# A Guide to Twitter - Tasshin
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Here are some other guidelines for who to follow:
only follow people if you can imagine being friends with them (via Elias) follow people you want to talk with and talk with them (via Malcolm) unfollow people you don’t want to talk with (via Malcolm) follow people whose tweets you want inside you (via QC)
Who to follow on Twitter
As soon as you feel ready, start writing some of your own tweets. This will help you start sharing your own thoughts, and also give other people a sense of who you are and what to talk to you about. Here are some ideas for things to write about:
thoughts about a topic you’re currently interested in a lesson you’ve learned or a reflection you’ve had recently thoughts on a blog post or book that you read recently a joke a story or memory from your life a goal that you have
As a new account, with very few followers, you’ll be shouting into the void for a while. So, tweet all the time. Tweets are cheap. Try out different topics, and voices. Find your style. Don’t expect much of a response at first.
You can learn good reply game by watching others’ replies. What makes for a good reply? What makes for a bad reply? Emulate what’s good, abandon what’s not working for you, iterate and improve.
Ultimately, the bottleneck on good reply game is theory of mind: your ability to model what it’s like to be another person, and how they would receive your words.