesome way to find individual profile to check if they follow you. But there are so many tools now to see a list of non-followers :)

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Mitz September 28, 2011 at 10:55 pm

Yes very true Antony…IT is too much work to see who is following you when you have too many followers. :)

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Rob September 26, 2011 at 9:39 am

Hey Mitz,

I searched this topic on Google and I should have known I would find you on the first page:) Thanks for concise details on how to check. I’ve been using twellow, but it seems to be down a lot. This way will do the trick.
Thanks
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Mitz September 26, 2011 at 11:32 am

Ha Ha it’s a small world! :)

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Ken June 19, 2011 at 1:43 pm

Hi Mitz,

Great sharings. Thank you so much. :D

I saw your post in: tips4pc.com/twitter/how_to_tel­l_if_someone_is_follow.htm

There is an option i found from the new Twitter where we can change to old twitter above the sign out button.

After changing to the older version, i am able to check who is not following me the way you teach in the website again.

Thank you once again for the videos and sharing.

Regards,

Ken

@mysgbiz

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Mitz June 19, 2011 at 10:29 pm

Great tip Ken!!!
Thanks for sharing :)

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Ken June 20, 2011 at 7:34 pm

Hi Mitz,

Thanks.
I’m still learning, and hope can learn more from you.

By the way, i find that your video on checking who is following us back, using the new Twitter interface is easier to use as compared with the method that we used to check using the older Twitter interface. However, this is only my preference though, everyone in this blog here are free to choose your way of doing things.

Wish everyone here happy tweeting, and be blessed with good health and well being.

Cheers!

Regards,
Ken
@mysgbiz

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Angela lewis January 30, 2011 at 10:43 pm

On new Twitter, evidently if you go to the person’s profile and if there is a Message button on it they are following you, because you can message them. If there is no Message button, they are not following you.
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Mitz January 30, 2011 at 10:47 pm

Hi there
I have posted the new video into the article above. Please check it out!
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Angela lewis January 30, 2011 at 4:31 am

Correct fellower commenters, it no longer works on new Twitter – anybody got hints on how to accomplish this in ‘new’ Twitter?

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Mitz January 30, 2011 at 10:06 pm

Hi there
Here is a video I have made…not used it on the website yet..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_QNETyWg6g
Totally new..just made the other day..

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J8 January 14, 2011 at 12:14 pm

edit: you must be in ‘old twitter’ to use this function

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J8 January 14, 2011 at 12:13 pm

this no longer works as of Jan 2011.

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GillyJones January 6, 2011 at 10:22 pm

I have really found your ‘direct message’ method the best for quickly seeing if someone is following you back. But I don’t hink it’s possible with the ‘New Twitter’ as you cannot access ‘actions’ drop down menu, only ‘lists’. Is that correct?

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Mitz January 30, 2011 at 10:50 pm

Hi there
Twitter has changed a lot since then..Check out the new video I have added in about how to see who is following you back on Twitter!!
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Maru September 4, 2010 at 5:23 am

Very helpful! Just what i was trying to figure it out! Thanks so much :)
Best,

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Inger Johnson August 20, 2010 at 1:54 pm

This was incredibly helpful. Thank you for posting it.

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