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follower

follower

138 1.8
A person who chooses to see someone's posts on social media
  • noun
  • /ˈfɑːloʊər/
  • Texting
translation icon : seguidor
  • My followers are gonna love this.
  • social media followers
  • attract followers
  • number of followers

And so if you want to get followers, don't look at the number.

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Examples

  • But I have over 60,000 followers.

  • In just one day, I gained more than 1,000 followers on Twitter after sharing my latest blog post.

  • I love when I meet my followers, you guys.

  • How many followers do you have?

  • The new followers are here.

  • Then your followers go up.

  • Friday or Thursday I was at a million followers on Twitter.

  • When most users get new followers, the first place those followers look is the profile.

    Academic text (2011)
  • He's also a social media pioneer with millions of followers and hundreds of millions of views.

  • As of this writing, KremlinRussia has more than 50,000 followers and is adding a thousand or more each week.

    Academic text (2011)

Synonyms

fan of
vsfollower
353 1.6

A person who likes and supports someone or something

is a social media subscriber who may not admire or support
devoted follower
vsfollower
1 3.9

A person who strongly supports and stays loyal to someone or something

is a social media subscriber without strong loyalty or enthusiasm
followers
vsfollower
  • Texting
2.1

Accounts or people who receive someone's posts and updates on social media

is one social media subscriber rather than plural accounts

Antonyms

A person who does not pay for or join a service such as a magazine

Compounds

A person who strongly supports and stays loyal to someone or something

A person who always obeys instructions and people in charge

camp follower
  • Archaic
1 8.0

A person who travels with an army to cook, trade and help

9.9

A woman who travels with soldiers and offers sex for money

How Engaged

superfan
  • Informal
4 4.1
fan
1.0
follower
  • Texting
138 1.8
viewer
477 1.3

Surface Forms

follower singular
followers plural

Morphology

follower = follow (transparent) = follow + er

The social-media sense is a metaphorical extension but is still clearly derived from 'follow' + the agentive '-er'.

Etymology

Follower comes from the verb follow, which comes from an old English word meaning 'to go after'. On social media you 'follow' someone to see their posts, so a follower is someone who signs up to receive another person's updates.