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

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 this website 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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.