{"id":47030,"date":"2022-07-30T21:09:59","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T21:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/?p=47030"},"modified":"2022-08-16T23:54:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T23:54:53","slug":"how-to-see-whos-following-me-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/how-to-see-whos-following-me-on-twitter","title":{"rendered":"How to See Who&#8217;s Following Me on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_43 counter-flat ez-toc-counter ez-toc-light-blue ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69e720e577de5\" class=\"cssicon\"><span style=\"display: flex;align-items: center;width: 35px;height: 30px;justify-content: center;direction:ltr;\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/label><label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69e720e577de5\"  class=\"cssiconcheckbox\">1<\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69e720e577de5\" ><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/how-to-see-whos-following-me-on-twitter\/#How_to_See_Whos_Following_Me_on_Twitter\" title=\"How to See Who&#8217;s Following Me on Twitter\">How to See Who&#8217;s Following Me on Twitter<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/how-to-see-whos-following-me-on-twitter\/#Unfollowing_people\" title=\"Unfollowing people\">Unfollowing people<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/how-to-see-whos-following-me-on-twitter\/#Identifying_fake_accounts\" title=\"Identifying fake accounts\">Identifying fake accounts<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/how-to-see-whos-following-me-on-twitter\/#Identifying_your_demographic\" title=\"Identifying your demographic\">Identifying your demographic<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/how-to-see-whos-following-me-on-twitter\/#Identifying_bot-like_activity\" title=\"Identifying bot-like activity\">Identifying bot-like activity<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_to_See_Whos_Following_Me_on_Twitter\"><\/span>How to See Who&#8217;s Following Me on Twitter<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: auto; max-width: 29% margin:0px 10px; width: auto; max-height: 383px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/BG09Sb4.jpg\" alt=\"who follow me on twitter\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re confused about how to see who&#8217;s following you on Twitter, don&#8217;t worry. You can easily find out who&#8217;s following you by searching for their username or keyword in the search bar. However, make sure to avoid following bot-like accounts. This method is only effective if the account you&#8217;re looking for has not followed you back. This method may seem a bit complicated but it&#8217;s actually pretty simple.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Unfollowing_people\"><\/span>Unfollowing people<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve decided to unfollow someone on Twitter, there are some things you should know. While Twitter will not notify you that you&#8217;ve unfollowed someone, third-party services can. Unfollowing someone does not immediately remove them from your list. But you can still check their profile and add them to your list if you want to continue following them. Read on to learn more about how unfollowing works on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>If someone has followed you on Twitter for an inappropriate reason, you should probably unfollow them. The reason is because you no longer like what they&#8217;ve posted, but there are also some less-than-ideal reasons. You might have followed them for a specific topic, but they didn&#8217;t follow you back. If this is the case, you&#8217;d have to reassess your following strategy. Luckily, there are a few simple ways to unfollow people on Twitter.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Identifying_fake_accounts\"><\/span>Identifying fake accounts<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Identifying fake accounts on Twitter is critical to countering disinformation. Twitter attracts millions of users across the globe, and these accounts are a great source of incorrect information. Fake accounts on the platform can create havoc on society, so it&#8217;s crucial to detect these accounts. To do this, we used machine learning algorithms, such as decision trees and logistic regression, to identify fake accounts. However, we can&#8217;t be entirely sure that these fake accounts are bots. Some fake accounts are actually human, which adds some credibility to their message.<\/p>\n<p>Another tell-tale sign of fake accounts on Twitter is an inactive account. If an account has not tweeted for months, it&#8217;s most likely fake. The time stamp of the last tweet will give you a good indication. In the case of the Twitter account in the image above, it hasn&#8217;t tweeted since 2011. You can also tell if a particular account is fake by the amount of followers it has. Manually checking Twitter accounts is easy when you have a small number of followers, but the task gets more difficult once you reach millions. If you have millions of followers, it&#8217;s virtually impossible to identify any of them.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Identifying_your_demographic\"><\/span>Identifying your demographic<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Understanding your Twitter demographic will help you craft better marketing messages. If you want to know who your target audience is, you can find out their interests and demographics by using tools like Sprout or Twitter&#8217;s analytics tools. Follow the steps above to identify your Twitter demographic and put these findings to good use. You&#8217;ll be surprised by the insights you&#8217;ll gain. Once you&#8217;ve figured out your demographic, it&#8217;s time to tailor your messaging to appeal to them.<\/p>\n<p>To conduct the survey, researchers first identified the demographics of Twitter users. The survey, which included 2,791 participants with a valid Twitter handle, was based on a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults. Respondents were screened for eligibility and asked for their Twitter handles. Of the 3,293 individuals who provided their Twitter handle, 34% confirmed using the service. The researchers analyzed the responses by removing the accounts belonging to non-existent organizations, international entities, and institutions.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Identifying_bot-like_activity\"><\/span>Identifying bot-like activity<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The aim of this paper is to find a method for identifying bot-like activity on Twitter. The approach is based on the metric of sequence similarity in the profiles. The algorithm incorporates genetic algorithms and analyzes the differences in tweets and profiles of both human and bot users. The algorithm is trained with datasets containing over 8 million tweets from 3500 human accounts, and 3.4 million from 5000 bot accounts. The analysis results indicate that based on the type of tweets, the detection accuracy is much higher.<\/p>\n<p>Bot-like activity on Twitter has two main characteristics. First, it boosts signals from other users. A typical timeline will contain posts that retweet other people and news articles word for word. This type of activity is not easy to detect, but researchers can identify them by using two techniques: machine-scanning and eyeball identification. 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