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   fastfretaposted 14 years ago

   Just curious, has anyone noticed their followers constantly fluctuating. I have remained in the 880-883 range despite the fact I'm constantly receiving new followers. I would love to get to 1000 followers before the year is over, but at this rate I never will. I know it doesn't mean very much, but 1000 seems like a nice round number.

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      earnestshubposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Yes mine are not just fluctuating, they are dropping while new followers are signing on.
      I have a theory, as I don't usually lose followers I believe people are leaving hubpages in numbers I haven't seen before because of the results on their hubs from the Google slap. I hope I'm wrong. It must be hell at HP headquarters!

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         Marisa Wrightposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         I have another theory.  I'm sure a lot of my followers are people who were spamming HubPages and their following habits were part of that - with HubPages tightening up, they're getting banned.

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         Joy56posted 14 years agoin reply to this

         you believe in hell then earnesthub.....

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      kimberlyslyricsposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      ya hon, mine has been really weird also
      
      be a good thing to bet on [not promoting gambling of course]

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   Ms Chievousposted 14 years ago

   I have lost four or five followers in the last couple of days..Wonder if people are leaving..?

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   fastfretaposted 14 years ago

   I agree with all the theories, facts and queries. Because I've noticed broken links on my hubs, and when I check out why, I find the hub has been deleted. Earnest, I noticed the same thing with mine, so as you said not fluctuating, just dropping. I hope it can stabilize soon.

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      kallini2010posted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Are those 800 followers are your actual readers?  Or just imaginary friends?  Because mine are the latter.  They are just a statistics but they don't read.  Sadly, but true.  My number is not that high, though, only 52 followers, out of which 2 are readers....

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   relacheposted 14 years ago

   It's going to most likely be a mix of departures and low-quality/spam accounts being shut down by admin.

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      earnestshubposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      That sounds about right to me relache.

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         Joy56posted 14 years agoin reply to this

         may we stay on hub pages forever, i love to get my aggression out on you sometimes......... Did you hear my dad just died.

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            Karandaposted 14 years agoin reply to this

            So sorry for your loss.

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            earnestshubposted 14 years agoin reply to this

            Oh Joy I did not know. Are you OK? My sincere condolences. My heart goes out to you in this toughest of times. Please feel free to emote, I will support you too.

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      darksideposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      I concur.

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         Joy56posted 14 years agoin reply to this

         what does concur mean...........

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            Mark Knowlesposted 14 years agoin reply to this

            Agree.

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               Joy56posted 14 years agoin reply to this

               hi Mark i know what agree means, but what do you agree about,

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                  lyndreposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                  

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                  Mark Knowlesposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                  Concur means agree........................

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                     Joy56posted 14 years agoin reply to this

                     so what are we agreeing on.

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                        Mark Knowlesposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                        I am not agreeing on anything. You asked what concur meant and I told you - it means "agree."
                        
                        Crikey.

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                           Joy56posted 14 years agoin reply to this

                           there are some really dumb people on here, lets cleanse the site.

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                              Mark Knowlesposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                              Well - I can see you are having a bad day. Sorry your dad just died - so feel free to give me as much of a hard time as you want. I am a big boy and make a good punchbag.

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            darksideposted 14 years agoin reply to this

            I agree with Relache.

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      wychicposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      I kind of figured that's what was going on too -- whenever I get new followers I like to look at their recent activity to see where they might have found me, and at least half of them have shown nothing in their recent activity except following tons of people. I'm sure these types of accounts are proving a bit short-lived these days . As long as people who are actually reading and enjoying my hubs stick around, life is good.

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   melbelposted 14 years ago

   The number of people following me has always gone a little down and then more up, then a little down, more up.
   
   However, it's not the number of followers that I care about, it's the amount of traffic. While having followers CAN help, I personally only regularly check out content of a few people I am following.
   
   That said, the BEST way to get followers is to create great content -- apparently you have to already have so many followers, so you know the next thing to do: create more content!
   
   Best of luck in your goal!
   
   As for why followers are disappearing, Relache is right on! HubPages has been cleaning house lately getting rid of a TON of spam hubbers. I, personally, have reported a few people as possible spammers -- sometimes I'll report my own followers if they deem as such.
   
   Spammers hurt our community more than they help my follow list. As for right now, your follower list may continue to drop, but don't be alarmed -- if your followers followed you because they enjoyed your content (which is WHY people should follow in the first place) then you will keep most of your followers.

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      CASE1WORKERposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      totally agree- i have lost followers but to be honest there are one or two who follow me and when i checked had not written- so maybe they were setting up a spam attack that was foiled?

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         Joy56posted 14 years agoin reply to this

         I will always be your follower.  Hub pages seems to be experiencing a kind of cleansing, it can on ly be a good thing,,,,,,, I think.....

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   CASE1WORKERposted 14 years ago

   thanks for those kind words- yes it is a cleansing and not before time, but I think it will have to go very deep

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      Joy56posted 14 years agoin reply to this

      hope we are all still around to chat.........  love your knitting hub.

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   PaulGoodman67posted 14 years ago

   I went hubhopping and it was an education.  So many new sites that were just adverts for products and services.  There has to be a purge on here, if HP is to be taken seriously as an informative site.  (ps My followers number seems to be stuck on 79!)

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      earnestshubposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Well it's 80 now. Welcome to hubpages. You have some interesting hubs, so I followed you so that I can be reminded to come back and do some reading.

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   Lisa HWposted 14 years ago

   With everything that's been going on, and may go on, I've wondered if one day I'll just notice that I have - like - 4 followers:  my three kids and my sister.  (Oh, wait...  They aren't Hubbers.  Oh well...  )

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   fastfretaposted 14 years ago

   Thank you all, now I don't feel so all alone.

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