Countries of follow on Micro.Blog
I deliberately try to follow diverse people on Micro.Blog. Occasionally I unfollow someone if I find their posts just don't really interest me. Unfortunately, on scanning the list of 350+ people I follow I'd estimate half or more aren't actually active. 😒
I aim to find people from other countries, provided I have some kind of hope of understanding what they're writing about — that's just a language issue. The Discover feed is a great source for finding people.
Photos of dogs, cats, landscapes are highly likely to 'hook' me. I also try to follow any women on Micro.Blog.
I currently follow people who are in or seem to be from these countries and who seem to still be active:
- New Zealand (of course)
- Australia
- Austria
- Brazil (added 27-Nov-20)
- Canada
- Denmark
- England
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Iceland
- India
- Ireland (added 26-Nov-20)
- Italy (added 04-Jan-20)
- Mexico
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Philippines (added 26-Nov-20)
- Poland (added 26-Nov-20)
- Portugal (added 26-Nov-20)
- Puerto Rico
- Scotland
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Turkey
- USA
- Vietnam (added 27-Nov-20)
This list of countries may not be utterly accurate — sometimes it's my best guess. There may be others I follow where I just don't know where they live. I must say, 19 countries is a pretty pleasing number.
Update 19-Dec-19: added India, so now 20 countries.
Update 26-Nov-20: I checked my list and added several countries. Note: visit [micro.blog](https://micro.blog/)[name]/following to see the list of follows.
Gabz I guess Puerto Rico falls under USA (plus I am currently not living down there) 🤔😅
Miraz Jordan @Gabz Oh, I would have included it as a separate 'country’. Sorry, I forgot your PR connection. Happy to add it in…
Miraz Jordan @Gabz I added PR. 😀 My definition of 'country' is loose. I thought I followed someone from Alaska and was hoping to add that, evn though I know perfectly well that it's a state not a country. My blog, my rules… 😀
rom haha! @manton there is an idea here - to be able to provide a map of those we follow. LOL. ;)
Gabz The best explination I've herd about Alaska was "It's just a frozen Puerto Rico" 😂😂
Miraz Jordan @Gabz Hah! I’ve never visited either place, but that sounds excellent.
Smokey Ardisson This is one of those interesting “following” statistics I’d like to know for myself, too, but I don’t have the time/patience to figure it out right now ;-)
(I’ve been thinking for a while about how to figure out how many people I follow have posted (and/or replied) in the past day/week/month/year, too; my suspicion is that the daily/weekly number is around 100….)
💬 John Philpin 
Martin Feld A lovely idea for a post! Which country’s content would you say has been the most interesting or different?
Miraz Jordan @martinfeld I don't think I can answer that, but I suspect the Scandinavian countries are the most different / unfamiliar and I love the photos that come out of them.
Martin Feld Yes, that’s fair. They are quite far away and the combination of the landscape and culture is fascinating.
Martin Feld Ahhh very interesting! Yes there is certainly a US-centrism here but following people (such as you) has been an antidote to that. There are plenty of interesting people from different countries here, even if the majority of the user base is American.
Pratik Dunno how I missed this post. I asked about this earlier this morning. I hope you keep updating this.
Miraz Jordan @pratik Well, it‘s a post, rather then a page so is less likely to be updated. If I find a ‘new' country though I'll see. 😀
Pratik Well, technically I live in the U.S. but I'm from India but that was missing from your list ;)
Miraz Jordan @pratik Ah, of course. Thank you: India made a nice round 20 countries for me. 😀