Recently, several bloggers have noticed a sudden upswing in blog followers. I’ve also seen my followers steadily climb from maybe a few a day to dozens a day. Yet, here I was, still just sitting on my couch in my pajamas, watching Wheel of Fortune and eating my way through yet another pint of Rocky Road.
Why me? Why all the attention? My writing hasn’t improved. My blog is still the same as it ever was….Hmm…could it be the entire world has realized all at once that I am, like, totally awesomesauce and amazeballs?
Nah. Methinks big money is involved somehow, and I am here to say, I want a piece of that action.
While some of these new subscribers are in fact, real live breathing people who for some unknown reason like to read my words (and I thank you from the bottom of my jaded little heart), I’m thinking a great majority of them aren’t real. So I’ve devised a list of who I think these new followers are:
- Zombies
- Cats
- Danny Bonaduce
- Zombie cats
- spammers selling Viagra
- spammers selling diet pills
- Danny Bonaduce selling Viagra or diet pills
- spammers selling pills that make Danny Bonaduce disappear
- My mother
And just what do these subscribers do all day with their uncanny talent for mindlessly clicking on blog follow buttons? What is their reward? It’s certainly not for the pure pleasure of reading my posts. I think they get:
- Free beer
- minimum wage
- carpal tunnel syndrome
Again: I want in on that action.
And so concludes my in-depth blog analysis as to what in the world is going on at WordPress.
You’re not welcome. Because you didn’t say thank you. I don’t blame you.
P.S. Thanks for following my blog! Even if it was by accident! Or for your own devious plans to take over the blogosphere! I love fake validation. Makes me feel all warm and tingly inside. Seeing those numbers go up is the highlight of my day. Beats seeing my weight or my age increase.
She's A Maineiac 
I think it would be fun to having, Danny Bonnaduce follow my blog as long as he commented. I’d like that. 😉
I was just thinking the same thing, but you beat me to commenting on it.
🙂 Maybe we need to campaign and send Bonnaduce invites to our blogs. He must have a contact somewhere (between drunken stupors).
Me too, I guess. I mean, what else does he have to do with his time?
I’m with you. What the hell? You tell your mom to find something better to do than blog stalk you and I’ll do the same with mine.
Oh, so you’ve noticed this too? For a brief second I thought maybe my dream of becoming a famous blogger who rakes in millions was finally coming true. Silly me!
Yes, to all of that. I hadn’t considered the Danny Bonaduce angle, that’s completely viable. But have you considered the David Hasselhoff angle? Cause he’s in your Word Ads. And he’s in mine.
If there’s ever a mystery you’re trying to solve in life, always ALWAYS consider the Danny Bonaduce angle.
Is that really the Hoff? I am looking at a rather buff and shirtless young man in my ad and if that’s the Hoff I think he needs to share with the world his discovery of the fountain of youth.
It’s probably an ad for the first season of Baywatch.
Haha, that’s why my views are non existent in comparison to my followers! Cats will eventually take over all the interwebs
It’s the cats. It’s always the cats.
And Danny Bonaduce.
I’ve noticed that no matter the number of followers, the hits on my posts stay exactly the same, since I started blogging almost 3 years ago. So a whole hell of a lot of so-called ‘humans’ are not reading my stuff. Because cats can’t read. Neither can Danny Bonaduce.
Well good, it’s not just me. Something indeed is up. I’ve gotten more follows in the past week than I have in many months past. And I’m not doing anything different. If anything, I’m probably posting less. Unless it’s die-hard Disney lovers or something.
Zombies. I’m going with zombies. Way to scooby it out, Darlarific.
Have you ever considered it’s Justin Bieber’s Bieberiffic Bielebers?
Well I HADN’T . . . until now.
Wait, are you saying Beliebers are actually Zombies? Oh man, it all makes sense now.
My mind is now officially blown. Explains Everything.
I too have had a surge and its why I wrote the post, I Will Follow You. There is a new feature on the side of the reader below topics called, “YOU MAY LIKE,” and some of us are included. It has been a huge boost for me since I am not a recommended blogger. All of a sudden I jumped to 8-20 new subscribers a day! I cannot find any post from WordPress about it, but feel very grateful to be on the loop. 🙂
I think most of them are new bloggers and are just getting their feet wet.
