How to get people to follow me on twitter?

[Susanna]

Well since you don't want your friend or family to know about it you can't ask them to follow you therefore you fastest way of getting followers in out.

I suggest you join a twitter followers exchange system/website and you will gain as many followers as the number of people you follow. I prefer using http://www.socialclerks.com/ for such services. Its an exchange, if you don't want to follow other people to gain followers you can make a separate facebook account and earn the credits need for getting free followers by liking facebook pages.
Don't worry the process is simple and you will get the hang of it very quickly.