A few weeks ago, Tadeusz Szewczyk stumbled and reviewed one of my posts. Immediately after that, I received a lot of traffic from StumbleUpon users. Such a thing has never happened to me before.
When it comes to traffic from social networking sites, BlogCatalog has always been my main supplier of traffic because I have a number of great friends that side. But, as of now, StumbleUpon has overtaken BlogCatalog by far. As a result, these days, I like spending more of my leisure time stumbling than ever before. And every day, I make more and more StumbleUpon friends, some of whom are top stumblers. You can take a look at my StumbleUpon page, if time is on your side. If you have not yet joined StumbleUpon, I encourage you to join and install their tool bar on your PC. Add me as a friend, if you can. Start enjoying the world of social browsing.
Yesterday, I exchanged messages with caile-girl who is a top stumbler. In one of the messages, she told me that she would have loved to add me as her friend but she can’t just because she has reached the StumbleUpon limit of 200. But she went on to say that there are 24 ghost friends (people who were mutual friends who no longer have SU accounts anymore) in her network and she cannot replace them with live friends like me. She further said that this problem has been going on for a very long time such that most stumblers who have been on StumbleUpon for a long time experience it in varying degrees. This is too bad for a dynamic and addictive social browsing platform of StumbleUpon’s caliber. Can someone at StumbleUpon, please, rectify this anomaly now! It is seemingly small things like these that put off members:(. Do not get surprised when some folks start their own StumbleUpon clone. Go and ask Digg! They now have to battle for members with Mixx.
Comments are welcome. Remember that this is a Do-Follow blog. Today, I am traveling to Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi, for a funeral so I will be outa here. I will only come back on Monday to take a look at your wonderful com
20 users commented in " Ghost friends at StumbleUpon.Too bad! "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackIt is surprising to note that Stumbleupon has members who no longer has account with it. You have rightly pointed about the future.
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Wow I didn’t know that, seems a shame, SU should definitely fix it.
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This is an issue I also have and I hope it will be solved by SU administration. I just love to have friends, and 200 is a small limit anyway.
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I have not really looked at SU yet. Someone did however stop by my Zimbabwe blog via SU which was a bit of a surprise. Does it really get you a lot of traffic?
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Well stumbleupon is the best when it comes to building traffic to your blog, forget about BlogCatalog,could help you make just a few friends; personally prefer MyBlogLOg. Found you on StumbleUpon. Good day.
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Clement, it is good you are speaking out about the issues that concern you and others in the community. That is what a blog is for!
A blog is a voice of the people!
One thing I would like to point out to you, the power is not in numbers but in knowledge.
I do not participate on StumbleUpon but a few of my friends do. I did not find your blog from StumbleUpon, but on Andy’s site. and I came here because I like how you think.
Enlightened minority is more powerful than ignorant majority!
Good luck to you as a blogger and as a voice of the people.
Igor
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Wow Clement, you really touched my heart!
Thank you for the Stumble!
We do have many things in common!
You are a software engineer and I am a developer.
Please take a look at http://www.phsdl.net an anti Malware Spam domains project that I have developed and administrating now.
But I think we have a stronger connection, we are both Humanitarians who care about people.
You have showed me that with your courtesy reciprocity comment on my blog after I have commented on yours.
That is blogger etiquettes. And I hope all us bloggers follow this as respect for each other, empowering each other to fight oppression no matter in what form it comes to us!
Peace my brother, and hope to see you in Japan one day.
Igor
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Igor, Great to see you come back here and comment twice in a space of less than four hours.I was made to believe that you are based in Thailand because of one of your sites but my stat counter showed that you visited my blog from Tokyo via Andy’s post.Since there is a lot of traveling these days, I stuck to the fact that you are Thai based.My friend,a blog is indeed a voice of the people.I have friends from all over the world now courtesy of blogging.I like your statement: Enlightened minority is more powerful than ignorant majority!
Nice to learn that you are a developer. You may wish to know that my background is Electrical Engineering and I am working my way up the OSI model because there is more excitement up there. My MSc research was on IP Congestion control (Layer 3).I did a lot of coding in C++ on the NS Simulation platform but now I am working my way up the layers. Thats why I moved my blog from free Google blogger to this domain. I would like to learn a lot about server side programming.And I can see that, in you, I have found a great developer from whom I will learn a lot.Be assured that I will be a frequent visitor at the http://www.phsdl.net site.
I will write more in private now that the connection between us is getting stronger. God bless you. You have made my day 🙂
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Matt, I have added you. I see that you are far from the 200 limit, so please return the favour by adding me on.
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@Kristof:I understand your argument quite well. But you must be informed that according to the top stumblers that I have interacted with in the recent past, this problem has been there for a long time.StumbleUpon, big as they are, they should have sorted it out by now.
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Hi Clement, I am also a great fan of BlogCatalog and sad to say I am quite low in SU. However, nowadays I am trying hard to get more traffic from SU. I also started a campaign to do review exchange in SU. See below.
http://bloggeroftheweb.com/?p=101
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i’m receiving the benefits of SU too. My blog is receiving traffics that i couldn’t believe.
At SU, i don’t have friend quiet much, yet.
But now, I stumble everyday.
🙂
the funny thing is, i know your blog from blogcatalog, not from SU.
:))
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I am also a great fan of blog catalog but i didn’t have much traffic like stumble upon but in fact the good relation with other bloggers is from blog catalog so i like it more
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@haishor:Actually I initially befriended most of my StumbleUpon friends on BlogCatalog.My SU friends network is essentially an extension of my BC friends network.
@midomssh:I also like BC but when it comes to traffic generation, SU is far much better.
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@Blog for money: Wishing you all the best in the review exchange campaign.I will surely take part
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I’ve had the same problem at StumbleUpon, but not as badly as you.
Adam Hyman
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that really sucks I’m at my max too 🙁 I’m bookmarking you in my faves though
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Thanks for bookmarking me in your faves
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I didn’t know about ghost friends at Stumble Upon. That seems so unfair
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