Zombie attack averted!!!!!
Susie, Val of Arty Old Bird and Charles of Mostly Bright Ideas have both just blogged about this and I remember in one of them, in the comments is a link to a thread on one of the WP support boards about this sudden influx of spam followers. (that probably didn’t help you at all, but I can’t remember where the link is…)
My guess is there’s nothing they can do about it. Our numbers will just inflate and hey, worse things can happen I guess. I’ll pretend all these people like my blog so I can sleep better at night.
Many of them are ligit bloggers. Did you check out the “you may like” in the reader? I have gotten quite a few recently that have left comments. It is a relatively new feature. That is what I am not seeing announced by WordPress.
Yup, you’re right. I did notice the little sidebar in our readers “you may like” it’s a great new feature, I agree. That would explain some of the increase in everyone’s followers.
Hmm, I’ve noticed that too. You know, it could just be government drones spying on us to make sure we don’t go commie and adding us to their list just in case so that they can swoop in with their blog evidence and put us in Guantanamo. I know it’s not my Mom. That would just be crazy-talk.
You’re absolutely right. It’s not my mom either. She is still trying to figure out how to turn her microwave on with her TV remote.
you can turn a microwave on with a TV remote!?
I don’t have any surge in followers, but that may be because I suck at words and stuff. Do these zombies and Bonaduces only like women? I may change my gravatar picture to a shot of my lovely wife and see if I suddenly get this warm tingly surge you speak of. If I do, shame on zombies and Bonaduces for being sexist!
Oh, just keep on blogging and they will come. Oh, yes, the Danny Bonaduces and cats of this world will take over your blog one day, just you wait.
I too, recently wrote a “welcome” post for the throngs of bot spam scam scum, I mean, brilliant new bloggers with discriminating taste. Wait, are they following every single blog on WP? I’m not special after all. Damn! 🙂
I would still like to think they have discriminating tastes. Cats are picky.
True true. I wonder, is my blog the chopped liver? Too funny. The night before the onslaught over in the low rent district where my blog is located, I attended a cyber crimes class. VERY interesting. Cat burglars or cyber kitties – same same. HA!
I would probably be too scared to attend a cyber crimes class. I’d want to close down my blog. But I’ve got to keep the zombie cat masses happy so……
I’d love a zombie cat, she can find her own food then and stop bugging me for some
But then she’d eat your face while you sleep, Joe. That wouldn’t be good. (or does she already do that when you don’t wake up in time to feed her?)
She claws my face now, it’s only a matter of time I guess
My cats used to sit on my face and purr like a train to wake me up. One used to dig his claws into my ear if I was a few minutes late waking up.
Well wait a sec, where are my zombie pill pushers? Ugh, they always exclude me. Sigh…
Well, have no fear, they’ll find you very soon, Lily. Then you too can blog and still be as broke as I am.
So annoying! I’m so glad you wrote about this. I’m bummed about the way it’s inflating my numbers, as I need to accurately report my metrics to some of the brands with whom I have developed relationships. {doesn’t that sound fancy?} I’m getting a lot of porny SPAM and crap in Spanish. Not that Spanish is crap, just the stuff these SPAMbots are associated with.
I used to click on each and every new follower, check out their blog, maybe get to know them a bit.
And now? Ha! Either they don’t have a blog, or they do but it’s either a real estate site or they’re trying to sell curtains. It’s pretty disheartening.
I know a fraction of them are actually real people who read my stuff and might not have a blog. So I will keep on blogging for them. Certainly not for Danny Bonaduce.
i’ve had a bit of a surge as well… and i looked at a few and they no speakee the english… not sure what’s going on here. unless my amazingness goes beyond translation. and btw – rocky road is my favorite flava!!
I find it amazing that people that can only read things in Swahili can read my blog.
