HOW TO GAIN MORE PROFILE FOLLOWERS

The social network as we know it, is all about connection and communication, and today it seems to be about the a common word “follow”. The word as it is now, is virtually being used by all major networking sites like Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook among others. Some days ago, I saw these facts about twitter which inspired me to write this post. Thus:

30 year old singer, Katy Perry (@katyperry) has highness the number of followers with 74-million+ followers.

Seconded by 21 year old fellow singer, Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) with 66million+ followers.

Third is the U.S President’s (@barackobama) with 63million+ followers

The fourth being 25 year old American singer & actress, Taylor Swift’s (@taylorswift13) 62 million+ followers.

The fifth is 29 year old Stefani A. Germanotta, popularly known as Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) garnering about 49 million followers.

(All as of Aug. 17,2015)

Oh, seems interesting, especially considering their age, maybe in exception of the U.S President who is 51 years old, though still a youth. How did they all reach that feat? Let me show you; it’s exposed.

INFLUENCE- That’s it! They were just able to influence minds through what they do; the more the influence, the more the followers. Take for example, Nigeria’s hip-hop artistes, Wizkid and Davido both adding over 900,000 Twitter followers in the space of two years, 2013 to 2015. Imagine the influence of their songs today on many Nigerians to have added up such number in the short period. How many followers do you also have and what are you doing to gain more profile followers?

I am not just writing on how to gain followers on your social media profiles alone, though it matters, but also talking about gaining more followers to your heavenly profile. Christians have by far made the mistake of having a wrong idea about social network, claiming it is corruptive while the devil keeps enlarging his tentacles through it. Jesus has 2.1 billion+ followers, credit to being social. He used everything common in His generation to gain some while He was very much around with them… When they introduced magic, He introduced miracles; when they introduced philanthropy, He introduced love; when School of Law was common, He brought about Seminars/Conference; so tell me, if He is to be around again, would He not improvise on the use of social media?

If we who are called Christians fail to rise to influence the world through what is common to our generation (social media), then satan, the prince of the world will influence his people for its effective usage, just as they do now. We need leaders today, like Apostle Peter, who gained about 5000 followers for Christ in just a day; like Daniel, who brought almost the whole Nation to follow God. Although there are some leaders striving to strengthen their profiles (heavenly and socially) through what they do but quite few of them, examples including Joel Osteen, Joyce Meyer, T.D Jakes, John Maxwell, Sam Adeyemi, E.A Adeboye, Dayo Israel… you can also join the list if you rise to the call.

You can learn more about influence in my next ad, however, it is needful to understand now that it takes someone at the top of a pit to lift up someone in the pit. Remember Jesus’ words when He saw a glorious future for Himself, He said, “If I be lifted up from the earth, I’ll draw men to follow me” (emphasis added). Will you also be able to say in true conscience, that, “If I be lifted up, I’ll draw men to follow Jesus as I am”?