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How to store a follow-up of my followers on Instagram

As a digital marketer, you might have to build a historical evolution of your total followers day by day of your Instagram Business account. But when you go to our Dataslayer Instagram Insights integration and try some queries, you see that, currently, the only available metrics on Instagram Insights to study the followers are "New Followers" and "Current Followers".

The "New Followers" metric only shows the NEW followers your account has, and it only supports querying data for the last 30 days excluding the current day:


The "Current Followers" metric always shows the CURRENT followers your account has:


If you want a daily and historical evolution of your total followers, you can do it with our Google Sheets extension.

Building a daily and historical evolution of your total followers on GOOGLE SHEETS:
Open our Google Sheets extension.
Link your Instagram account.
Build your query with "Date" as a dimension and "Current Followers" as a metric. Select "Yesterday" as the default date range.
Select our "Combine new with old results" option.

Click on "Generate Table" and then schedule your sheet.
Link your spreadsheet with your Google Data Studio dashboard.

See the results:


This is the way you can build a daily and historical evolution of your total Instagram followers!
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Updated on: 27/04/2023

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