You'll only be retweeted and followed if you're providing a Twitter-stream that grabs people's attention. Provide information other people want to know and share. Leave your Twitter address with comments that you make on blog sites so that people can work their way back to the real you and learn more.If they notice you and like what they see, they'll help you in your 'social media climbing' by sharing your information with their followers, and hopefully recommending you as well. Communicate with Twitter users who are already popular.It's a form of respect and a way of acknowledging that the person being retweeted is sharing information worthy of retweeting about. This is the lifeblood of Twitter, the sharing of information through retweeting. Retweet (RT) people's information regularly and with consistency.If your name is mentioned, it means someone cares enough to include you, and it's important to acknowledge this by replying. You can grow to know a lot of amazing people through your Twitter account just by interacting with them regularly, and many will become firm friends even though you've never actually met them. Twitter is about relationships and friendships.