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Losing followers in Blogger?
Posted by Anok • 2/24/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: blogspot, followers
Did anyone else mysteriously lose followers on Blogspot, or did a bunch of people just decide they don't like me anymore? 
I lost, I think, about ten people. SO if you did follow my blog, and still want to, just check to make sure you still are. I'm off to check my own dashboard to see if I've lost blogs on my own list.
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Thank you for posting this discussion. I had 11 followers drop off just yesterday - I don't know who and I don't know why. I was thinking the same thing - some people just don't like me anymore.-
Makes you feel bad, doesn't it? It's probably another glitch - maybe Blogspot has been doing some upkeep and it's causing problems.
Boy I sure hope I get them back
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Yes, I did feel bad. Now, I've resolved it as a Blogger glitch.
Thanks again, Anok.
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Heehee
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Its not they don't like you, but sometimes people became your followers in order to have you... follow their blog back. Its good to lose them as they are not your "true" followers. I do follow some blogs and its okay if they don't follow my blog back. So do I, if someone follow my blog, I hope they do follow because they like my blog, not some sort of manual link exchange. In the end, I really appreciate all of my followers.-
I agree with you on that.
Like with people who comment, I want them to comment because of the post topic, not to link drop or just gain attention. I feel the same way about Followers. -
I agree with that - but it would seem that there are more than a few people losing large amounts of followers overnight. I could certainly see if one or two dropped off, but not ten or more overnight.
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Heh, it occurs to me I don't recall how many I HAD to know how many I lost, if any. Blogger Alzheimer's or something...
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The only reason I know how many I had is because I'm terribly insecure and watch to see if my cult - I mean followers grow everyday
Heh - I only remember a vague number that I had - closer to 48 or 49 or so last I knew. I could have lost more, but I don't know -
Hmm... I do notice few mysterious issues now, its maybe a manual mistakes/unintentionally done by the Google inc. certain errors already happens in this recent few weeks, eg: blog home turned to disappear/blank, followers avatar's slow loading, and remember of the past 30 minutes malware warning error on every Google Search? Such a mystery...
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I've lost followers too but don't take it personally.
I’m not trying to conquer the blogosphere through my blog.-
But I'm trying to take over the world, so..
No seriously, I'm just checking to see if it's a glitch, or if it's a serious drop off in readership.
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yes, for some reason over night it went from oer 60 to 48. weird. i heard the smae from other people too-
I've heard the same around the blogosphere myself - that's why I put it out there. Here. I mean...you know what I mean
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I have read that the old following system is being integrated with Google friend connect. It's on the Google common and resolved issues blog. Cheers.-
Oh...thanks clay! Actually, I think you're one of the followers that I lost. But I'm not sure
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Yes! 20+ disappeared! -
I think we should bombard the Blogspot admin, whatsay you?
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Any excuse for mayhem and malarkey
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Saweet! I've got your balaclava ready!
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Huzzah!
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I thought I was the only one with that problem. I was very sad yesterday. Yes we should write to admin and inform them of the emotional trauma they put us through.-
I know! They're making us feel all - unloved and stuff
I'm sure they're aware of it now. I hope, anyway.
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Same here! What is going on with Blogger I wonder?-
I think blogspot has a hitch in their giddyaup.
I always wanted to say that
Seriously, I think they've been having a lot of problems lately - posts disappearing, HTML not working, I've received a lot of Error message when backing up, importing/exporting images not displaying right etc...
It might just be growing pains. -
Hey Sweet Violet--nice to see you here! You should stick around. -
Thanks, MT...if the children stay in the playroom and the adults continue to run the place, I'll be here!
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I lost 2. I just thought I was boring.
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Nah - but I do need to go check and see if I'm still following you now that you mention it. I might be one that you lost!
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Thanks for the reassurance Anok!
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I just went an re-followed you.
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Its very weird, its says I was following you still, but I wasn't there. So I had to stop following you in order to follow you once more...
I'm exhausted
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Really? Were you still getting a feed Claire?
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I used Stillthinking as a guniea pig, because I knew I had recently followed them. Where you click 'follow this blog' it still said 'stop following this blog' even though I wasn't showing up.
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Hmmm.
Very mysterious....
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I noticed that as well. 3 followers just disappeared. Strange.-
There's a thief! A blog thief! Run!!!!
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I did too! Thanks to this thread there is now some explaination!-
Hopefully!
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I think I'm glad I don't use Blogger--there seems to be quite a few issues I've seen lately.
