They gave value

I'm sure many are bots.

They are on the primal recommended list 😂

Be early. Engage often.

Engage and build. People are more likely to follow you when they know you’re a real person, nontoxic, and productive. Many with 10’s of thousands of followers were super early and on client auto-follows and bulk lists.

Bring something awesome to the table. Find a creative niche. Contribute. Don’t worry about how many followers you have. I started making roll-up holders for pens & gadgets and put ‘em on #penroll Now I’m making the Nostr Watch. #nostrwatch

Followers are a misnomer on Nostr. Just participate and have fun and engage with people. If you’re providing value. People will spread your stuff, too. You can never really know what your follower numbers are here. It’s not like centralized social media.

Engage with others, genuinely and often. Zaps help, reposts help. Posting into the void without engaging won't get you anywhere, gotta engage.

I assume they were early adopters or talk about polular topjcs. Personally I just engage and find joy in the smaller interactions, and then if people enjoy what I post they follow me on their own accord.

Talk to people under their own notes. People won't come to you.

Top follower accounts: influencooors / people that are friends with top follower accounts and get boosted by them constantly / genuinely great people that actually deserve the massive following. High follower accounts: Very, very active with a fair degree of help from big account boosts. Mid follo...

Inactive npubs. Many were recommended devs to follow in onboarding or auto followed. I think at some point someone put me into some onboarding recommended people to follow .

Apps like Primal were adding like 200 people to people’s follow list when creating an account. Not sure if they’re still doing that.

IDK. i was up over 1k now I'm at 350ish. but it goes up and down for no reason that i can fathom so i stopped looking at it. 🤣

Post as often as possible for as long as possible. Helps if you have good takes, not shit ones

When I joined there were a list of people to follow; many were recognizable names, so naturally I chose to follow to see what they’re posting. I’m sure many like me were fed the same list upon onboarding which leads to huge numbers for those folks.