AI Overviews cite social 19.5M times monthly, and follower count doesn't decide it
Analysis of 300M+ US searches shows Google's AI Overviews cite Facebook 19.5M times a month, Instagram ~877K, TikTok ~78K. AI rewards content that answers the exact query, not big audiences: a 3,000-follower post outranks a 500K-follower brand. Reach is not influence, so audit which sources AI actually pulls.