Instagram followers
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The native Instagram Business User Insights data shows total (net) followers, which matches the follower count you see on the user's Instagram page.
Fivetran's User Insights transformation shows all followers, which doesn't take into account followers that have unfollowed. This makes it impossible to obtain up to date, accurate metrics on a user's IG account.
Please add a field to show net followers!
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Official comment
Hi Kristie, Drew from the Product Team here.
Definitely hear your challenge here. We'll take a look at how we can fulfill this request. I'll post here with updates.
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Hello Support team,
I would like to request for the same - a field for the net followers in Instagram connector.
Thanks !
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Adding that this would be very beneficial to our team as well. It appears that "followers_count" is a field that is available from the IG User endpoint, but currently Fivetran is only pulling "follows_count": https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-api/reference/ig-user
Brandon
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Hi. I wanted to come here to request the same thing. In the user_history table we have "follows_count" which is nice but I doubt many people care to look at this field when analyzing their Instagram data.. As others have pointed out, "followers_count" is available through the API and would be very beneficial to have added to the user_history table.
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This is now available. We have introduced a new field called follower_count to the user_history table. This field will show the net followers.
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