I have been on devto for a year and few months, my followers are barely up to 10, I've also written just one post. At midnight, I made a post about a cors issue I was facing and how it was resolved, nothing spectacular or serious.
I woke up this morning to make some edits to the post, I realized I gained over a 100 followers. I was excited and checked if my post got some traffic but nothing serious, less than 25 readers.
Don't get me wrong, I am happy with the followers but I'm just curious to know what happened. My followers are still rising. I checked last year's post stats and nothing much is going on too, just a surge in new followers.
Is it a spam stuff? I do not have a very active following on any social media platform also . Or did someone influential repost a link to my post? haha. Please if you read this and have any idea why, kindly leave a comment
Top comments (6)
oh..okay, thanks for this explanation
I am curious about this because last year I had fewer followers. Now I write articles, and my followers have increased, but my article stats remain the same.
yes, same thing here
When people join the site they are given a list of users that the algorithm thinks they'd like to follow. If you're on that list for some reason you'd see a steady flow of followers for a time.
seems like it, thanks for explaining