I see the italki “profile view” feature same like Snapchat and Instagram, we can see who viewed our posts.
I do chat the students who visited my profile or watched my videos and I got some new long term students from there. My chat is super polite, only 1 sentence and no hard selling.
For example, 1 student said she forgot to favourite my profile and 1 student said he’s so shy with his English so didn’t know where to begin the conversation.
If you could see past the annoyingness, the feature really helps some people. But I also understand if some teachers messaged you with hard selling.