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1K Followers on DEV.to! πŸŽ‰

Horrrrrreyyyyyy! Guys, I finally hit 1K followers! πŸ˜­πŸŽ‰ I'm sooo happy! Yeah, most of them might be bots, but still, I've never had 1K followers before. This is the first time I've ever seen my follower count reach 1K!


Spacial followers
πŸ’₯@maame-codes
πŸ’₯@ndcodes
πŸ’₯@csm18
πŸ’₯@nyaomaru
πŸ’₯@dev2023-op
πŸ’₯@xulingfeng
πŸ’₯@effessdev
πŸ’₯@akhourianmolkumar
πŸ’₯@gtref
πŸ’₯@hemapriya_kanagala


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EffessDev •

This quickly?! 🀯 Congrats! πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘ Thanks for including me on the list 😊

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Sᴛᴀʀ⭐ •

Thanks for your support bro! Appreciate it!πŸ₯°

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EffessDev •

I appreciate you including me on the list 😊😊😊

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Sᴛᴀʀ⭐ • • Edited

No problem, bro! πŸ₯°You’re my friend. Bro, what kind of content should we create for our organization ?

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EffessDev •

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Sᴛᴀʀ⭐ •

Rust?

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EffessDev •

🀣

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Sᴛᴀʀ⭐ •

You : I don't know!
Me : you know everything😒

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EffessDev •

What does that mean? πŸ€”

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Sᴛᴀʀ⭐ •

When I ask you a question, you don’t give me any ideas, and when I asked @technogamerz, he hasn’t even replied yet or liked my comment.

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EffessDev •

She might be busy...

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Sᴛᴀʀ⭐ • • Edited

How do you know?

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EffessDev •

Because she's pursuing MBA?

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Sᴛᴀʀ⭐ •

But she used to be online before, right?πŸ€”

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EffessDev •

Maybe she has become busy now?

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Sᴛᴀʀ⭐ •

Hmm maybe!

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Giorgi Kobaidze • • Edited

Guess what? You've got one more follower, and I'm definitely not a bot (I can prove it).πŸ˜‚

Keep up the great work!⭐

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Sᴛᴀʀ⭐ •

Thanks πŸ₯° I know you are not a bot!

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Odinaka Robert Nnamani •

A thousand followers in a week is a number that makes me ask what actually did the converting, because I spent this week counting followers gained across my own surfaces and the honest result was nearly flat despite replies and views climbing. The one exception in my own data was a single substantive reply that moved more followers than weeks of original posts, which taught me that the count follows the conversation, not the post. Your list of people in the post suggests the community did a lot of the lifting here, and that's a real mechanism, not a vanity number. What would you say converted most β€” the posts themselves, the comment threads, or the people you named showing up for you?

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Sᴛᴀʀ⭐ •

If I were to give you some advice, I’d suggest that you first engage with other people’s posts by commenting and reacting to them. Don’t do too much at once, though, as the Dev algorithm might mistake you for a bot. You should also create and share your own posts. That’s just my suggestion!

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Odinaka Robert Nnamani •

The pacing point is fair, and I would add a sharper filter than volume: a reply only earns a return visit when it challenges a specific claim, not when it just agrees. In my experience, broad commenting got polite likes and almost no return readers, while a comment that named a counterexample β€” for example, a case where the author's rule broke β€” brought the author back to my own posts. Creating your own posts helps for the same reason only if the post makes a testable claim a reader can argue with. Do you find that a specific disagreement converts better than a supportive comment, or is it the other way around for you?

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nyaomaru •

Congras! πŸ˜ΈπŸŽ‰

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Sᴛᴀʀ⭐ •

Thanks πŸ₯°

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csm •

Rising star! πŸ”₯

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Sᴛᴀʀ⭐ •

Yeah bro πŸ’₯πŸ₯° Thanks πŸ₯°βœ¨πŸ—½

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Nnamdi Felix Ibe •

Congratulations, Star, and thank you for the mention. On content: write about the tech you love, the struggles, and your own take on what you learned, because a post someone can argue with gets replies, while a post nobody can disagree with just gets likes.

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Sᴛᴀʀ⭐ •

Thanks πŸ₯° Okay bro!😊

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G-type •

Well done on reaching 1K!

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Sᴛᴀʀ⭐ •

Thanks my friend! πŸ˜€

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G-type •

Also I appreciate the mention on the list.πŸ˜€

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Sᴛᴀʀ⭐ •

Yes, you’re not just a member of our org, you’re our friend toooo!

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Owen Ross •

Nice One! Thanks for the credit

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Sᴛᴀʀ⭐ •

No problem! Thanks πŸ₯°