microinfluencer

English

Alternative forms

• micro-influencer

Etymology

From micro- (“small, tiny”) +‎ influencer (“influential person on social media”).

Noun

microinfluencer (plural microinfluencers)

1. (social media) An Internet celebrity with a relatively small following on a social media platform.

   Coordinate terms: macroinfluencer, nanoinfluencer

   • 2017 April 17, Rachel Monroe, “#Vanlife, the Bohemian Social-Media Movement”, in The New Yorker‎^[1]:

     Accounts with between fifty thousand and two hundred thousand followers are considered “microinfluencers,” and tend to have higher engagement rates—that is, a larger share of their followers like, favorite, or comment on their posts—than those with millions of followers.

   • 2018 November 11, Sapna Maheshwari, “Are You Ready for the Nanoinfluencers?”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     By now you have probably heard of influencers, that group of internet-famous people who have more than a million social media followers and can make big money by plugging various brands. And you may have even heard of microinfluencers, who do the same thing for a still sizable but somewhat smaller social media audience — from the tens to low hundreds of thousands.