“A king has no friends. A king has only followers.”— David Michod, Joel Edgerton, Falstaff, Joel Edgerton, imdb.com
“All your followers are blind, too much heaven on their minds.”— Norman Jewison, Melvyn Bragg, Judas Iscariot, Carl Anderson, imdb.com
“No one comes to Twitter to share private thoughts. The platform is the equivalent of climbing to a mountaintop and shouting.”— Lance Ulanoff, medium.com
“What works now is content that galvanizes people. Instagram pages that turn into book deals have followers that do more than just smile and keep scrolling. These pages can show that the content is being reposted and shared to people who aren’t even on Instagram. Those are the signs of an Instagram b…”— Rachel Vogel, Rachel Kramer Bussel, forbes.com
“You know, any bad bitch with over 3K followers, it could be tough.”— Jamal Olori, Darius, Lakeith Stanfield, imdb.com
“What’s better than a million followers? The empty field that frees you of the urge to care.”— Ian Bogost, theatlantic.com
“You see a higher follower count, or a higher retweet count, and you assume this person is important, or this tweet was well received. As a result, you might be more likely to amplify it, to share it or to follow that person.”— Rand Fishkin, nytimes.com
“To lead requires those who willingly follow. It requires those who believe in something bigger than a single issue. To inspire starts with the clarity of WHY.”— Simon Sinek, amazon.com
“I follow only if I actually want to follow, not so I can just unfollow tomorrow.”— Natashalh, natashalh.com
“Just find someone with photos that are similar to yours, and start following the followers of that person. They’ll get a notification saying that you’re now following them, and many of them will check out your profile.”— Emil Pakarklis, iphonephotographyschool.com
“First, reach out to your existing friends and followers from other social networks. Since those people already know you, they’re far more likely to become a follower. You can simply send a message or share a post inviting your friends to follow you.”— Emil Pakarklis, iphonephotographyschool.com
“You can easily gain thousands of new followers each day by getting featured. Unfortunately, Instagram doesn’t really share how they choose users, but if you get added to their suggested users list, you’ll get tons of exposure.”— Karen Tumbokon, digitaltrends.com
“Instead of having to enter contact information or a username manually, users can scan Snapchat codes to add friends.”— Laura Dang, nextshark.com
“People take you more seriously when you have a lot of followers, but even more so when your work has meaning. Money is somewhere in between.”— Jesse Herzog, twitter.com
“Followers don't determine anything- Hitler had millions, Jesus had twelve.”— Annoymous, indiatimes.com
“I think the number one thing about Instagram is that people think there’s some sort of secret or magic to it and all of it is about being authentic and being yourself and respond to your followers.”— Eva Chen, independent.co.uk
“[Selena] Gomez is followed by 69.7 million people, which is more than the entire population of France...She doesn’t post that often. This might seem like a minor point, but we think it actually makes a significant difference when it comes to one’s decision to follow...if you post fewer Instagrams, e…”— Josh Duboff, vanityfair.com