You can reach even more followers if you do like me. I share every single post I write in all the social networks ( facebook, twitter, linkedin, reddit, google plus ). I record videos on youtube about steemit. I share the links in the best facebook groups I know. I share in all promotion channels in steem.chat. I share also in all discord channels I am participating in. Let's see how fast you will get 1000 followers that way. My goal is 4000 and I am going to it. But I am on steemit exactly 308 days. More than 10 months.