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Finding people to follow is really simple and is one of the easiest ways to start getting followers for you. You can google the term, "Twitter Directories" and you'll come up with several options. Who do you want to follow? Ideally, you want to follow companies, people you've found through your research who are connected to your target companies, recruiters, job boards, and the like. I'll introduce you to a few directories:
Twellow is a great place for you to list yourself in the Twitter Yellow Pages. I list myself under the following three attributes: personal branding, social media, and career consultant. Try to think of attributes to describe what you do to match what people will use in their own search to find people in those professions. What I love about Twellow is that once you've created your account and signed in, you can search and follow people all within the Twellow website. I searched for "recruiters and healthcare" and came up with a list of people on Twitter who are recruiters in the healthcare industry. Additionally, you can search on a company's name and not only see if the company is on Twitter, but also if any employees of that company are. Again, networking is key to career transition success!
WeFollow is much like Twellow. You have to pick three tags (or attributes) that best describe you.
Twitter Grader. You can enter your Twitter username and come up with a Twitter grade. It measures your "power, reach, and authority" on Twitter. They have their own algorithm (or secret sauce), like Google, so they don't delve into the complete details on how they arrive at your score. I like the "Twitter Elite" feature; this is located on the navigation bar on the right upper side of the website. Here, you can search for the "Twitter Elite" by Top Users, Top in Location, Top Cities, Top U.S. States, and Top Countries. I go here from time to time to follow people in my local area and the top users in my industry of interest. Twitter Grader makes it easy for you to find some of the leading experts in your industry.
Just Tweet It is another directory where you can find people to follow and add yourself to their directory. I copied my bio from my Twitter site and inserted it here. The neat feature is you can subscribe to different directories via an RSS feed to alert you when someone new has added a profile in a directory of your interest. Then, you can check out their profile and decide if you want to follow them or not.
TweetBeep lets you keep track of who's tweeting your website, your name, or blog. It also has the ability to know if someone has used a shortened URL (i.e., bit.ly) to talk about your website. It is truly a unique tool for online reputation management, and I've heard of people who set up these alerts on their competitors.
TweepSearch lets you search people by their @username or by key words. I ran a search for Manufacturing Recruiters and received 42 results. When I ran a search on Sales Recruiters, I found 381 listings.