Twitter® For Dummies®, 2nd Edition

Chapter 5. Tweeting It Up

In This Chapter

• Following people

• Scouring Twitter for interesting people to follow

• Replying to messages, privately and publicly

• Attracting new followers

One of the neatest byproducts of the Twitter experience is that your conversations, your followers, and your ability to interact with your network extends far past the Twitter.com interface into other platforms and even into the real world due to Twitter's ability to facilitate communications to plan both formal and spontaneous events. But equally important to accessing your Twitter account from virtually anywhere is understanding how to interact within the community.

In this chapter, we go over the nuts and bolts involved in discovering, managing, and interacting with your network: the people you follow on Twitter and the people who follow you. Additionally, we give you some hints about how to play well with others within the twitterverse so that you can start having conversations right away!

Finding People to Follow on Twitter

A key part of getting the most out of Twitter is knowing where and how to find people whose Twitter streams are of interest to you. Most people start by following their friends, associates, and people they know. However, millions of people use Twitter, so you might consider scouring Twitter.com for other people who can add value to your stream.

You can easily find and follow people on Twitter: You naturally browse to people's profiles when you think that something they say is interesting ...