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Want to follow someone on Twitter without them receiving the usual “Darren is stalking you on Twitter” notification email? Or want to follow a business competitor on Twitter without appearing in their list of followers? Here’s how.
For whatever reason you want to follow someone on Twitter without them knowing – be it a romantic interest, the CEO of a rival company or a topic or person of interest that really shouldn’t be shared – we’ve put together three simple methods for doing so.
Method one is the most straightforward method of all but perhaps the most creepy. Just create a fake Twitter account excluding any personally identifiable information and stalk until your heart’s content.
Method two involves private Twitter lists. Lists allows you to get updates from one or more Twitter users without having to follow them. They don’t get notified by email and as long as the list is private their inclusion will never be publicised.
Method three is one for the geeks. It involves creating an RSS feed for a specific user on Twitter and adding this to your favourite RSS client. Our own editor Piers Scott has created this really useful tool for easily generating an RSS feed of a Twitter user, Twitter list and a Twitter search.
If you can think of any other methods of Twitter stalking please let us know in the comments.
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Ha, I love this list! I saw the blog title and said "wait, you can do that?!" Little did I know it was more back-door methods than anything else.
@annedreshfield We're all about hacks and workarounds here at thesociable
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Ha, I love this list! I saw the blog title and said "wait, you can do that?!" Little did I know it was more back-door methods than anything else.
@annedreshfield We're all about hacks and workarounds here at thesociable
@darrenmccarra thesociable I'm a fan!
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@digippmike creepy!
@digippmike creepy!
Steve Jobs was right. I didn't know I wanted to do that....
Steve Jobs was right. I didn't know I wanted to do that....
Steve Jobs was right. I didn't know I wanted to do that....
How to know if the person we sent follow request to, has accepted our request or not? I don't know how many private accounts im following.