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		chistev 66 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Instagram public accounts with less than 1k follow... What makes "less than" wrong? Interested to learn.

gs17 66 days ago [–]

It's that followers are countable. "Less" and "fewer" get more mixed in usage, but "many" vs "much" is more clear IMO. "I don't have many followers" is considered more proper than "I don't have much followers" (but you could say "I don't have much of a following").

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