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Tomasz Garboliński
Tomasz Garboliński

Reputation: 9

Why follower_count insight metric returns the number of new followers of a given day, instead of Total number of unique users following?

It seems there is a bug in the definition of folower_count insight metric in Facebook graph API for Instagram Business Accounts.

your_instagram_business_account/insights?metric=follower_count&period=day

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-api/reference/user/insights

They wrote that this is "Total number of unique users following the Business Account", but we observed that this metric give us the number of new followers of a given day. Also, there is no information about the number of unfollows, so if on the same day it would be 2 new followers and 2 unfollows, the follower_count will be 0.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1890

Answers (1)

Brooklin Myers
Brooklin Myers

Reputation: 313

According to the documentation you provided, follower_count is defined as

Total number of new followers each day within the specified range

so this lines up with expectations. Admittedly I'm answering this a bit late so that definition may have changed since you posted this.

the followers_count (note the 's') may be what you're looking for.

Upvotes: 3

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