Web buzzz: How to check if a person you’re following on Twitter, is following you

Posted on 06. Aug, 2009 by Dragos in Internet Life, Web Buzzz

It seems there are no official methods on Twitter to check if a person you’re following is also following you in return. However, here’s what I found on Twitter:

In addition to public updates and @replies, you can send followers private tweets, called direct messages, too. If someone is following you, you can send a direct message from the web via the “message” link on the profile page.

What does this mean? Well, it means that you can send direct messages only to those people who are following you. So in order to find out whether a person is following you or not, you just have to check if if you can send this person a direct message.

To check for direct message sending, you should go to http://twitter.com/your_twitter_username/following (replace your_twitter_username with your own Twitter username). From there, click on the actions button near the name of the person you want to check. If you have the possibility to send direct messages (like in the image below), then this person is following you, else is not.