Have you ever wondered if buying followers on TikTok is a good idea? The answer is NO. In this article we explain all the reasons why it is not only useless, but it is also counterproductive!
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As was imaginable, the first follower sales services appeared on TikTok as well. These services are very simple and also work for other social networks such as Facebook and Instagram.
The user has the possibility to buy (literally, with money) a more or less large amount of followers, according to the needs. Clearly the more you buy, the more the sales site will give us a discount.
Followers usually arrive in a few business days, assuming they arrive. In fact, all these online shopping services are of dubious legality and very often require non-legalized payments, often with Paypal. But even assuming the legality of these services there are many others against buying followers online.
1st reason: do not buy followers on TikTok because they are not needed
The first reason why we should never buy followers is that there is absolutely no reason. While on Instagram you could find a ratio (albeit very fleeting) in the possibility of inserting the swipe up in the stories once you reach 10,000 followers, on TikTok there is not an obvious advantage in having a greater number of followers. In fact, both the link in the bio and the possibility to make direct, are unlocked “only” to 1000 followers on TikTok. Having 1000 followers on TikTok is much easier than expected. If we can’t even get 1000 followers in the workforce, it is better to spend time studying the TikTok algorithm, rather than spending money on followers.
It is useless to increase this “vanity metrics” as it does not derive a direct advantage, if not to brag to friends. With companies you have no advantage, since the quality of the influencer is now evaluated by the engagement rate, not by the number of followers. So if you want to buy them to brag, go ahead, but you are throwing some money and above all you are throwing your profile for an Authority speech that we will analyze later. If you really want to spend money to grow, you should invest in our advice on TikTok, with our advice you will make many more followers.
2nd reason: these followers don’t interact
The second reason is even more important.
Purchased followers are not guaranteed in quality, in the sense that they are usually inactive profiles, created specifically for this sales service. How many chances are there that an Indian profile, who does not speak english at all, will interact with us? Virtually 0. But let’s go further and assume that the follower is real and american, who guarantees us that that profile is interested in our niche and our profile? Nobody. We can say with scientific certainty that these followers won’t interact with us even once.
3rd reason not to buy followers on TikTok
On TikTok you can grow a lot and quickly in organic, only with the videos posted. We won’t go too far in this article, but we offer another reading to understand how to grow on TikTok quickly. For now, just know that you can get more free followers than you can ever buy if you create a winning growth strategy.
4th reason: no control over delivery
These purchasing services usually work in packages. For example, 1000 new followers, € 10. So far it would seem that everything is under control, but this is not the case. It is indeed impossible to prove this increase in followers. In fact, our profile could also grow organically in the same period of time, making it impossible to attribute the growth to the workforce or to the sales service. In these cases you can try to make a complaint, but it is practically impossible because most of the services are scammers and do not have any kind of customer care. Payment is always in advance upon delivery of followers and therefore the risk of scam is always around the corner
5th and final reason not to buy followers on TikTok: damage to the authority
Each TikTok profile has its own authority, a quality score that the algorithm entrusts to it and on which the future results of that profile will depend. If we post a lot of viral videos, our authority will increase, if we do bad things (for example, by deleting videos), it will decrease. It is very likely that the authority of a profile has a great impact on the number of views that the videos of that profile make. But let’s get back to buying followers. TikTok is very likely to understand when a profile decides to buy followers and decides to penalize them. The first penalty undoubtedly concerns the damage of authority, as just stated. Furthermore, there is a concrete possibility that he decides to ban us by closing our profile.