Social Media Twitter How to Find People on Twitter by Email The people you know make the best Twitter followers by Amanda MacArthur Writer Amanda MacArthur is a former Lifewire writer, a social media expert, and author of over 1000 articles and blog posts, dozens of white papers and four books. our editorial process Twitter Amanda MacArthur Updated on December 02, 2020 reviewed by Jessica Kormos Lifewire Tech Review Board Member Jessica Kormos is a writer and editor with 15 years' experience writing articles, copy, and UX content for Tecca.com, Rosenfeld Media, and many others. our review board Article reviewed on Dec 22, 2020 Jessica Kormos Twitter Facebook Flipboard Pinterest Twitter Snapchat Instagram YouTube Online Dating Tweet Share Email You finally launched a Twitter account, and you're wondering how you can get more followers quickly. Who better to recruit than people you already know? You probably have a large list of email contacts who would be happy to learn of your presence on their favorite social network. Here's how to search for and follow people on Twitter using their email addresses. How to Import Your Email Contacts to Twitter Twitter has put together a fairly simple set of instructions for adding people through emails in your address book. Here's how to do it via an Android or iOS device: Open the Twitter app. Swipe right to open the menu. Select More > Settings and Privacy > Privacy and safety > Discoverability and Contacts. Turn on Sync address book contacts. This causes Twitter to upload contacts on an ongoing basis and use those contacts as suggestions for who to follow on the social network. Turning off sync later won't remove contacts you've already uploaded. Grant Twitter permission to access your contacts if necessary. Once you import your contacts, Twitter will highlight the ones who are already using the platform. Follow those individuals by selecting Follow next to their usernames, or add all of them at once by selecting Follow all. Searching for Contacts on Twitter You can search for people by name in the main search box on the site. You can find them via email address or phone number, but only if they activate those features in their Privacy and Safety settings. Many users either don't turn the features on intentionally or don't realize they're there, so you may not have any luck finding someone by searching for an email address on Twitter. It doesn't hurt to try, though. More on Twitter and Email Here are a few more things to keep in mind about imported contacts and Twitter: Twitter doesn't let you create a new account using an email address that's already in use. If you want to create five Twitter accounts, for example, you need five unique email addresses.If you want to change your email address, go to your profile > Settings and Privacy > Account and replace your current email address with your new one. Twitter asks for your password to confirm the request. Then it sends a confirmation email to the new address and asks you to click a link.If you're getting too much email from Twitter, you can update your preferences. To manage your email notifications, go to Profile > Settings and privacy > Email notifications. Review the list and check or uncheck the different types of email notifications Twitter sends out.If you get an email from Twitter that looks suspicious, forward it to spoof@twitter.com. Emails that look fishy and ask you for your login information are called phishing emails. Was this page helpful? Thanks for letting us know! Get the Latest Tech News Delivered Every Day Email Address Sign up There was an error. Please try again. You're in! Thanks for signing up. There was an error. Please try again. Thank you for signing up. Tell us why! Other Not enough details Hard to understand Submit