How To Automatically Follow Someone Who Follows You on Twitter

Following your followers manually isn’t a big deal if you only receive a few friend requests per day. However, if your Twitter profile takes off, you might become insanely popular and start receiving dozens of new followers each day. That’s a nice position to be in, for sure, but you could end up spending vast chunks of your day just processing all those new fans.

To avoid that, you can use a powerful online tool called SocialOomph (formerly TweetLater) to automatically follow anyone who follows you. Go to www.socialoomph.com and sign up for a free registration. (There’s a paid version of the service, but you don’t need it for this.) After you do that, you add your Twitter account and then configure it to automatically follow your followers. Because SocialOomph is an online service, the interface changes fairly regularly. However, here are the steps to follow to add your Twitter account as I write this:

1. Log on to your SocialOomph account.
2. Click the Accounts tab.
3. Click the Add Account tab. The Add New Account page appears.
4. Select the Twitter option and click Continue. The Add a New Twitter Account page
appears.
5. Type your screen name in the Twitter User Name text box.
6. Type your password in the Twitter Password text box.
7. Type the Bot Prevention text.
8. Click Save. SocialOomph saves your Twitter account info.

You can now activate the Auto Follow feature:
 

1. Click the Accounts tab.
2. Click the Edit Automation tab.
3. Click the Edit link beside your Twitter account. The Optional Twitter Account
Automation page appears.
4. Select the Auto Follow check box

5. Click Save. SocialOomph adds your accounts and configures them to automatically
follow your followers.