Social media engagement has become the measure of personal & business success. A place to meet & keep up to date with friends, family & associates was the founding idea behind social networks. However, it’s become a method to grow businesses & as such, the number of followers an account accumulates has become the all important mark of progress. Social media users are keen to access analytical insights to track their likes & followers. So how do you go about discovering your follower statistics? What are the many ways of tracking Instagram followers?
Instagram For Everyone
Obviously, you can simply monitor your Instagram account & check if people have followed you. You can keep a list of followers & check if anyone has lost interest & dropped off. However, this approach is not practicable if you have a lot of people on your follower list.
Instagram For Business
For business accounts, Instagram offers the “Professional Dashboard”, a central destination to track performance. Click on your profile picture & then click on the link to view your dashboard. Analytics include statistics on new followers, number of unfollows & a host of other useful information such as the hours & days when your followers are most active, giving users a guide to the best time to post.
Followmeter
Continuing with this article on tracking Instagram followers, Instagram metrics tracker Followmeter offers an overview of your interaction with followers. The app has a clean & easy to understand dashboard & gives a view of your statistics, which includes a follower count – new, existing & lost. The app has a free & Pro version available, with the free version offering basic stats & the Pro giving a fair variety of extended metrics including insight into ghost followers, users who have blocked your account, secret admirers as well as followers who have given the most likes & comments.
InsMaster
This app is free to download & supports a wide variety of follower metrics, which include who viewed your profile, new followers, ghost followers, who viewed your posts & stories, who stopped following you, who didn’t follow back. InsMaster updates your profile in real time & has a few extra cool features such as, the option to download IG stories, view stories anonymously & detect who has blocked your account.
Followers+
Followers+ is free to download & use. The dashboard offers an easy to navigate overview of your Instagram performance metrics including new, existing & lost follower count. There are a few other insights available such as ghost followers, stalkers, top media & blockers.
The interesting thing about this app is that you can not only track your own performance, you simply need to enter an Instagram username to view the metrics for any account you choose.
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