ARE FOLLOWERS IMPORTANT?
The answer is yes and no...
There is no doubt that followers are extremely important because they can really be seen as part of your list. You post, and all your followers see your content, providing of course they are online.
The exception to the "followers are valuable" rule is of course Facebook. As we know Facebook is a pay to play social. Most members are unaware of this because they work within their little bubble of a few hundred friends so they see what is going on in their world. If you want to then reach a bigger audience you have to pay. Just following and friending more just dilutes your reach because of the Facebook algorithm.
Instagram, what can you say about Instagram, get 10 followers lose 20. The Instagram followers game is rampant on Instagram because followers equals likes but more importantly, if you run a very tight ship in that you have a niche and stick to it then a following can equal sponsorship offers from brands. Everyone is chasing followers. You even get members with 100k + followings follow you so you follow back. If you then look at their page you see they actually follow 200 or less people. Of course they don't follow you for very long, thats the game.
Twitter, well it is similar but my experience leads me to believe that you don't get the mass following and unfollowing that you get on Instagram. But then it is not as easy to get sponsors or make money.
Yes followers of Instagram are really important cause it just makes life easier, but if you know what your doing and you use the write tags you can still get some great engagement and that is really what it is all about.
Followers are great if you can leverage them and the big social sites know a thing or two about doing that.
So whats the answer?
Well create great content that people love and just stay consistent.
And join The8App. You can get sponsorship deals there with the new 8app sponsor feed. You really don't need a big following over on 8. But here is the thing join now while it's not on many peoples social radar and benefit from riding the site and growing your followers fast as the site scales. People joining a new site are looking for people to follow and that is you and me, when it scales you grow fast.
Regards Dexterroona
I follow those who are interesting to me. I have experienced 'follow spam' on Tsu and elsewhere. I won't just follow people back as I actually look at my feed here. Good luck with 8app
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@steevc it really depends on how you use your feed. If you are truly interested in your feed being clean and only showing what you like then can't follower everyone back. If however the game is just getting seen then your feed is not as valuable as having followers. It also depends on the platform. Twitter example, you can follow thousands and then just select who you want in a specific list and then just view who is in the list.
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@steevc i powered up this post 100% .. how's that work exactly, how long is it powered up for ?
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It means that everything you earn on the post is paid in SP instead of being split. You can get it seen more by promoting with some Steem Dollars to get it on the Promoted page. It looks like that may be working again as the button was missing for a while.
BTW I didn't get notified for this last comment as it was a reply to your comment. They are allowing much greater comment nesting in the next version
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Yes, Steemit needs lists or something eventually. I expect that will come in time. I'm not doing bad for followers here and over half are active. On Tsu I had thousands, but very few did anything at all. I'm getting good conversations here, which is better than a lot of other sites I've played with.
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nice post @infobunny
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@silvia thanks im now following
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