Hmmm, glad to hear this is going on elsewhere… I think! This, in my opinion is pretty frickin’ creepy, and I did my share of complaining on the dozens of forum posts that popped up about this issue a week or so ago when it all went down. WP does seem to be aware of this although I’m not sure they consider it much of an issue, yet. How they cannot consider it an issue is beyond me, but maybe they are just playing it cool while their whole system gets hacked to shit by spammers. Hey look at that! While typing this reply I have received another follower, I looked and I don’t know what their site is about as it’s in a language that I don’t recognize… in fact I don’t even recognize the alphabet they are using… but I guess they must be interested in reading about my goats.
I know, my head was getting pretty damn big about all these new followers, then reality set in and I realize I’m nothin’ special. Sigh. Such a shot to the ol’ ego, huh?
I suppose that the Internet in general is made up of 50% people that are genuine and 49% people that have hidden agendas. And 1 % zombie cats.
I just got a notification of a new blog follower:
HelpforIBSSuffurers.
Every post about IBS. And suffering with it.
I only wish I were kidding.
I’ve seen the IBS people too, and the credit card people and lots from foreign nations that I probably have never heard of! All kidding aside, I’m kind of PO’d about this whole thing… if you can’t tell! I don’t believe that there’s nothing the WP Gods can do about this. In fact I’d venture to say something they changed caused this because it only just started a few weeks back. Before that you’d get new subscribers mostly when you wrote a good post and tagged it well, then a few here and there that tripped over you via your comments on other sites. But this is nuts! In the forums, they are saying just “report it as SPAM”. Seriously, I have to figure out if 5 or 10 or 20 new subscribers every day is SPAM?!?!? I’d like to see a simple “block” function, or “approve follower” function. You would still have to check them out, but it would make this all go away.
That’s the thing, it seems to have started around the same time a few weeks ago. I guess with all the new followers from the new WP reader feature “You May Like…” we’ll inevitably get spam followers increasing too.
But I hear you, Steve. I’m all for having an inflated ego, but to find out my inflated ego is inflated? Defeats the purpose.
Damn you, Darla!! Because of YOU, the zombie Danny cats have found me as well!
I JUST got a follow from IBShealthteam.
Crap, I think I’ve been infected. Save yourself. I’m suddenly craving…..
SPAMMMMMMMM…….
I’m sorry. Blame me, it’s okay. Spam is good on white bread with extra mayo.
Thank you for the post. I am one of your new followers, I am not a zombie or anything else. I live in Maine so your title made me feel like I should follow you, since I am one too! 🙂 I want some spam followers on my blog. I take them all, the numbers make me feel good.
Well, thank you, an actual human being from Maine, for following!
And I know, numbers DO make me feel good too. I feel so ashamed. But they make me feel bad as well. Still only 71 facebook followers. Once I can hit 80, my life goal will have been met and I can die happy.
I will follow your FB page, I am at 61 followers without asking any of my “friends” to follow me. I will get you to 72, 100 is right around the corner. Then you should get a t-shirt that you can wear around. That is my goal!! I will search for your FB page now. 🙂
Yay! wahoo! A new FB follower! I’ve been waiting for this day!
See? numbers don’t mean a thing to me, nope.
I have also experienced an increase in the number of followers to my blog in the last 2 weeks. It poses an interesting dilemma: If it was possible to ‘unsubscribe’ a Follower, should we?
It is my practice to take a look at the blog of a follower and some look to be potentially phony sites. However, it is possible that they are following from a commercial blog, rather than a personal one.
Time will tell and in the meantime the Zombie/Undead Apocalypse will have to wait.
You know, that is a very good point. These people might actually be following and they happen to be logged in as their own business website/blog.
But, this spam following thing explains something I’ve always wondered: why the actual hits on my blog posts hasn’t increased hardly at all. I may have thousands of followers, but the post is only read by a few hundred total.
Which brings me back to my theory that cats can’t read.
Good theory, they must be attracted to the photos.
I do try to break up all the words with images. Keep those zombie cats transfixed.
Boom. I just liked your Facebook page. I love the numbers going up, so I have to help a fellow blogger out. 😀
Apparently the zombie cats haven’t found my blog yet. How should I prepare myself?
Another FB follower? I’m thrilled, thanks! I have to confess this post was just an elaborate ruse to get people to click my FB like page.