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Yeah, this week or so has been bad. I've never had so many problems with it before.
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Hopefully, this issue will be resolved. What would worry me is that your readers might think YOU deleted them--if they subscribe by RSS feed or even by email. That would suck. Because you don't know which people you've lost right?
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They must be "touching" something in Blogger (not just follower system). There is also a big issue on changing templates they haven't solved yet:
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Oh no! I hope it hasn't affected my RSS!
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I am down about 10 on one of my RSS feeds. That I know. But I'm hoping that's just the normal weird fluctuations.
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I wouldn't have a clue, honestly.
But I did just change from full feed to partial feed, so I may lose some readers over that! -
RSS was already fluctuating due to migrating the whatsits from feedburner to google, I can only assume that this is now affecting the 'followers' feature?
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Ugh!
Why blogger WHY?!?! -
I blame you! and your partial feeds
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Damn. Somehow I knew this would all be my fault! Anarchists always take the blame!
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You brokified it.
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Correctifying shall commence!
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i lost 2 followers, but i hope that i don't lose more-
Hopefully they will resolve this soon. I don't know if they can restore your followers, though.
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I's on blogger and lost two followers overnight, as well. I just thought it was just my being obnoxious or boring or something.-
You haven't been giving out big enough wine samples.
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Ohhh. (slaps forehead). *Wine*, not Welch's Grape Juice. Right, right, right.
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It's that pesky alcohol content that's tripping you up.
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OMG - I thought it was me or maybe I smelled or something. Perhaps my kitty cat thread turned off people!
As of this morning, I lost 2 followers! I only had 12 to start with so I am sad.-
Me too! I thought my deeply offensive Kopi Luwak thread had made many take a second hard look at me and see me for the little child that I am. (We made the front page's "Most Popular Discussions" with that one, by the way. I am so proud. )
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Congrat's!!
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And you, busylizzy, are also to be congratulated on your strange kitty cat thread making the front page! That alien kitten picture will haunt me forever. And the flashing cat gave me petit mal seizure. Hope you're happy.
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I think it's Blogger I was following a bunch of people and now it says I'm following nobody. No one is removing you blogger is removing you. Made me upset to find I was following no one. -
I found an answer!! from Blogspots "known issues":
knownissues.blogspot.com/search/label/outstanding
"We are in the process of integrating with Google Friend Connect, which may temporarily affect the Following feature for some users. Specifically, users who already use Following and Friend Connect may notice missing blogs in their profile, as well as a decrease in the number of public Followers on their blogs.
This is because we have set these users to "anonymous" to avoid linking the profiles of Blogger and Friend Connect users without their permission. They are still following privately and will able to make themselves public again.
After the official launch of the Friend Connect integration, we will communicate with the affected users and instruct them how to reset their relationship to public. To reiterate: the number of Followers has not changed, and we believe that the launch will improve the visibility of your blog and community. We will post more details on Blogger Buzz as the launch approaches."-
now thats kind of a relief ... thanks for the information
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Google--"All your followers are belong to us"
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LOL!
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[snort]
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okay - everyone's still following everyone. We just don't have any text or pix showing so.
It'll take me some time to recover from this. Think I'd raid the fridge and then take a nap to destress! -
I thought the few people who actually take the time to read through my blog just said screw you, it's nice to know that isn't what happened!-
Ha, that was my first reaction as well!
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So it looks like this discussion has helped prevent a widespread blogger self-esteem complex.
Thank goodness we all share this stuff with each other.-
Group Hug?
/vomits
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Defintely, otherwise I would still be feeling sorry for myself. lol
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It hasn't helped me! I feel bad now that I don't have any followers to lose and I was even toying with the idea of coming in here and saying I had lost over two hundred just so people don't know how rubbish my blog is.
Not that I want any followers. -
@crpitt No one wants to hug a person who just vomited.
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Crpitt - I'll hug you as soon as you change your clothes and mop up the floor. Don't forget to spray with Lysol!
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No vomity hugs!
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I lost 10 or 11 yesterday in about an hours time. My first reaction was to feel bad, but I couldn't imagine why that many people would all of a sudden disconnect all at once. I looked at Google Analytics and Feedburner, and the numbers are steadily rising, so I just shrugged it off, but they are still missing.
Another thing is, I have to wonder, if I have lost some of the people I follow. I love all the blogs I have in my favorites, both Blogger and Wordpress (they don't have to be just Blogger blogs), which you can view in the Google Reader. I follow so many, I would have a really hard time knowing, or finding them again, if I did.-
I took a quick peek at who I'm following, and I'll bet some of mine went missing, but it' shard to remember who!
