Analyze your followers growth trend to discover which of your actions worked the best for attracting and retaining new followers.

Why is my Followers report blank and I don't see any numbers?

We need at least a week (starting from the day you have connected your social media page) to collect the data and build this report.

Because the Number of Followers is the only metric that can't be calculated retroactively: social networks' APIs don't provide this data. We can calculate current values for the Followers metric only starting from the day you have connected your social media page to TrueSocialMetrics and onwards. For the historical data about Followers (before the day of the connection) we use an Interpolation technique - building the trend for the past values based on the present values of the Number of Followers.

How to fix this: You can import the file with your historical data for the Number of Followers into your True account (e.g. if you used different analysis software before or have just stored your old reports with historical data). And you’ll enjoy an uninterrupted historical trend of Followers growth.

  • import followers data

How do you calculate Shares for Instagram?

Shares for Instagram are calculated as the number of times the link to your Instagram post was shared on other social sharing sites: Pinterest, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Digg, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin.

For some social networks (Blog, YouTube, Linkedin, Tumblr, Instagram, Slideshare, Vimeo) we additionally collect data from other places besides the channel (e.g., Disqus, Delicious, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Digg).

Read more about data collection sources here.

How do I compare Followers growth trend for several different brands with each other?

With the help of "Competitor: Followers report".

How do we define 'Followers' for each social network?

Followers
Twitter followers
Facebook fans (page likes)
Google plus have you in circles
Blog RSS Subscribers
YouTube channel subscribers
Linkedin followers
Tumblr followers
Instagram followers
Slideshare followers
Vimeo followers
Pinterest followers

Read more about data collection sources here.