フォロワー
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Meanings
1
General sense: a person who follows a leader, movement, or ideology. Less common than the social media sense in modern Japanese.
He is a charismatic leader and has many followers.
2
Specifically refers to a follower on social media platforms such as Twitter, Instagram, etc. This is the most common usage in contemporary Japanese.
My Instagram followers exceeded 10,000.
I post every day to increase my followers.
Usage patterns
- 〈人〉のフォロワーになるto become someone's follower (on social media)
I became her follower.
- フォロワーを増やすto increase one's number of followers
He increased his followers with the new video.
- フォロワーが〈数〉人いるto have a certain number of followers
He has 100,000 followers.
- フォロワーを獲得するto gain followers
This campaign gained a lot of followers.