Well, it worked. 😉 Tricking us into liking you one funny zombie cat post at a time.
mwa ha ha! The key to blogging.
Oh, and to prepare yourself for zombie cats following your blog, just keep on posting, they love that.
Glad to know it’s not just me. But I guess now everyone knows everyone’s inflated numbers secret. Oh well. We all thought we were special.
I know. How can I go on knowing my inflated ego is itself inflated? It just doesn’t seem right. Guess I’ll have to blog now only because I actually love doing it. Sigh.
What’s all this kerfuffle about? So what if a few (dozen) followers aren’t actually people? This is 2013. Anything goes! They may have more artificial intelligence than we do.
I’m thinking of hiring a zombie cat or Danny Bonaduce to blog for me now. It would free up so much time.
And you could probably pay them both in kitty treats! 😉
What about us zombie dogs? Huh?
Zombie dogs are too busy walking in circles before they lay down for a nap.
Wait a minute. I haven’t gotten ANY new followers in weeks. Hello? Is this thing on?
Can you ask Danny B. to stop by?
I will be happy to ask Danny B. But you’ll be sorry, Jackie.
Clearly, the zombie cats haven’t made it down the list of bloggers whose names start with J yet. But they will, make no mistake.
Hey! What’s with the huge font at the top of your page? Or have I been checking WP blogs on my phone for too long? I want in on that free beer and minimum wage. Especially that money. How cool is it that not only your mother follows your blog, but Danny B. and zombie cats do too. Wow. I am officially jealous.
What huge font at the top of the page? I have no idea what you’re talking about? Maybe you should get your eyes checked?
I’m teasin’. I actually had my eyes checked and it seems my vision is fading fast so I switched to a new wordpress theme with super huge font to help.
I read many blogs about this topic lately. It hasn’t happened to me. But then I read that it only happens to bloggers that have their own page (not the .wordpress.com page). So if you pay for the privilege, you get a lot of extra (zombie) followers?
Anyway, it’s an interesting development, I would love to get a piece of the action as well 😉
Hmm….could be, could be. I do own my own domain now. Still, if I had known buying my own site would encourage Danny Bonaduce’s zombie cats to follow, I never would have done it.
If they want to follow, and don’t break anything, then hey, what’s the harm, right? But when they start breaking stuff…
Exactly. The minute these zombie cats and/or Danny Bonaduce tries to eat my face, I’m shutting this blog down.
I’ve been wondering about this. Same thing happening over at my blog. I was like, “I haven’t even been writing lately. How are people following me?” Not people–it’s that damn Danny Bonaduce.
What’s even stranger, the less I write, the more followers. The less I post, the more followers. Either people just want me to shut up more or it’s Danny Bonaduce’s zombie cat’s evil plan to take over my blog.
Golden World Renowned Hotel just followed my blog. I wonder if that’s where Danny’s zombie cat is staying.
Haha! I am snorting so hard from laughing, I just spilled some of my white wine down my shirt. Thanks, Rachey-Poo. Thanks. (by the way, I thought it was so cute you called your husband Mr. Rache in your last post!)
Guess who gave him that moniker? Our favorite nicknamer: Jules.
I just checked my stats and I just got a follow from:
SexyLingerieSuppliers
Now I know for a fact Danny Bonaduce is behind this.
So glad you brought this up—I’ve been perplexed about it and knew something was amiss because so many of my new random followers don’t have a blog or are a biz. Sigh. I thought I was crazy! But hey, I actually came across yours from the “recommended” list … so that’s a win for you! 😉
I would be thrilled if my Mom would read one of my blogs, let alone follow or stalk me. Some of ya are really lucky out there. I got all the scammers and a few readers. Sigh. It’s gonna be okay. I know all you all will follow me, right? Lol
My own husband doesn’t read my blog. But it warms my heart to know so many other people aren’t either.
Lol, I double mine on my Facebook usually and he actually gives me ideas. My Mom won’t even look at a computer. Haha.
Oh, no! You’re not crazy! You’re just a wordpress blogger. I know — it’s hard to distinguish the two sometimes.
But thank you for actually being a human being who’s not trying to sell me curtains or real estate in Ecuador.
