Sometimes I just can’t figure out why my followers number goes up or down

Some­times I just can’t fig­ure out why my fol­low­ers num­ber goes up or down

Take the last cou­ple of days for instance. Today I’ve appar­ently gained some 50+ peo­ple. Yet I haven’t actu­ally posted very much and none of it par­tic­u­larly special.

Yes­ter­day I was down 6 peo­ple (pre­sum­ably a net loss on peo­ple I’ve gained dur­ing the day as well). That clearly was moti­vated either by my cos­play pics, the news that LEGO is doing a Mar­vel Super­heroes game or being unable to tol­er­ate the notion that Google isn’t evil just because they didn’t build apps for Win­dows Phone.

Per­haps Google does some sort of weekly spam account dele­tion? It’s weird.

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11 thoughts on “Sometimes I just can’t figure out why my followers number goes up or down”

  1. Jack Hardman
    January 9, 2013 at 11:53

    I seem to be really pop­u­lar among Russ­ian mail order brides

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  2. Catherine Maguire
    January 9, 2013 at 11:54

    They do appar­ently, I thought it was on Fridays…

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  3. Geof Fantastico
    January 9, 2013 at 11:54

    Don’t worry about the numbers.

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  4. Eoghann Irving
    January 9, 2013 at 11:57

    Have you read any of my posts +Geof Fan­tas­tico? Wor­ry­ing about num­bers is about half of my day. :D

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  5. Barbie Black
    January 9, 2013 at 11:59

    I have never looked to see who is fol­low­ing me.

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  6. Eoghann Irving
    January 9, 2013 at 12:04

    Oh I don’t look at who +Bar­bie Black. I just look at the num­bers. And prefer­ablly at the pat­terns of the numbers.

    Mostly there’s a pat­tern to it. A slow upward trend that will increase when I’m more active. A cir­cle share gives me a bump. One of my con­tro­ver­sial posts and the num­ber slides.

    That’s all under­stand­able and expected. It’s these weird ran­dom days that bug me. :D

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  7. Micha Fire
    January 9, 2013 at 12:08

    +Eoghann Irv­ing exactly my obser­va­tion too 

    I didn’t get to post much own stuff this year yet — but the cir­cle shares and “hang­overs” from Christ­mas and New year posts seem to become effec­tive just now .…

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  8. Leonard Sultana
    January 9, 2013 at 12:25

    I attended a one-on-one ses­sion with a social media con­sul­tant today (gods, even typ­ing that out sounds weird…); appar­ently, I’ve been doing most of my net­work­ing all wrong. I need to develop trust with my ‘aggre­gates’ indi­vid­u­ally, this way, they will encour­age oth­ers to fol­low me and, in doing so, build my net­work for me instead of me, chas­ing more followers.

    So, lunch tomor­row, then? My treat?

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  9. Eoghann Irving
    January 9, 2013 at 12:42

    I feel so used +Leonard Sul­tana . :D

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  10. Patricia Elizabeth
    January 9, 2013 at 12:47

    See, I don’t assume a loss means a dis­sat­is­fac­tion with my con­tent. I just fig­ure those are deleted accounts, due to indi­vid­ual deci­sions or G+ clean­ing up spammy accounts. Per­haps this is my brain being kind to me but I like my rose col­ored glasses so I’ll keep them on for a lit­tle while longer. :D

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  11. Eoghann Irving
    January 9, 2013 at 12:52

    Oh I can def­i­nitely spot instances where it’s what I’ve posted that’s trig­gered mass uncir­cling +Patri­cia Eliz­a­beth. But usu­ally I know that before I post.

    The ran­dom drops bug me because there isnt’ a pat­tern. If I knew that Google’s Spam­bot Account Dele­tion Tool V1.3 ran every Wednes­day Morn­ing and Fri­day After­noon.. I’d be happy again.

    Since it’s Google how­ever, they prob­a­bly run it on some weird sched­ule based off of Pi or something.

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