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OK, Now my Blog Catalog widgets have disappeared from my blogspot blog. This is starting to get really annoying. Is anyone else having this problem?
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My BC widgets are showing OK. Sometimes they do have a hiccup, though.
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Are we talking about public followers or Feedburner?
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There are problems in both at the moment.
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I had 4 followers leave yesterday, I know I haven't posted as much recently but it seemed a bit abrupt. -
Who knows?
I can only follow a dozen or so blogs at a time, and I've got more than that so I'm considering dropping some, but I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings (I'm a tad codependent ya think) so I end up keeping them all and then I never look at any of them ...
In other words, don't take it personally. Maybe they're just cleaning up their dashboard????-
But...you said you'd follow me forever. I thought we had something special!
*sob*
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You really know how to teak a codependent, don't you
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Now I'm giving you my pathetic, sad puppy eyes. How can you resist that?
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I would suggest making backup copies of all of your blogspot hosted blogs. Just a thought. Cheers.
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Covered some interesting back up stuff here
www.blogcatalog.com/discuss/entry/what-is-the-best-way-to-backup-your-blog -
Yup, I was Johnny on the spot about that
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I lost two yesterday, which I figured must have had something to do with recent content...still I haven't posted anything THAT controversial....-
I can't imagine you posting anything controversial.
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I lost one the other day but it didn't bother me that much. Whoever it was didn't leave any comments or anything, so not a huge disappointment.-
One or two, OK but loads not OK! Seems like it's a glitch in the system, you may not have lost any after all.
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LOL! I lost four on Monday. I thought it was a referrendum on my content.
Anok, your thread has restored my confidence. I thank you. -
ya! i had 2, then one stopped following.. and now another is following..
yay! 2! go me -
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I wonder if they will come back. As in being restored.
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I just lost three followers overnight, and I don't have that many followers to speak of. There must be a problem with blogger, considering a lot of people experienced the same thing but on the other hand, it could be coincidence that followers suddenly decided to take a hike? I wonder...-
Maybe they've all been beamed up? Probed?
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@ThriftShopRomantic, I'm with you on this one. That appears to be the only solid explanation given so far.
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We'll see if the follower avatars return in a few days with half of their faces sunburnt (a la Close Encounters) and sporting alien baby bumps.
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In fact, I lost 10 for each of my blogs yesterday... Something must be happening!-
Yup - go up a few comments and I left a link to blogspots "known issues" plus what they wrote about it.
They should be back soon enough.
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I lost about 5 followers I think ...just today..something seems to be strange. All my images showed differently in blogger images too, I have a new bunch showing up!-
I think it's growing pains!
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Yeah, my unpolitically correct smoking wizard is getting loads of views, ROFL. I just wonder what people are googling in "images". I could go and take a look I s'pose in blog stat thingies, but that is just so sad!
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DO NOT PANIC! THE INTERNET IS JUST WRONG TODAY.
come back tomorrow.
mmkay?
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Yep - today we must all correct the internet!!
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Correctify silly
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Correctify the interwebs!
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does it now!
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Oh Noes, I'm off for dinner now - not time to correctify the interwebs!
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i've no follower. lol..
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Well get on it!
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It is an issue with Blogger integrating Google Friend Connect. knownissues.blogspot.com/search/label/outstanding
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Well, that's really good news. Thanks, Searching, for sharing that.
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Thanks for posting this, I thought two of my followers don't love me anymore! Also, no one commented on my blog yesterday because the word verification thing doesn't load. So yes, I felt kind of sad and kinda depressed LOL. -
Aww, yeah it looks like Blogger is just going through growing pains. They also addressed the missing posts problem, too. It'll be back to normal soon enough!
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The lost Followers will be taken back? lol
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Yeah it would seem that they aren't "lost" so much as in limbo. The staff states that they will send notifications to those who've following status has been disrupted to manage who they're following, and bring it back to "public" following so it shows up on your blog.
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The Lost Followers?
sounds like a new TV series - I just can't decide if it should be reality, sci-fi, or diy???
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No problem here. Still have my 3 followers! LOL
If it wasn't for lurkers with relationship problems, my blog would be dead.-
Oh! LOL. It's good that you haven't lost any readers, though.
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Guess what? I found out what the problem is. This was posted day before yesterday by the Blogger team.
Hey folks,
You may have noticed the number of your public Followers has decreased over the last few hours. We are in the process of integrating with Friend Connect.