Oh, I’m selling you both of those. I just have a blog, too. 😉
A-ha! You’re sneaky.
Well, I’ve already popped over to check it out and so far, so good. You seem like a real person! And you have a good blog! Yeah!
Ahh, thank you! Happy you checked it out 🙂
I’ll be back too, as soon as I finish counting all my new spam followers.
Zombies! It’s always zombies. They get in everywhere. And zombie cats, too? Sheesh… I knew there had to be a logical answer, and this is it…
Seriously, I think we should all get together and send links to all our fake follower posts to WordPress.com staff – maybe after the deluge, they’ll get their act together and suss this out.
By the way, the day I did my post, I went to my privacy settings and stopped search engines being allowed to index my blog. Since then I’ve had no spam follows and only one slightly dodgy Like (the Like button is gone but I can still see Like notifications – they can still do it via the Reader but can’t do it via my blog)
Maybe try changing your privacy settings for a while and see if it has any effect? You can always put them back again. It’s a total bummer not seeing the correct stats. That said, the onsite stats counter is not the only one – you can use an external one here. I do that too.
Thanks for the tips, Val. I didn’t realize I could stop search engines in my privacy settings. Will have to check that out later.
I am proud to be a real human follower of your blog who actually reads your entries and enjoys them! I am somewhat new to blogging and was wondering how to get rid of those “fake” followers that want me to make as much money as they are making, blogging!
Thanks so much for reading/following. Another real person! and please, feel free to tell me how I can make money blogging as I must be doing something wrong.
I will be sure to pass on any tips the fake followers give me!
Hello old friend. I know I haven’t been around for a while – I can’t keep up with the demands of blogging and working full-time.
The bad guys are always devising new ways to be bad. I’m sure WP is aware of what’s going on, and hopefully will think up a way to stop it and soon because some of my new follows have very disturbing gravatars. Yikes.
Hey Rosie! I hear you on not having time. If only I could make loads of money blogging….
And about the disturbing gravatars — yikes is right. I used to get email notifications of any new followers but I’m turning that off now as some of the titles of the so-called ‘blogs’ are pretty scary.
I was going to write about this time because it’s been pretty freaky. I write less and less and get more and more followers…maybe they’re trying to tell me something.
It appears a spammer wrote my first sentence since it doesn’t make a lick of sense. I was trying to say “i was going to write about this because it’s been pretty freaky.” How “time” got in there is a mystery.
Me too. I think they’re trying to tell me: Just shut up and buy Viagra.
I thought it had something to do with that “Recommended Blogs” feature on the left side of the page. WordPress seems to be pushing certain blogs, and strongly suggesting that I follow them. I’m a rebel, though, so I don’t cave to their peer pressure… 🙂
I’m with you, Austin. I try to resist on facebook and twitter too.
Although, like you, I’m befuddled as to how I have almost 1400 followers, but when I post something new, it maybe gets 40 views on the first day. Shouldn’t it get 1400 views? It’s baffling…
Exactly! You’d think I’d be getting thousands of hits on a post. Ha! I still get the same exact number of hits I got a year ago when I only had 300 followers. This was a mystery to me until I realized my followers are the Undead.
Well, it is Maine,so that makes sense for our blogs…
It AMAZES me that the same website who made my entire blog disappear for the better part of a day because I inadvertantly used the name of a banned website in a photo credit, would let THOUSANDS of scammers create blogs AMD then blanket follow legitimate writers. A few months ago, my number of followers was really important to me, now the number is skewed due to legions of Texas real estate agents and British replacement window dealers!! As the kids like to say; WTF WordPress?!
I know. My blog used to be great at screening spam comments. But it seems suddenly those crafty spammers have figured out a way around the system. I’d like to pretend my follower number is legit. But I’d guess about 1 in 10 follows are fake.
I have no idea what you’re talking about. My latest follower, ibshealthteam, and I are on a first-name basis. In fact, I’m on a first-name basis with the entire IBS health team, and I’ve learned a lot. Did you know Tums are made of rice cakes and elf tears?
ibshealthteam is following you too?! I thought it was just me! My wife has a theory about IBS; whenever she sees a beautiful, thin woman, my wife feels the need to point out that she probably has IBS.
