Like Me, Follow Me, Fan Me: Is The Social ‘Ask’ Overused? [INFOGRAPHIC]

Asking people to follow you on Twitter, friend you on Facebook, or simply to like you or something that you have done, has become entirely commonplace within the world of social media.

PR firm Sevans Strategy and branding specialists Alterian teamed up to investigate further, tracking over 3.3 million different ‘asks’ across Flickr, Blogger, YouTube, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Facebook and Twitter. End result? Perhaps unsurprisingly, the most popular ‘ask’ was ‘follow me’, and 95.9 percent of all such requests were made on Twitter.

Highlights from the research:

  • In March this year, the team counted more than 3.3
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