I Lost Over 1100 Followers Today

And that’s okay.

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I woke up this morning and did my morning work routine.

Part of this routine is having my much-needed jolt of cold coffee while checking my email and then reviewing comments on my website and notifications on Medium.

Then I saw my Medium profile page:

7.2 followers.

Which is great!

But up until yesterday, I had 8.3k!

Obviously, I was confused.

So, I did what anyone in this situation would do.

I Googled it.

And this came up as the second result:

You Just Lost a Ton of Medium Followers, and That’s a Good Thing

Gaby Rogut linked to and explained the new Medium announcement (which I missed) talking about the crackdown on spam and bot accounts.