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Social-media algorithms now drive content more based on users’ interest and less according to a creator’s follower count, boosting the reach of small creators.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

They have built follower bases by talking both about their financial content and their personal lives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

Fox’s coverage pivoted from hard fouls to trans panic, Clark got dragged into a fight she has spent three years trying to avoid and Cunningham’s follower count exploded.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

There are thousands of comments, with one follower suggesting to "wear baggy clothes and avoid the mirror", and another saying "eat chocolate".

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

Born in 1964 in the tiny farm town of Benjamin, Utah, the son of a plumber, Singleton was a nice kid but a poor student, shy, a follower, a practical joker.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

She now has 65,000 followers on Twitch, and more than 100,000 on TikTok.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

That’s right: Oprah Winfrey persuaded her followers to buy a cylindrical glass container holding paper and air, for $45.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

Matthias Barker, a psychotherapist who founded Estrangement.com, a paid-membership support group, has 4.2 million followers combined on Instagram and TikTok, all of them new since 2020, he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

“For 15 years we developed hundreds of thousands of followers who we were able to build community with. Then without warning or cause, they ripped away our ability to communicate with our community.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

In the real world, Ho Chi Minh and his followers were Communists.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin