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Weird Follower Spike on Dev.to

Shai Almog on May 12, 2023

Yesterday I got an email from dev.to covering a significant spike in my followers: I typically get a few subscribers every day but this is a big...
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Ben Halpern

We have adjusted the logic in onboarding so that more people get followed in that process based on the tags the member has followed. 🙂

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Jakob Christensen

I checked a number of my new followers and unfortunately most of them look like spam accounts 😬

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Jose Germán Martínez

I don´t know if the accounts are spams but today my followers increase and a lot of them join today in the plataform
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Bradston Henry

Thanks for explaining that @ben! I got a spike in followers too and I wasn't sure exactly why. Thanks!

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Shai Almog

That's very cool, looks like it's working nicely!

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Leonardo Montini

That's curious, same here! I didn't pay too much attention because I have an article that performed well recently, but the subscribers spike is actually a couple of days later.

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JoelBonetR 🥇

I've observed that posts that attract most people within the platform usually get featured in the Android left bar later on (you know, when you swipe left in the home screen, can't remember the official name 😅) so it gets pushed for the next some hours after this.

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Hung Vu

I think most followers are from dev.to recommendation when new users join in. There might be a wave of new users, or something changed in the algorithm. I observed the same activity.

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Vincent A. Cicirello

I had a significant spike in followers yesterday as well. I'm guessing either DEV changed something in how users to follow are recommended, or there was a spike in new DEV users.

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Eduard Constantin

got some too

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Ben Halpern

nice

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Soumyadeep Dey ☑️

Legendary number 😭😂

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Eduard Constantin

quite magical 😂

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Cloud Native Engineer

I got 600 followers in 2 days. Most of them seems Spam since they joined the platform today or yesterday (same day that became my followers)