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Buying TikTok Followers: Why And How To Do It

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Peter Hasselworth

TikTok is a great source of entertainment and information, and it’s a terrific place to connect with others.

TikTok users who got onto the social media platform just to watch videos usually don’t care how many followers they have. It’s the same story for most of those who only signed up for a TikTok account so they could interact with friends or share personal videos with family members.

Many other users, though, pay a lot of attention to their follower count. They may want to impress people with the size of their fan base. They may feel validated knowing how many people want to see their videos — and that’s closely related to the sense of satisfaction that content creators feel when their painstaking work is appreciated by a large audience.

They may also understand that having a large follower count provides “social proof” that their account is important and their content is worth watching. And some may want to be able to take advantage of TikTok features that are only accessible to those with 1,000 or 10,000 followers, or monetize their follower base, or become a legitimate TikTok influencer.

Those who are interested in growing their popularity often run into a big problem, though. The platform has two billion users who upload a million videos every hour; how can you stand out and find new followers in such a crowded environment?

Most successful TikTok video creators have done it with purchased followers.

Why Buy TikTok Followers?

There’s an important fact about purchased TikTok fans that should be mentioned before we go any further. The followers you buy aren’t likely to watch or engage with your videos, give you gifts in Live streams, or care about the products you might promote.

The reason to buy followers is simple. Manual TikTok growth strategies like using lots of hashtags and creating Duets will only bring in handfuls of new followers. By contrast, purchased followers quickly and effectively jumpstart an account’s organic growth on the app.

Here’s how.

There’s way too much TikTok content being uploaded every day for all creators to have their videos seen equally; there are rules determining which posts get widespread exposure. Those rules give priority to the app’s most popular accounts, and to those rapidly becoming more popular.

The TikTok algorithms administer the rules using several account metrics to award visibility: follower count and follower growth. One makes obvious sense; the system determines popularity by the number of followers an account has.

The other metric explains why buying TikTok followers works. “Follower growth” measures how quickly a user is adding followers. When a flood of new fans flows into an account, the algorithms respond by awarding larger audiences to that account’s videos — and those seeing the content for the first time get their first chance to enjoy the content and follow the creator.

In short, purchased followers trigger the flood that leads to powerful organic TikTok growth. The new organic followers who’ve found you through your increased exposure are the ones who will engage with your posts, attend your Live events, and wait eagerly for your new posts.

There’s just one hitch: many purchased followers won’t work.

How To Buy TikTok Followers

The actual process of buying followers is simple. You visit a provider’s website, choose the number and type of followers you want, and place your order. It should take less than a minute, the followers should arrive in your TikTok account almost immediately, and organic growth should begin a short time later.

The difficult part is choosing the right website, because most vendors claiming to sell TikTok followers are running a scam. They use bots and fake accounts to create what are known in the social media service industry as “fake followers,” which quickly boost an account’s follower count — and disappear almost as quickly.

Fake TikTok followers aren’t linked to real accounts on the app, so the algorithms rapidly detect and delete them. They don’t generate growth, and they can get you banned from the platform for violating TikTok’s terms and conditions.

The only way to trigger true growth for your account is to buy real TikTok followers, who are all real people who follow you from their own real accounts on the app. Since the follows all come from real TikTok users, they’re legitimate. The algorithms never remove them, they stay as fans for the long term, and they tell the system that your content deserves more visibility.

Only a small number of TikTok services have the experience, infrastructure, and resources to find and deliver genuine followers, so it’s crucial to know that you’re dealing with a reputable provider with a long and successful history of supplying 100% real TikTok fans.

Enormous numbers of power users and influencers have gotten their start this way, and it can work for anyone who creates compelling, high-quality content that convinces their new viewers to hit the “follow” button. Trustworthy TikTok providers work quickly and at very reasonable prices, too, so it’s a fast way to supercharge account growth.

iDigic can help get you started, with a large selection of real follower packages. Feel free to check out our services!

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Peter Hasselworth is a contributor at iDigic, sharing valuable insights about Instagram growth and social media marketing strategies.

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