The purge has hit high gear
I see that my Collection that had 80K followers last week now has 10K. One community that had about 1.1 Million members now shows 11K
#endisnear
I see that my Collection that had 80K followers last week now has 10K. One community that had about 1.1 Million members now shows 11K
#endisnear
I'm not sure if it's really a 'purge' or people just decided to stop following. At least that's what I did (unfollowed most collections and left many communities, hoping it would ease the data takeout process). My followers number haven't changed much.
ReplyDeleteHalfey Halphstein Landscape Photography went from over a million members a week or so ago to 15K. Your theory doesn't cover that amount of shrinkage. I'm more inclined to believe Google is purging users that have no activity for "X" days.
ReplyDeleteJohn Soanes I'll believe that once I see my followers dropped to half in the next coming weeks. After all many of them have been inactive for years.
ReplyDeleteDo we think that Google has already started deleting profiles and content just because they're old and inactive? That seems unlikely. And if they are we ought to be seriously pissed about it.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if there has been some major house cleaning as profiles marked as spam/bot are removed and banned. And I wonder if this is the real reason for Google wanting to get out of the social media business. Especially with the spotlight on Facebook and Twitter in the run up to the next US election and UK Brexit.
If that's the case then the inflated community membership, follower and collection follower counts were never real.
Interesting. I've got a list of high-member communities I can check....
ReplyDeleteKeep in mind that there are many similarly named communities, especially on popular topics or themes.
Specific links would be useful.
John Soanes This Landscape Photography is still > 1.5 million:
ReplyDeletehttps://plus.google.com/communities/116871042716967304935
One of the spammier large YouTube communities is over 3.5m members;
https://plus.google.com/communities/110379008453257394820
(possibly NSFW)
It looks like they’re finally purging spambots. To the point that they’re finally coming up with semi-plausible names...
ReplyDeleteplus.google.com - People are reporting that community membership numbers, follower counts and c...
ReplyDeleteRupert Wood has a comment.
Ich habe gestern eine meiner Sammlungen gelöscht und habe alle, fast 400 meiner Posting, dabei angesehen. Es waren fast nur noch meine eigenen Kommentare enthalten. Ich hatte das schon geahnt, denn seit Anfang Februar sind sehr viele G+ Freunde nun endgültig gegangen.
ReplyDeleteIch vermute, viele wollen nicht mehr bis zum letzten Tag bleiben!!!
Ich vermute stark,... Die offizielle Google Benachrichtigung, dass zum 07.03. die Kommentar-Benachrichtigung endet, hat vielen G+ Freunden, den letzten Rest an der G+ Freude verdorben. :-/
Ich konnte auch schon ein größeres abnehmen der Postings von G+ Freunden, zur Jahreswende bemerken.
Von Mitte Januar bis Ende Januar war es dann weiter, eine nur leicht schleichende Abnahme.
Und die restlichen G+ Freunde verringern sich seit Februar Beginn zunehmend.
Ich denke, das wird nicht nur mir aufgefallen sein.
Und erklärt vielleicht die starke Abnahme der Folgerzahlen, auch in Community's und insgesamt auf G+.
Ich denke, dieser stark abnehmende Nutzeranteil ist ein von Google gewollter Effekt. Denn es ist leichter zu schließen, wenn die Nutzer schon ihre eigenen Konten bereinigt oder ganz geschlossen haben!!
Ein Schelm wer böses bei der Mitteilung zum 07.03. denkt...
Aber die Mitteilung scheint gut funktioniert und viele Nutzer zum Verlassen der Plattform angespornt zu haben!!
Rupert Wood suggesting that it's possible nothing has happened and it's the code behind the counter playing up.
ReplyDeleteJulian Bond
ReplyDeleteAh!,... In meinem Fall ist aber sehr sicher, die meisten G+ Freunde sind jetzt gegangen oder gehen bis Monatsende!!
Ein sehr geringer Anteil, ich kann dieses an einer Hand abzählen, postet noch weiter Beiträge.
Etwa ein Drittel hält noch das G+ Konto, hat aber nur noch einen Beitrag darin. Dadurch hat man wenigstens die Möglichkeit, noch eine Nachricht zu schreiben!
Einige haben inzwischen leider auch keinen Beitrag mehr in ihrem Konto! :-/
Aber zwei Drittel sind inzwischen komplett gegangen!!!
Wenn ich die ehemalige Gesamtzahl betrachte, dann kann ich es, in etwa wie folgt aufteilen:
Von etwa einem Drittel ist mir bekannt, diese gingen/gehen zu der "Geschlossenen Gesellschaft", die für mich nicht sinnvoll ist.
Ein Drittel teilt sich...
In einen Teil, der nach Flickr gegangen ist...
In einen Teil, der zu mir unbekannten Orten gegangen ist oder geht...
Und einen kleinen, geringen Anteil, derer, die jetzt in absehbarer Zeit, erst einmal keinerlei social Media machen werden!!!
Das letzte Drittel ist zum größten Anteil, verteilt auf das Zuckerberg Imperium...
und zum geringeren Anteil, verteilt auf dezentrale Netzwerke oder Twitter!!!
Mine went from 106,000 to 15,000 overnight. The community has died down over time, and the vast majority of members are not active anyway, so I'm not concerned but I'm curious as to the reason. This is a good lesson for community owners who are planning to reestablish their communities elsewhere to hurry up.
ReplyDeleteJulian Bond "suggesting" = I don't know. Clearly "something" happened …numbers don't lie.
ReplyDeleteRebecca Quinn I believe the "adjusted" Follower counts on G+ reflect reality. It was shocking to see Landscape Photography drop from over 1 million to 16,500, another large community, Nature now shows about 12K. I know when looking at people in my Circles about 80% haven't been on here in over a year. Oddly, my personal Followers haven't dropped much, my Collections are another story.
ReplyDeleteI think the Community exodus has already happened with, very modest result. LPC has about 800 Members on MeWe, less than 10% of its adjusted G+ Follower count.
http://plus.google.com/communities/110453883006982720647 244 Canadian Landscape Photography
ReplyDeleteI just noticed that my member numbers are back to normal in my community. Maybe it was a temporary glitch.
ReplyDeleteRebecca Quinn probably a slice of a NOSQL that went down...
ReplyDeleteEdward Morbius Landscape Photography Community, was down to 16.5K, now back up to 1.5 million
ReplyDeleteMy Collection is still showing 11K, down from 80K
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ReplyDeleteTo my earlier observations, one of my Collections follower counts has returned to a similar number as previous, another is still down. Without getting into a technical reason that may explain, but not change things, I suggest that whatever you with to do with your content you get a move on now. Google mentally abandoned G+ a long time ago, so they are not going to fix any quirks they accidentally create while breaking other stuff. Just my opinion.
ReplyDeleteJohn Soanes Takeout is fairly reliable just now. I'm still seeing the bug with old posts with old photo albums but otherwise it's working kind of OK and reasonably quickly.
ReplyDeleteTomorrow (2-Mar) will be one month to go till the final sunset. Time for another FUQ-ing post, I think.
Any bets on whether there's a final announcement? I think it's only about 50% that the Google-Powers-That-Be say anything at all.
Julian Bond I did a takeout and deleted it. I cherry picked a handful of items I will rework. I decided to move forward fresh, versus recycle content. Most platforms have different optimal image sizes ...and disk quotas. I also process images quite differently than three years ago.
ReplyDeleteAnother FUQ-ing post
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