Who am I following?

How do I know who I'm following?

After you click the follow button on someone's profile, you're following them. The follow button will change to a box that says "Following" with a drop down option to remove a person if you want to. If you've registered your phone with Twitter, you can set up text preferences for a person as well. See a list of people you're following by clicking on the following link on your profile or your home page's sidebar.

Following someone in Twitter

Taken from Twitter's help page here.

What does it mean to follow someone on Twitter?
Following someone simply means receiving their Twitter updates. When you follow someone, every time they post a new message, it will appear in your Twitter home page. New messages are added to your home page as people post them, so you always get the updates in real time. When you log in, you can see what the latest updates are. Twitter offers other ways to follow people too: you can get updates from certain people on your phone!

How to follow someone in Twitter


To start receiving messages from a person, visit their profile page and click "follow" or send a text message to Twitter with the words "follow username" from your phone. You'll get messages from the people you've followed as soon as they update, and you can stop following anyone at anytime. Twitter is flexible-- you can follow people in a variety of ways. You can follow someone from:

* The web: click "follow" under any profile picture on Twitter. If an account is protected, the owner will have approve your follow request before you'll receive their updates. You can also import your contacts from your address book to find friends already using Twitter or invite friends who aren't on Twitter yet.

* SMS/text message: Send follow username in a text message to Twitter to start following someone from your phone. For example: follow biz.

* API or 3rd Party App: send follow username from any 3rd party application that supports the Twitter commands.

* Mobile web: if you have a mobile web browser, use m.twitter.com to follow others, just as you would on the regular web.

Pick the methods that work best for you, and keep you in touch while you're on the go. Stop following someone by visiting the profile page and clicking "remove" in the drop down box.

More help in following people can be found here.

How to start using Twitter

Most of you know how to start using Twitter: Create an account, start updating with a post or so.

But for those of you who don't know how to post updates, here's a quick picture on how to post your updates:


Posting is the first step to start Tweeting (not taking into account of creating an account).

Starting out: Twitter

For those of you who don't know what's Twitter, well here's a quick search on Wikipedia and some other sources.


Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read each others' updates, known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters, displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to other users - known as followers - who have subscribed to them.


and


Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent messages. People write short updates, often called "tweets" of 140 characters or fewer. These messages are posted to your profile or your blog, sent to your followers, and are searchable on Twitter search.


and


The New York Times calls Twitter "one of the fastest-growing phenomena on the Internet." TIME Magazine says, "Twitter is on its way to becoming the next killer app," and Newsweek noted that "Suddenly, it seems as though all the world's a-twitter." What will you think?


Now, get on with Twitter's sign up page.
Fill in your details and you're ready to go!

Tweeting Help

Welcome to tweetinghelp blog.
Here, we shall learn how to use Twitter (for those who don't know).
You can contribute your own tips and tricks at the comments page too.