> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.trytikt.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Choose the profiles to follow

> Creators your buyers follow, competitors, and you.

TIKT finds your leads among the people who react to and comment on the posts of the profiles you follow. Choosing those profiles well
is what matters most.

## Who to follow

Follow profiles whose audience looks like your buyers:

* Creators your buyers follow: the voices of your market, who post often and get comments from the people you sell to.
* Your competitors: their founders, their sales leaders, their company's people who post.
* Yourself, and your teammates who post: anyone engaging with you already knows you.

A profile that posts every week brings far more people than a large one that rarely posts. Check before you track: see
[Preview a profile before you track it](https://docs.trytikt.com/help/preview-a-profile.md).

## Add a profile

1. Open the **Watchlist** page.
2. Paste the profile's LinkedIn address and click **Preview**.
3. Read its activity, pick **Who is this to you?** (for example **Competitor** or **Influencer**), then click **Track**.

New posts are collected from now on: TIKT doesn't collect a profile's past posts. To read the audience of a post that already exists,
add it on the **Posts** page. See [Analyze any post on demand](https://docs.trytikt.com/help/analyze-a-post.md).

## How many profiles you can follow

Your plan includes a number of profiles you can follow: 20 during the free trial, 25 on the 5,000-credit plan, 35 on 10,000, 50 on
20,000, 75 on 50,000 and 100 on 100,000. Paused profiles don't count. The **Profiles** tile of the Watchlist shows how many you follow.

When you reach it, **Preview**, **Resume** and **Restore** are greyed out: upgrade your plan on the **Billing** page, or pause or remove a
profile. To switch to a smaller plan, follow no more profiles than it includes first.

## Pause, remove, restore

On each card of the Watchlist:

* **Pause** stops collecting: new posts are still listed, but nothing is collected and no credit is used. **Resume** starts again from
  now. You can pause up to 5 profiles; paused profiles don't count toward the profiles your plan includes.
* **Remove** stops tracking. History is kept: find the profile under **Removed** and click **Restore** to track it again. Only posts
  published from then on are collected.

## The colleagues of a profile

People who currently work at the company of a profile you follow are its colleagues: by default, they are not charged and stay out of
your leads. On the **Watchlist** page, click a profile to open its panel: the line **Colleagues at** its company has a switch, on by
default; turn it off to treat them like any other engager. See
[Exclude companies and colleagues](https://docs.trytikt.com/help/exclusions.md).


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