I’m also being followed by a Spanish speaking gentleman who looks to be selling CD’s at bargain prices, but it’s hard to tell if they’re really bargains though, since his prices are listed in Euros or drachmas or something.
I don’t know what he sees in my writing, but he obviously has questionable taste.
And here I was thinking I was something special with my DannyBonaduceIBSCures follow.
Rice cakes cure most anything, JD. Can’t argue with them there.
OMG DP, I told my manager on Monday (we had lunch together) about your mom eating hamburgers on rice cakes. Her face was PRICELESS. (Similar to my reaction: “How does that even WORK?” I was like, “And how does that idea even OCCUR to a person?”)
Tell her that my mom is an enigma, wrapped up in a mystery and served on toasted rice cakes.
(she actually toasts them. I know!)
I once watched her eat her rice cake burger and it was amazing to see her bite into it and watch the huge chunks of rice cake disintegrate and fall onto her plate. It’s like: just eat the burger plain, Mom!
And she toasts them, that’s right! ha ha ha ha EVEN if you tried to do some kind of burger ‘dip’ for the rice cakes -EVEN then- it STILL wouldn’t work.
Apparently, the trick is to toast them until they smoke up the joint enough for the smoke alarm to go off so she can hit it with her broom.
NOW I understand the IBS stuff over on my blog. Damn this job for (not enough) pay that keeps me from endlessly commenting and reading comments on WordPress, which is where I truly belong!
“Tell her that my mom is an enigma, wrapped up in a mystery and served on toasted rice cakes.” That’s just be-yoo-tiful Darla. Magic, magic words.
I’m nothing if not magical with my words and toasted rice cakes, Pego.
Zombie stalkers … hmmm! That might explain the spike I saw one day and I found no discernible reason why they were visiting my blog. I thought WP didn’t allow blogs that sold things, yet a few of my most recent admirers (?) clearly have a site with a mission. Like you, Darla, I’m looking for a way to cash in. 😆
What’s the point of blogging if we can’t cash in? Isn’t that what everybody wants? OK, maybe the connections we make with real people around the world matter too….
Your “follow” button says “it’s not so hard”. Maybe you just made it TOO easy to follow you.
But I don’t understand why those spam followers are even a problem – we don’t have to buy stuff from them or follow them back, and they don’t leave spam comments. So what if they don’t read our posts? Plenty of legit followers don’t, too.
…Or maybe I’m just not seeing the full scope of the problem, since my blog doesn’t show in the global tag reader, and most spammers can’t find me…
I have a yahoo email set up just for this blog and I’ve noticed a huge increase in spam email in there. I just delete of course, but I wonder if they really think following me and sending me endless messages about Lasik surgery or mortgage refinance is going to convince me to buy anything.
I think this is a yahoo problem: I have a gmail account, a yahoo account, and another lesser known type, and yahoo account is always the one flooded with spam.
Cool. I’ll blame yahoo. Works for me!
yeah, I should rewrite the follow button: Don’t Click This If You’re Selling Viagra.
And exactly, plenty of real people don’t read my stuff either.
What? Wait. You mean fashiondivadesign may not be reading me for all my fabulous wardrobe tips? And seasonalholidays2020 might not be real? I did see that solutiibusiness didn’t exist, but I thought he, like, went on vacation and turned off his blog or something.
Seriously, I would love to have the power to unsubscribe someone. Super powers on the Marvel Universe scale are a hobby of mine.
Agreed, I’d love the power to unsubscribe someone. I can’t see that ever happening so I’ll have to suck it up and let DiscountSexyLingerie keep following me and sending me emails.
About a year ago I awoke to discover about a 100 new followers. I’m not when they actually appeared as I wasn’t watching the numbers. And then about three months later, without hearing from any of them, they disappeared. Go figure??
I have the same problem from time to time, Renee. I think in that case there can only be one reason: they’re ghosts.
I’m totally not selling curtains, I swear 😉
Yay! Another Non-UnDead person is following! Thank you.
