How To Find Friends and Colleagues on Twitter

Highlights of this article:

• With your permission and a few easy steps, we can check your email address book to see which of your contacts are currently using Twitter.
• You can then choose to follow them if you want to get their Tweets.

To import an address book:

1. Visit the Find People link in the Who to Follow section.
2. Click the icon that corresponds to your email provider (Gmail, Yahoo, Aol, and Hotmail & Messenger)
3. A new window will pop-up, prompting you to enter your log in credentials for your email. (Please make sure your browser enables pop ups!)
4. When asked if you agree to share your information with Twitter, click 'Agree' or 'Allow' access.
5. A list of your friends and colleagues on Twitter will populate in the center of the page. You can choose to follow all of them by selecting the blue 'Follow All' button on the right hand side of the results, or if you'd like to see updates only from specific people, you can choose to follow your email contacts individually using the grey 'follow' button next to their information.
   Please note: if you click "Follow all", you can still manually unfollow people on this screen or at any time in the future.
6. Once you have selected the friends and colleagues you wish to follow, a confirmation message will appear.
7. You're done! You can navigate back to your Home timeline to view posts from your friends and colleagues.
   If you have contacts that do not have Twitter accounts, you can click “Send Request” to email them individually or click “Invite Them” at the top of the page to email them all. You can also click “Try Another Service” to import more contacts from a different account.
   

Step 1: Click Find People link in Who to Follow section


Steps 2 & 3: click link for your email provider (in this example, Yahoo!), enter credentials in pop-up window.


Step 4: Click agree to allow access to your address book so Twitter can find which of your contacts are on Twitter!


Step 5: Select 'Send Request', 'Follow' or 'Follow All' from the list provided.


Step 6: Confirmation message for a user you've followed from the import list.

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