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The Follow Tool

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ByOliver A

Introduction

Attaining the attention of your target audience is crucial, even if your content is top-notch, your posts are intriguing, and your products are of the highest quality. To make a lasting impression, it’s essential to find ways to stand out in your niche.

One way to achieve this is by targeting users who have an interest in what you have to offer. You can start by following big accounts in your niche and then continue to follow their followers. This is a logical approach as there’s a high probability that these individuals would be interested in your content. However, this task can be time-consuming, especially if the account you’re targeting has a large number of followers. To save time and effort, consider using SU Social, the ultimate automation tool. With SU Social, you can automate this process and have more time to focus on your content and other growth-enhancing strategies.

The SU SOCIAL Follow tool: An Overview

SU Social’s Follow tool is a versatile and highly effective tool that is available for multiple social media platforms such as Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, Quora, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Pinterest.

To access this tool, simply navigate to the TOOLS section of SU Social and select one of the accounts that support the Follow tool, or click on the More Tools action link, then head to the Follow Tool tab.

This Follow tool operates on a similar methodology for all the listed social media platforms, providing a consistent and efficient experience for users.

Once you have located the Follow tool, you will find that it is comprised of four main tabs: Settings, Follow Sources, Extracted Users, and Follow Results. Each tab provides important features and functions that allow you to effectively manage and optimize your follow strategy.

Follow tool Settings

The configuration and control center for the Follow tool features 5 key sections, providing you with the flexibility to personalize your experience. These sections include:

– Run Timers. – Follow Limits.

– User Filters (for Instagram, Pinterest, and Twitter).

– Follow Settings (not applicable to Instagram, LinkedIn, Youtube, and Quora).

– After Follow Actions (for Instagram, Pinterest, and Twitter).

Run Timers:

In the Run Timers section, you have the ability to set the parameters for the tool’s operation, including:

1. The interval between each operation, is determined by the number of minutes to wait before starting a new operation.

2. The number of users to be followed per operation for Instagram, Pinterest, and Twitter.

3. The hours during which the Follow tool will perform actions.

4. The option to add a random sleep, allowing the tool to rest before starting a new operation after executing a specified number of follows.

5. The option to pause the tool for a set amount of time after a certain number of follows have been completed.

6. The days of the week on which the tool will perform actions, with the option to rotate the days of operation and exclude weekends if desired.

7. The maximum number of users to be followed per day, with SU Social selecting a random number between a specified range to use as the daily limit.

8. This option will help you decrease the wait time between each operation (option 1) daily by a specific number of minutes.

💡 On rotating days, SU Social would pick the equivalent number of days you have initially selected; the selection is random and you have the option to exclude weekends in the variation in case you don’t want to follow on Saturdays and Sundays.

Follow Limits:

1. In this option you can set to Follow x and y value per day, then you can also increase the value daily until it reaches the maximum value of follows per day that you set.

2. In this option you can set how many follow actions per hour.

3. In this option you can set how many follow actions per month, when it reaches the value you set, it will automatically stop the tool from following.

4. Enable Contextual Actions – This will follow suggested users after every follow action (this option is only available on the Instagram platform)

5. Enable automatic follow/unfollow – this option is very useful when you want to set a balance between your followers and followings, you can easily set it up and let the follow and unfollow tools automatically switch as per your settings

6. Send to Extracted users – if you do not want to follow users straight away you can use this option. It will send the users to the ‘Extracted Users’ tab and from there you can configure it to send them to other tools and accounts.

7. Favor sources with high follow back ratio – When used, individual sources with a higher follow back ratio will be favored.

8. Scrape all users before following – you can use this option to start following only after scraping all users required in a single operation.

9. Abort scrape if API calls exceed a specific number – you can use this option to abort the scrape operation when API calls exceed a specific number. useful if you want to limit the scrapers from doing too many API calls per operation.

10. Do not follow users contacted with the Contact tool –  use this option if you want the tool to skip following users that appear in the pending section or in the results of the Contact tool.

User Filters (applies to Instagram, Pinterest, and Twitter only)

In the Follow Settings tab, you have the option to selectively follow users or boards through the use of filters. If a user or board doesn’t meet the filter criteria, they will not be added to your follow list.

