Counting your followers

How Medium counts your followers, and the backfills that disrupted itPhoto: Crissy Jarvis on UnsplashA recent wave of users have questioned the validity of the displayed number of followers on their profiles. At one point, their follower number increased, some even by the thousands, but then a few weeks later went back down to around where the user originally remembered. Some users were concerned: Were their profiles hacked? Did a wave of users suddenly follow and then unfollow them? The answer ...

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