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Monday, 28 December 2015

Have you lost a few followers?

If so, read on.

In a nutshell, Blogger have (as we suspected) been tinkering with the Followers service.

Quote from a post on 'The Real Blogger Status' dated Monday December 21st:

During the past weekend, Blogger started the process of simplifying Following. This involves removing non Google accounts and profiles from Following.
As part of this plan, starting the week of January 11, we’ll remove the ability for people with Twitter, Yahoo, Orkut or other OpenId providers to sign in to Google Friend Connect and follow blogs. At the same time, we’ll remove non-Google Account profiles so you may see a decrease in your blog follower count.


This is the link to the blog, explaining in more detail

Hope this enlightens those of you who've been wondering!

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27 comments:

  1. Valerija28 December 2015 at 10:45

    Thank you for your explaining.
    Valerija xx

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  2. KandA28 December 2015 at 10:58

    Hi Di, Hope you had a fabulous (and pain free) christmas.

    I use Google to follow and a couple of weeks (or so) ago I noticed you had disappeared from my reading list and so I had to re-follow you. I've never touched Twitter or any of these others so it seems that Google is also removing some Google profile followers in their clean up xx

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  3. Kathyk28 December 2015 at 11:03

    Well, thanks for that, Di, hadn't spotted the explanation - lost 6 myself

    Happy New Year

    Kathyk

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  4. Aquarius28 December 2015 at 11:10

    I wonder why they feel they have to tinker with things - I always say 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it'!! Must check my reading list though. I also don't touch Twitter or Facebook etc myself - hopefully I won't lose too many followers.

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  5. Megan J28 December 2015 at 11:12

    Hi Di, thank you for the explanation, totally missed the post from Google. Have a great week...Megan

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  6. Sarn28 December 2015 at 11:24

    Oh they ARE a menace aren't they! Leave us alone! We're happy like we are!

    Thanks for the explanation.
    xxx

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  7. Liz28 December 2015 at 11:36

    Thanks for finding this out, Di. Like Sarn, I wish they'd leave us alone! xx

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  8. Di28 December 2015 at 12:24

    Maddening though it is girls - we're over a barrel here so do be careful about being too vocal directly to Blogger, and also to the link I added as he is deffo. affiliated in some way. Blogger can pull the plug on your Blogger blog at any time, without any explanation! I almost got into trouble when I took them on over the commenting and verification business a little while back - which interestingly was a forerunner of this latest malarky if you think about it. Hoping that putting this in a comment might not be picked up if they're really into trawling for criticism - if not, and I and the blog disappear in a poof of smoke, there's your answer. Snigger.

    Di xx

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  9. Viv28 December 2015 at 12:25

    Thank you Miss... can we give Mr Blogger detention??? He is a b****y nuisance!

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  10. Dr Sonia S V28 December 2015 at 13:05

    Thank you for this post Di...last week overnight I lost 22 followers and knew instinctively blogger platform was upto something!This week its a seesaw...in the morning I have 2 more followers, in the evening its one down...its crazy!Also they have been trying to push google plus to us in a big way and have even relegated the follow button to an obscure spot in blogger settings. I just hope they dont remove the google friend connect widget altogether!

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  11. KT Fit Kitty28 December 2015 at 15:55

    Thanks for the update. Looks like we are at Blogger's mercy.

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  12. Sarah28 December 2015 at 15:56

    You really should be renamed D.I. Di for all the sleuthing you do on our behalf!! Thank you for the link xx

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  13. Sally H28 December 2015 at 16:14

    I've lost 6. So annoying, as I was only one off 300! If only they observed the mantra "if it ain't broke, why fix it?" I have seriously thought of going to a different blog provider, but Blogger is definitely the most popular and easiest to use

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  14. Jane28 December 2015 at 16:51

    What a pain Di, I noticed I lost 2 and then gained 1 so I wasn't sure if a couple of peeps just got fed up with my ramblings...LOL. I do wish Blogger would stop fiddling...but thanks for finding this out! xx

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  15. Pat28 December 2015 at 17:13

    Thanks for letting us know about this Di, although up to now mine seems ok.

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  16. Helen28 December 2015 at 17:40

    Thanks for that. I was wondering what I'd done xx

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  17. Jackie T28 December 2015 at 19:57

    Thank you for that I did wonder what had happened. Hugs Jackie

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  18. Alice (scrAPpamondo)28 December 2015 at 22:10

    It seems that Blogger has been invaded by spiteful elves... :D

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  19. Kathleen28 December 2015 at 22:43

    Yep spotted this too, this morning, thanks to Shaz in Oz, well I have a Google Account just hope some of early, never heard from since, followers don't and I can get rid of them
    Love

    Kath x

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  20. Cornelia (fun stamping)29 December 2015 at 02:29

    Ahhh, now I know! I have been wondering.....but I got over feeling hurt if somebody leaves my blog - more important things to worry about...

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  21. LesleyG29 December 2015 at 06:16

    Thanks for the info Di xxx

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  22. brenda29 December 2015 at 07:06

    I think the tinkering started a couple of weeks ago, we most of at the challenges lost followers as did I, over 50 in one foul sweep.

    B x

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  23. mamapez529 December 2015 at 15:33

    Thanks for this Di. I have been away from my computer for a while and hadn't noticed. My craft blog says I have 77 followers but only shows eight photos? I will have to wait and see. Kate x

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  24. Linby30 December 2015 at 08:36

    Thanks for the info Di. For some reason I don't appear to have been affected - yet! But know on one of my DT blogs this happened.

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  25. Diane30 December 2015 at 10:52

    Yes, I lost several in one day.....I think they need to live by the old rule "If it ain't broken, don't fix it'...lol!!

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  26. Craftdee31 December 2015 at 06:38

    Thanks for the info Di, it's good to know I didn't do anything to upset the couple I lost. I was surprised it made me sad, I didn't think I took any notice of how many Followers I had. It just worries me that losing a few Followers may be the tip of a much more worrying iceberg that Blogger is working on, Donna

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  27. Shaz in Oz.CalligraphyCards31 December 2015 at 10:24

    Dear Di, mm I posted on this too before I went away. Glad you shared too more that know the better, I actaully had it from Blogger Buzz updates about a week before Christmas.
    Really cheeses you off eh?? but as I keep telling myself it is free service. Hugs and prayers, Shaz.x

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