There is small set of users that already use both Blogger Following and Friend Connect. To avoid linking the profiles of Blogger and Friend Connect users without their permission, we have set these users to "anonymous". They are still following privately and will able to make themselves public again.
With the official launch of the Friend Connect integration, we will communicate with the affected users to encourage them to reset their relationship to public. To reiterate, the number of Followers has not changed, and we believe that the launch will improve the visibility of your blog and
community.
We will post more details on Blogger Buzz and here as the launch approaches.
Thanks for your patience,
Gatsby
The Blogger Team
groups.google.com/group/blogger-helptroubleshoot/browse_thread/thread/b1c63...-
I'm good, but thanks for the update anyway, Margo.
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I know this is a different thing but I do a fair amount of visiting and I like to leave a nice comment if I can, but 5 out of 10 times I seem to get thwarted by Blogger, some glitch or another. -
I signed up as a follower on my own blog, just to see what it looked like. I was AMAZED to see that, on the dashboard, I could read the headers of posts that I had deleted!
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Eh? You mean like, you published a post, and then deleted it, but it still shows up in the feed?
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Yes. The header for my deleted posts is showing up in the feed. When you click through, it says "the page doesn't exist"... I haven't seen this bug mentioned anywhere, and I wonder whether Blogger even knows about it..
That's actually why I joined up on this site, to get to the bottom of it.
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They show up on your other feeds also.
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True.
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waaaa!!yah , i really wonder why,, i was shocked yesterday, good thing im not alone..-
Not alone at all. it should be fixed. Soon.
Or else I will kidnap the techies and feed them cold, lumpy borscht.
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A bunch of followers disappearing overnight. I smell a government cover-up.-
Yes! Conspiracy abounds!
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Its turns out Yahoo have now bought Google, so now things are changing hands again! shocking.
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Oh for Pete's sake!
Well, I'll just ride it all out - hopefully my ranking and followers and feeds and stuff won't be annihilated. -
I could of possibly perhaps maybe made that up, sort of.
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Yeah, Yahoo is a sad little puppy these days. Where on earth would they come up with the capital to buy Big Dog Google? Arf!
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Actually the owners of BC are buying google instead and the rest of the interwebz.
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YOU belong in the naughty corner with me tonight
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Huzzah!
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Yes, I am hip to the Interwebz lingo, too, yo! That's why I frequently say "cyber" this and "cyber' that, and slap a lot of "e-" in front of everything like "e-petunia gardening." I also talk ALOT about the "Information Super Highway."
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Yahoo bought Google months ago and because of this Google is experiencing some terrible terrible glitches on their system . Yahoo is not a very secured place lots of hacking and stuff. Yuck.
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Mine haven't popped back yet. I did receive an email that two new people, both on BC, joined my recipe blog but their avatars aren't showing up and the followers still says zippo.
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So has anyone received their new followers widgit? It looks weird
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I have, but I'm still down by 15 followers.
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Yeah, me too. I think they have to go trough and unclick "private" or something.
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I don't like the new widget either
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Blogger followers widget already changed to Google Friend Connect widget... and this widget is clearly not match (visually) with my footer layout now .
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Yeah I'm not thrilled with mine, either. I'm going to see if I can play with it.
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and the widget is fix, just can't be customized either..
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It's fixed? Grrrr....
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My widjit is back but I think my only follower is my mom.
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Anyone have any opinions on these new Friend Connect social tools? Will they work or are they just clutter? What do you think, could we be early adapters on a new killer app? Or is it malarkey?
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what is that widjit? and where (you have 4 blogs running)?
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LOl Shirely
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These damn Google kids what with all their new fangled social widgets. In my day, we had followers, and consarnit, we liked it!
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It's on this blog : myhabitathome.blogspot.com Honestly, I have no clue what friend connect is. I'm nutty and jump into things before I know what I'm doing. @Anok as if you didn't know that by now. It is through Google.
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its like all bloggers been forced to accept and use friend connect.
www.google.com/friendconnect/home/intro
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I am still missing about 20 But luckily I followed everyone publicly so I should show up on everyone I followed?
Holy crap face, its not kept who I was following.-
Grrr. I don't like change
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It has kept them after all, but set a lot to anon! for fooks sake.
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All but one of my blogs have switched over to the new widget.
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Did it keep all the ones that you are following too? Set to public?
