How to Find People With Many Twitter Followers

Users with large Twitter followings commonly serve up interesting tweets.

To the casual microblogger, securing thousands of Twitter followers may provide a pleasant ego boost -- but for companies and organizations, legions of followers can represent a serious increase in Web traffic. For Twitter users who wish to amass a large following, examining the most popular users and seeing how they interact with their followers can provide valuable insight. To facilitate the process, there are a number of websites that exist specifically to help users locate Twitter accounts with significant followings.

Instructions

Twitter Search

1. Navigate to the Twitter website and click "Sign In." Enter your account name and password to login.

2. Click "Who to Follow."

3. Select the "Browse Interests" tab.

4. Click an area of interest. Between 30 and 150 of the most popular Twitter accounts in that area will be presented. Click the user name or icon on a profile to view its follower count.

Twitaholic

1. Navigate to the main page of the Twitaholic website.

2. Click "Followers" at the top of the list of the most popular Twitter users. This will sort the list by the number of followers, with the most followed account at the top.

3. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click any of the links from "Top 200" to "Top 1000" to view the next most popular users based on number of followers.

4. Click the name of a Twitter account to view more details about the account.

WeFollow

1. Navigate to the main page of the WeFollow website.

2. Type a search term in the input box at the top of the page. The search term should be a one-word summary of the area of interest of the Twitter users that you want to locate.

3. Click the "Most Followers" tab. This will sort the Twitter accounts by those with the most followers to those with the least.

Twitter Counter

1. Navigate to the main page of the Twitter Counter website.

2. Click the "Top 100 Users" tab.

3. Click "Followers" to sort the list according to number of followers.

4. Select a country or region from the drop-down menu to filter the results by geographical area.

5. Click on a user name to view detailed statistics on follower accumulation and number of tweets per day.

References

• Twitter Support: How to Find People on Twitter

Resources

• Twitaholic: Top Twitter Users Based on Followers
• WeFollow: Find Twitter Users
• Twitter Counter: Top 100 Most Followed on Twitter