Yeah, I’ve been the least active blogger on WP for the last 5 months and it has had the opposite effect of what I would have imagined. I was going to post an apology for not posting often but, why should I? Clearly my lack of words is quite the come-on for all these new subscribers. Perhaps I’ll switch it up and test it – I’ll post one word, just one, for my next post. Now I’ve got to figure out what word that will be…
I thought I was the lazierst blogger, posting every couple of months or when the gull moon falls on a third Wednesday. Let me know what your one word is, so I can use it too, and don’t have to think of another blog post in two months.
Will do, Barb. It may take me a few weeks, though.
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?
I would be alllllllll over that, Jean. One word? But yeah, which one? the possibilities are endless.
I was going to chime in about “Yeah, I know just what you mean” until I saw the “dozens per day.” Dozens? Dozens? You a SUPAH-STAR, Darlotta! Don’t worry about “why”, just enjoy the fame.
And don’t buy any Viagra or knock-off designer bags from your new readers.
Well, when I said ‘dozens’ I really meant to say a dozen and a few here and there…they’re mostly IBS Sufferers though so don’t get too excited.
Darla, here’s the silver lining for me. On my last go-round of visiting my followers, I’m pretty sure most of them had died or left the planet, so I think your zombie theory holds. I’m just glad to have a new slew of undead “ughing” at my words.
(And thanks for posting about this. i wondered what on earth was happening.)
That is the great thing about blogging, Barb — there’s always more undead coming to take place of the dead bloggers. An endless stream of followers who never read our words! What could be better?
I spoke to Danny about this and he is going to call off the troops–so the problem is solved. Had to have him over for pizza and beer to convince him though.
I’ll have to entice him to stop over my place too with some gin in a coffee mug. I’m sure he’ll take me up on the offer, what else is he doing lately?
I asked him about that and he will be over at 11 this morning
Damn! He drinks early! (nor surprising)
He said that it is 5 o’clock somewhere
I think they want a bite of Rocky Road, simple as that.
I’d offer them some, but I ate the entire pint in one sitting.
Maybe it’s the David Haselhof video/ad at the bottom of your page?
Good point. I blame The Hoff for pretty much everything so why not this?
See you are a star, we all knew it now the world is catching on!
yes! That’s GOT to be the reason, Val!
When I came back to the blogs I noticed a HUGE increase in the number of followers I had. I thought, WTF? How did this happen when I wasn’t even here?? Surely I don’t have THAT kind of game, do I??
Then I saw the names of the people following and thought, “Wow, WordPress must have really gotten nailed with spammers.” Then I was bummed.
But you DO have that kind of game! I can’t wait until I take this summer off from blogging to come back and see penis enhancement spammers have been guest posting for me.
I am glad I found your blog and am going to follow because… I enjoy reading it, and well your mention beer 🙂
Thanks for following and for liking beer!
Noooooooooooo!!! This was one of the reasons I left Blogger and I remember it being very annoying when I had set myself a milestone of having my newly created WordPress stats take over my abandoned blogger stats. Damn zombies.
It is a bummer. Now I’m keeping stats on the number of new followers I get that mention the words: penis/IBS/sexy/lasik surgery.
Good plan though this will exclude most of the British entertainment personalities from the 60’s and 70’s.
I am so glad to hear it isn’t just me! Wait, okay…I’m sort of disappointed to know it isn’t just me.
I’m also a mix of conflicting emotions about this revelation. Such is the blogging life….
I got a new subscriber today who had actual blog posts, but they’re all written in weird symbols, including long strings of upside-down question marks. Is that a real language? I don’t think that’s a real language.
I think that this is further proof that aliens live among us. At least they have excellent taste in blogs.
I just followed your blog.
I’ve been away like two seconds (okay, maybe it’s been more like a few months) and I’m now to believe that only 20 of my 90 followers a legit? Ah man. I thought the world was finally coming around to digging in the soil with me and getting dangerously close to spiders with a camera lens. I’m crushed.
Well in your case, you really can’t rule out that some of your followers are mutant spiders.
Hi Maineiac, I am not undead. I am alive. Saw your post through Renee, and decided to follow your post. Its great.
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