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Supporter/People - Difference?

Having real trouble understanding the difference between supporter and people. I signed in through Twitter and it added all of them. I can only afford the 100,000 version, but if everyone adds their twitter followers it could get far too big. Any advice on this would be great! (still new at using Nationbuilder)

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Everyone in your database is a person.  Each person can be one of the following:

Supporters are anyone who has said they want to receive updates from you or taken some kind of action. It can be as simple as following you on Twitter, but it can also be someone who has donated money, volunteered, or signed up on the website in any way.  NationBuilder will automatically determine whether someone is a supporter or a non-supporter.

Non-supporters are people who don't want to receive updates and haven't taken any action on your website.  They are in your database because they have unsubscribed, or they might have tweeted about you (but aren't following you), things like that.

Prospects are people you have added to your database who have not taken any action required to be deemed a supporter, but you want them to. 

So for billing purposes, it's quite possible you will have 100,000 prospects in your database because you are running for office, but only have 5,000 people actually supporting you.  That would qualify as the $19/mo plan.

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