on followers
See, you keep talking about new followers like they’re something to be feared…
Having started with the whole “i have a website” thing back in 1999, I come from a very traditional blogging background, and I never really cared much about stats, or knew how to check them. I also never served my feeds through feedburner or anything like that, so when someone mentioned me/my site or linked to me on their site, it was either someone I knew from irc, or a friend of someone I knew from irc, or someone on whose site I had left a comment, or sent a trackback/pingback.
Out here in tumblr-land, it’s totally different. I have a total of 22 followers, 10 of which are people I have no idea who they are or why they follow me. The remaining 11 are from #tumblrs, and the last one is my theme testbed.
That said, I love to have readers and stuff, do stick around for me. I suppose I’m just not used to knowing who they are, and sometimes it’s kinda hard to get to “know” someone from their tumblr account alone.
Maybe I should set up one of those comment widget thingies? I suppose it would help make me feel more “at home” since I’ve always been kinda tied to the old ways. Then again, I suppose reblogs serve a kind of similar function, so it’s all good in the end. I’ll get used to it soon.
I would imagine I fall in the “10 of which are people I have no idea who they are or why they follow me” category. I don’t know vidar what so ever, as I don’t know a great many of the people I follow really.
Following people on Tumblr is an organic thing for me… I had a few people I knew, or found through other sources, that I initially followed. Through the Dashboard, I clicked through on people that reblogged their stuff and if I liked what they were posting themselves, they got a +Follow. Then I check out who’s reblogging the people I found through people reblogging people I knew and so on and so on. It’s a six-degrees kind of thing; unfortunately, I haven’t found Kevin Bacon yet…
Source: vidar