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I lost 4 from 12 followers in one night, one of the 'lost follower' just said "Hello" and it seem he have no personal problem with me....... -
Previously, I found my followers widget format is suddenly (and permanently) changed into "Google Friend Connect" widget format. The question is I never change my gadget setting......
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Hey guys I got one of my lost back....not sure how it happened!
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Yep, apparently I was missing at least one who's returned, too. YAY!
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Found this weird unacceptable setting, majority of the blogs that I follow are... wrongly using... follow as "anonymous" setting.
need to manually change this "anonymous" to "public" again.
login and go to blogger dashboard> click the blue MANAGE button>.. there it is, "manage the blogs I am following"> click setting if you feel like to change something-
or is there anything else/more we can do?
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I manually changed a squillion back to public following, so will be annoyed if there was an easier way on doing it!
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*Pulls hair out* Stooopid Googleblogspotfacebook whatever whatsits crap!!!
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We don't have a new widget yet, just a sad line that says "followers" and can't be clicked on. And when (if?) it comes back, how do you concact your followers and tell them to come back if you no longer have their avatar?
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Hi Anok! -
Lost some followers. Also new widget only shows google bloggers
Avatars and links taken off other followers.
Only thing to do is remove widget from blog. I already did.
Let Blogger know that you are removing the widget and why, just maybe
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I lost 5 followers. I thought it was kinda of weird because I check out their pages almost as often as I check out mine.-
You are not losing your follower, but because they are now "automatically" following your blog as an "anonymous" (and maybe it is because of the Friend connect transition problem), so they did not appear/counted by your followers counter. Also they (your followers) maybe still did not notice about this at all.
I knew about this yesterday when I visited few blogs that I follow but my avatar was not there (in the followers widget), but my dashboard showed that I am following that blog. Thus I manually changed my anonymous to public back and my avatar was there (on the blogs that I follow) again and++ its challenge my anger (you know, the feelings... like when you are being messed up without warning/apologize).
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Yes, the missing followers appeared today...
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I don't like it too. It is sooo unprofessional looking lol. They could have tried to make it prettier!
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But now my followers are not showing up on my blog and I have noticed that on a few other blogs as well.
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I did phew so its not me!! -
I lost a few too, i wasn't sure if it was something I said.
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Yeah I lost 12 of them in one day I was so shocked I thought what did I do wrong! 12 in one day! That was bothersome!
Then someone told me it was a glitch! Phew and I didn't know this thread existed. -
Previously I found the followers widget changed into "Google Friend Connect" format. And I have checked to the setting of "Blog I Follow" in my blog dashboard. It was surprising me, some of my following options (to other blog)have changed from publicly to anonymously. Normally I always follow other blog in 'publicly' option (instead of anonymously). I think the only way is - if you want your lost follower avatars back - you must contact and ask them to change the setting of following options (into publicly) at their blog dashboard.
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Here's the latest update from Blogger Buzz - they have responded to some of our concerns ~
tins.rklau.com/2009/02/blogger-following-and-friend-connect.html-
Thanks Jan - that post explains a lot - and YES! They will be changing the widget so we can customize them a bit more.
Hooray!
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Glad to see I am not alone.
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I'd be happy if I got a comment every once in a while, let alone a follower -
I only had 6. I will check you out.
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Hey! My missing followers just popped back into existence! Has anyone else experienced the same thing? Are you up or down?
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I would be so happy but not yet. I am sure they wil get it all settled...?
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Did notice on your blog that I am still listed on "see more" page and that my avatar and link is not shown. Wonder why that is. I am a google blogger. I already removed my widget and I am not in hurry to re-install
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Nah, not yet, still missing!
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I'm still down 4, I think.
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you need to delete followers and then re add them...followers is different now!
check my blog out @
andelee.blogspot.com
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Your still not showing all. Also, many of your followers are shown on second page with only name and no link to their site or profile. This new google widget suks.
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I totally agree with Joe. I hate the new followers widget. What was wrong with the old one, anyway?-
I'm not crazy about it either, but it looks like it will be customizable in a bit.
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I hate it too, it looks so unprofessional.
And my lost followers? Forever lost!
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Blogger Sucks switch to WordPress.com-
really... please provide an argument for such statement!
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You're spamming with the link dropping, as well as reviving a zombie thread from the distant past.
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You need a new blog it looks awful.
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ngariman, ca or me? Or all three of us?
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I think she was talking to me
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just the spammer
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I have no followers
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@flamingpoodle
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Yes, a little.
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I only have 12 followers, although I wish I had more... as long as they stick with me.. I shall be fine and appreciative!
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