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Put them on a private list. You can then just visit the list to see their tweets. You might want to also add the people you're actually following to that list and change your bookmark to point to it instead of Twitter's home page.

There are some options: You might want to make your account protected. If you do this, you can control who gets to follow you and who doesn't. However this also means that none of your tweets will be public, so people will have to follow you first (and you will have to accept them) before they can see your tweets. You can block a person you don't like. ...

You can't direct message the other user, but you can send a public message that will come to the attention of the user simply by starting a tweet with @username. Every Twitter client I've tried has a way of alerting mentions like this. This is as good as you're going to get.

There are two answers to this: Public Account Yes. All they have to do is go to your page https://twitter.com/yourtwittername and they can see what you tweet. Private Account No. If they go to your page https://twitter.com/yourtwittername all they will see is your name, bio, and link. If they then try to follow you, you'll get a notification that ...

You can protect your tweets if the side effects are acceptable to you. This way you will receive an email anytime someone wants to follow you. On the account screen for the settings page, check the box that says "Protect my Tweets", just be aware of the caveats which are as follows (text from the settings page when you are actively protecting your tweets): ...

You would have to do it manually (by going to their page and seeing what they post). You can't add their content to your homepage unless you follow them. You could write an application that pulls your homepage content and mixes in their timeline content. You could also use a RSS reader to pull in multiple feeds (your homepage and their stream) into a ...

Create a RSS feed for your Twitter List using this service - http://zeyne.net/rss.php?url=twitter.com/{username}/{List name} (replace the actual username & List name within the placeholders) Subscribe to the generated feed with Google Reader. Within Google Reader, you can then search for keywords within tweets from your Lists using Google Reader's ...

I'm not sure what you're asking here because this is primarily what twitter lists are used for. In the twitter web application, Click "Create a List" Find the user you want to "List Follow" Click The "List" dropdown. Add this user to your newly created list (You do not have to follow the user) Instructions for Old Twitter are here.

Jared Hardley's suggestion (RSS) is the way to go (for non-protected accounts). If you want the person's tweets plus any replies (which you can get in RSS via a search), you can use this Yahoo Pipe I created that mixes both things up: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=a9379d57504827fc594e71daeb54dd60