In plain English
Following can involve a request that waits for a yes or no answer. Approving followers means saying yes to follow requests from other social-media users. Once accepted, those users count as followers of your account.
In context
Here, "approve followers" offers the action of accepting waiting follow requests so those requesting users become followers of your account.
- Situation
- Managing profiles, usernames, privacy, audience, discoverability, and account visibility
- What it communicates
- offers the action to accept waiting followers
Meaning limits
The term itself does not say anything about those users beyond the fact that their follow requests are accepted.
Examples
“She approved followers one by one and left the suspicious requests pending.”
“After breakfast, he logged in to approve followers after several follow requests had been waiting since the night before.”