why do people follow other people on twitter?

[imaTfan]

what does following a person on it do? like, if you follow a person, will it keep you updated on their tweets, or does it let you write tweets to them, what? Can you please list all the things following a person on twitter does? Thanks!

[Naomi P]

Following someone on twitter puts all of their posts into your timeline along with yours and everyone else that you follow. You can direct message them, which is a private conversation that no one else can read, tag them in your posts by using @(their username), view their profile information, etc.

Just because you follow someone does not mean that they are following you too and reading all of your tweets. That's why there's a "Following" and "Followers" section. Whether they follow you or not is up to them. If they don't, then they just won't have your posts incorporated into their timeline.

Also, a lot of the time people only follow people to try to gain more followers for themselves, which is being a twitter w h o r e.