new delhi spending time on social media networks can not only get you likes but it can also help to earn some quick bucks many social media users are reportedly earning good money via their posts including interactive ones like videos gifs etc it all depends on the number of followers a particular user has and how many likes or views a post of theirs typically gets on the internetthese social media influencers are mostly just regular people who post about their everyday life and passions in their own idiosyncratic way which translates into hundreds and thousands and even millions of followers across platforms like facebook twitter youtube instagram snapchatread alsofrom dombivli to zambia desi social media influencers make likes countwhen sanjay meriya was born in 1989 his profession did not exist and social media networking meant getting together with friends at the neighbourhood video game parlour for a match studying to be a doctor at the nair hospital medical college in 2007 if anyone had suggested that one day he couldthe followers are a sizeable population swayed not by actors rockers or sports stars but by these online celebrities who create their own eclectic content be it travel cooking fashion comedy gaming or pets these influencers are unafraid to tell the world about ordinary or climactic moments their pet cats windsurfing feat a new sleeping position or a savage meme about the royal wedding at times fortified with hashtagsonce the ordinary joes and janes of the internet what they do and how they do it all of that matters to enough people now who are enabling them to parlay their likes into lucrative living with brands both big and small coughing up big bucks for a post or a tweetheres a breakup of the big monies social media stars across different categories are paid category a more than 5 lakh followers over rs 1 lakh category b 1 lakh to 5 lakh followers rs 50000 to rs 1 lakh category c 50000 to 1 lakh followers rs 20000 to rs 50000 category d 20000 to 50000 followers rs 5000 to rs 20000micro influencers2000 to 20000 followers rs 2000 to rs 5000everyday influencers500 to 2000 followers rs 200 to rs 2000on an average india has an estimated 350000 social media influencers currently