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How the Number of Followers You Have is Just a Vanity Metric
Don’t be upset. We still love you ❤
As I sat here yesterday during the global Facebook crash I stared blankly at my Facebook business page. It’s pretty. It’s full of all kinds of fun inspirational posters, videos and blogs. You should really go check it out.
It really is a beautiful page. You can see I have 617,872 fans on it. I worked my butt off to get it there. Once I got to 600K I started relaxing a bit and not putting in so much effort. More on that in a minute.
Oddly enough, I have 653 people following my personal account. No clue why but whatever.
Over on my Pinterest account I just crossed over 20K followers. I’m actually pretty proud and excited about this number. Again, I worked my butt off.
On Twitter I have 1512 followers. Colour me clueless. I have no idea what goes on over there. 🤷♀️
On Instagram I have 4034 followers. I do my best to engage over there daily. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn’t. I still…