  1. User has only English characters in Bio, username – use this option if you want to avoid following users with non-English characters in their profile.
  2. User has profile image – use this option to follow users that have a profile image.
  3. User has a cover image – use this option to follow users with a cover image in their profile.
  4. User has a minimum number of tweets – You can use this filter to follow active users that have a minimum of X tweets in their profile.
  5. These two options will help you follow users that have a range of followers/followings.
  6. User has a follow ratio (followers/following) greater than / User has a follow ratio (followers/following) smaller than – Following users based on their follow ratio can be achieved by utilizing these 2 filters. This technique proves to be beneficial when aiming to follow active accounts.The follow ratio is calculated by dividing the number of followers an account has by the number of people they follow.  For instance, if Account A has 2000 followers and follows 4000 accounts, the follow ratio would be computed as 2000/4000 = 0.5, resulting in a follow ratio of 0.5 for Account A.
  7. User Bio has a minimum of characters – You can use this option to follow only if the user has a minimum of X characters, it’s useful to avoid following bot accounts.
  8. Use this option to avoid following users with specific words in their bio.
  9. Use this option to follow only users with specific words in their bio.
  10. This option will help you to follow active users by following users who postedd in the last X days.
  11. If a user is already following your account, the tool will avoid following him if this option is checked.
  12. Use this option to avoid following private users.
  13. This option will help skip following users that post adult content.
  14. This option can help skip following users with a username that ends with a series of numbers (example: James0111248).
  15. Use this option to follow users by gender. to use this option, you need to set up a list of names in the option “Show male/female names” in the SETTINGS > Software Settings.

Follow tool Settings (not applicable to Instagram, LinkedIn, Youtube and Quora)

  • You can opt to follow ‘recent’ items search on Tumblr.
  • For Twitter and Pinterest can choose to follow random users from the extracted list as recorded in the Extracted Users tab (instead of following them in order).

After Follow Actions (for Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest only)

For Instagram:

  • Just like it says, after a user is followed, you can select to do additional actions such as like and/or comment on user’s latest post and send a direct message
  • Included in this section is the feature that lets you auto-accept pending follow request (if the account running the Follow tool is set to Private) as well as the ability to remove some sources that are not up to par with your desired “follow back” ratio.
  • You also have the option to mute the user after follow to keep your feed well kept.
  • To increase your chance of getting followed back, you can opt to view the story of the user you just followed.
  • And if you prefer to keep a constant number of followings, you can choose to unfollow oldest follow user after follow.

For Twitter:

  • You have the option to ‘Like’ the latest posts of the user that was just followed; this will help you get noticed by users you followed.
  • Mute user after follow.

Follow tool Sources

The selection of sources plays a crucial role in reaching users who may have a potential interest in your offerings, thereby increasing the likelihood of conversions.

Follow people by keyword search is a feature offered on all social networks, but that’s just scratching the surface. Each platform boasts its own set of exclusive follow source options. In the sample image below, you will see the sources you can use for Twitter.

Instagram:

  • Follow people by keyword search
  • Follow by username/fullname/bio
  • Follow followers of target accounts
  • Follow followers of own followers
  • Follow Specific Users
  • Follow using Geo Location
  • Follow users that interacted with posts on target accounts
  • Follow users that interacted with posts on target posts
  • Follow users that tagged Specific Users
  • Follow suggested users
  • Follow own story viewers
  • Follow from Explore Page
  • Follow From Explore Shopping Page

Twitter:

  • Follow people by keyword search
  • Follow friends of targeted accounts
  • Follow followers of own followers
  • Follow people from a provided list
  • Follow members from provided Twitter list
  • Follow active users – that have retweeted/liked posts
  • Follow people from a custom URL

Pinterest:

  • Follow people by keyword search
  • Follow boards by keyword search
  • Follow friends of targeted accounts
  • Follow followers of own followers
  • Follow people from a provided list
  • Follow friends of target Boards

Tumblr:

  • Follow people by keyword search
  • Follow people from a provided list

Quora:

  • Follow people by keyword search
  • Follow specific users
  • Custom URL

LinkedIn:

  • Keyword search

Youtube:

  • Follow users/channels by keyword search
  • Source – Users/Channels by videos keyword search
  • Follow users/channels from provided list
  • Follow people from a custom url
  • Follow people that comment on specified vides

Follow tool Results

From this tab, you will see the users/boards that were followed and you’ll find additional information such as:

  • The date and time when the user was followed
  • Name of that user
  • What source was used to follow the user
  • Followed Back column will show you if this user followed you back or not
  • Unfollowed column will show you if you unfollowed these users through SU SOCIAL or not

In addition, you can export the results, import followers, delete results and export follow back ratio.

✅ The follow back ratio is a valuable tool that displays the efficiency of your follow sources, enabling you to determine which sources should be maintained and which should be discarded. This feature is determined by the number of users who return the follow after you have followed them. Hence, the sources that generated the highest number of followers should be preserved.

Conclusion

In conclusion, the SU Social Follow tool is a powerful automation tool that helps you effectively reach your target audience on various social media platforms such as Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, Quora, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Pinterest. The tool provides various settings and configurations, such as run timers, follow limits, user filters, follow settings, and after follow actions, allowing you to personalize your experience and make a lasting impression on your target audience. Whether you want to follow big accounts in your niche or target users with specific interests, the SU Social Follow tool is an essential tool for anyone looking to grow their online presence and attain the attention of their target audience.

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