I just noticed I get 4 to 5 follows per day on average. But the total hasn’t budged in months!
Is it that social media shit people do? Like they follow you and when you follow them they unfollow you?
I’m curious and confused.
Please let me know if you guys have noticed it too.
Meanwhile I figure out how to counter this stupidity because then I’m the one wasting my time going through their blogs, from my reader.
I hate when typical and borderline unethical social media tactics make their way here.
Nah, it happens to me too. I don’t have as many follows per day, nor as many followers overall as you. But my numbers go up by, say, one or two, then the numbers drop the next day by the same amount. I’ve been sitting at 225 followers for aaages.
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This didn’t use to happen here before but i guess people have started treating wordpress like instagram or something now.
Will comb through my list one day and get rid of these ex-followers.
It’s just frustrating
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I’ve also noticed an increase in followers who don’t read and comment on my posts even though do so for them. It happens a lot I know, and they use the excuse that they’re too busy or the time difference complicates matters. We’re all busy, none of us can read everyone’s stuff but geez it’s a bit selfish I reckon. At least have a look every now and then!
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I get super busy too but then i tqke a day and go through the my reader. WordPress has changed in recent year. It’s not the same place it was 3 4 years back.
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Yeah, I’ve noticed that too.
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I kinda miss old wordpress
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Yeah a lot of us do 🙂
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🙂
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If ppl follow then unfollow me on my IG I just block them. Not sure how to track, if any, on here.
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I will try to match my followers and following list. Normal when someone follows me i follow back soon. I think i have done this before. Will do this for last year and declutter my list. For now thats the plan.
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I just get scammers and fake people/profiles following my blog. 😦
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That’s happening a lot recently idk why. A lot of new followers aren’t reading for sure.
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Oh I don’t get any “readers”, esp. since I deleted my T.witter account and don’t share it there anymore. 😦
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I don’t think i got any followerd or readers from twitter. One way here was to browse authors writing similar subjects but havent done that in a while too.
Sometimes wordpress itself unfollows people from your list too.
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I get new followers but I don’t follow back unless I’m interested in their blog. I can’t keep up and I think it’s up to them if they want to leave again…. Xx
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That’s better way to do it. I kinda feel oblidged idk why. 99% of the times i have followed back. Only when i completely dont understand the other blog, then i don’t follow. Otherwise i do.
But you are right, saves times and energy and allows you to focus on real people
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I have met some good friends here and I try and keep up with them, but life gets in the way sometimes. I hope my blog is interesting and a bit entertaining. I won’t add adverts, there are enough of them in the world!
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These days i catch most of your work on instagram and it’s awesome every time!
I have had a great support system here too and i really needed that. But recently things don’t feel like the same.
Then people in general are going through a lot, so maybe things will get better later on.
I added adverts for a few days and quickly realized it’s not worth it.
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That’s interesting x I don’t like the new look here and there’s stuff I can’t do anymore… Yes glad to see you at Instagram too x
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Yea it just became harder for no reason. I miss old wordpress so bad, I’m not as comfortable as I was before.
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I know. But we will both learn I guess… Xxx
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yea. learning curve gets a bit wonky at times but we will get there xx
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Xxx
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Mine have been going up a smidge each day, but even so I think ppl do what you said. Sometimes I get followed again by someone who must have dropped me… but i do that too! 🤣
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Sometimes wordpress itself unfollows people from your list. That has happened to me so many times. Actually it shows different on different divices too. I could be following someone on my phone and for God know what reason not on my laptop. Its just messed up. then i have to follow them back.
But this thing. people follow you the number goes up and drops to the same old number next day, it’s suspecious!
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Don’t get paranoid, it is the nature of the beast and the bears are hibernating. We might overdramatise when I a rut. The snow will melt soon and the sun shine again!
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Not being paranoid at all. I wouldn’t mind if i wasn’t going through blogs of every person i follow. It take time and dedication I can invest into something more meaningful.
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All I glean from a ‘healthy’ number of ‘followers’ on a site is that it’s an indication of the longevity of the site. A low number just says to me that it’s a new site, and I don’t hold that against it — I tend to judge by quality of content, not follower count.
At the end of the day, ‘followers’ does not equate to ‘audience’. After a dozen years blogging here, ‘Wibble’ now has 1100 followers; but the number of daily visitors is far, far fewer.
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I actually follow-back new bloggers because everyone needs encouragement when they are new here. And quality of content is definitely important but in the end i just end up following all of them unless it’s a magazine or something (which happens too)
Agreed. out of 3550 only 50 to 100 are regular readers i guess. Which i really treasure. I would be happy if there were 2. But when i see people following just to increase thier own followers and then unfollowing, it’s kinda cheap thing to do.
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I’ve been deleting busnesses. They don’t need to Follow me.
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I might do that as well. thanks 🙂
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I’d follow you anywhere, you know that, right? 😀
And yes, the same thing here, but I got used to it. I have my favorite bloggers that I read, not as much as I would like to, and you know why I am always out of time, but I am sticking to my close community of Commanders that I built and that is quite enough for me. Perhaps you should do something similar. Just sayin’, don’t punch me or anything.
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ahaha i know.
no you are right. we all have to little time and too much to do, with that it gets hard to give attention to people who follow just to get following and then they unfollow you.. it’s unfair.
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