Adwoa Aboah Quotes

I've always said that I feel lucky to live in the era of social media and be a working model in this time. Back in the day, models were just another face. But social media has given people a voice and not just another face. Not only can you show the world your personality and stuff like that, but you can be a brand ambassador easily.

I was surprised to know I had so many hits on YouTube.

I remember asking one of my agents, like, 'Hey, is this Instagram thing good for models, or is it bad?' And they said, 'No. Keep doing it. Heidi Klum, or whoever, has millions of followers, and that doesn't hurt them.' So, I kept with it. I think it definitely helped.

I haven't been recognized out in public or anything. The strangeness of celebrity has been relegated to Twitter, which is kind of manageable.

My sister's a singer, and she's on Twitter, and she has millions of followers. I wonder how that helps her. I think it does to an extent. I think she gets free things.

Influence is the new power - if you have influence, you can create a brand.

Social media is an ever-changing world. You want to be ready if a certain platform becomes red-hot, and you don't want someone else taking your company name as his or her handle. That does happen!

I guess you can be a supermodel today just by building followers. You don't necessarily have to do the work of going to Milan and then to Paris or New York, trying to find the right photographer, artist, or designer to see you.

It's weird: when I first got on Twitter, I had a couple hundred, then thousand, followers. Now I have over 53,000.

I have no interest that I go to India or go to Hollywood or Bollywood. I'm not interested. I am a social media sensation. This is what I like.

I'm very active on social media and see the huge impact it has on engaging with fans and being able to have a voice.

People didn't go on YouTube to get famous back when I started.

I have never been attracted to increasing my popularity or hireability by being on Instagram.

I wasn't aware of social media fame, it was more just making videos with my friends.

I had no idea at all how to model, but people would start to follow me. So, I would go to these start-up companies and say, 'I have all these followers... how can we work together?'

I think time has changed a lot and you need to be presentable all the time. Social media has become really important and I feel some artistes must not be sleeping as they need to be visible all the time.

I've got a group chat with my friends, and they were telling me I was blowing up on Twitter. I don't really look into those things, though.

Millions of followers doesn't equal millions of dollars.

Frankly, TV stars are not that popular. In fact, I don't have even have a million followers on any of social media accounts.

When 'Game Of Thrones' came out, lots of interviews were coming in, and people asking me to do certain things which would push me out there. Like this whole Instagram and Twitter thing - getting more followers doesn't bother me at all.

People are bound to comment, and that means they are following me.

There are two types of people on social media: people who want more followers, and liars.

With the advent of radical and accessible technology, each one of us, for the first time in history, is creating an influential mark forever - we are all mini-digital celebrities and heroes to someone.

I have over 2 million followers now on Google Plus.

Celebrities have more influence to be able to reach out to people, but people are becoming famous on Facebook and social media every day.