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100 WordPress Blog Followers Gone Five Minutes

As I have been mentioning in my posts about what I blog,I write because I want to be heard.

Whether somebody hears it, does not matter!

However I keep checking the Statistics in the Admin section of my blog site.

While posting a Blog this morning, I noticed a curious thing.

I had 898 Blog followers.

Total was 14888, which included Comments, Twitter and FaceBook and Tumblr followers, where I distribute my posts.

While writing a Post, this morning, I had to refer my earlier posts.

While doing so, I noticed that the Blog Followers, which just about five minutes back was 898, had become 722, in one shot.

I am curious.

Have the people who have been following my posts suddenly decided that my posts were not worth following and unsubscribed in five minutes simultaneously?

Or the Followers are nothing but Spam?

Simple Step To Block Telemarketers.

All of us are used to being pestered by Telemarketers.

They call you at any time.

They start with .Can I take some of Your Time(?) ?

My answer at times ,No, You can not"

In one instance, I had a Call asking me to invest Money for retirement and pension Plan.

My eely was 'I am over sixty, if you have a scheme which pays me with out my paying I would be interested'

Some times I feel sorry for the Telecallers for they are simply doing their jobs to make a Living.

A blogger from Tumblr has come out with an idea to block the TeleCallers.

Read On.

Max, a designer from Chicago who maintains the blog Maxistentialist, got tired of telemarketing calls after providing his phone number to businesses. So, he bought a 'junk' number for $1 a month and created his own phonebot to answer it with "a twenty minute passage from Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities."

In his blog post, kind Max also explains in detail how anyone can make their own phonebot, as follows:

Create a ridiculous voicemail message - Audacity is a great, free, cross-platform audio editor and recorder you can use.

Upload your audio file to a server, a public Dropbox link will also work.

Register an account at Twilio, hook up your credit card, and buy a number.

When you configure the number, paste this code into the Voice Request URL field:

http://twimlets.com/echo?Twiml=%3CResponse%3E%0A%3CPlay%3E [LINK TO YOUR AUDIO FILE HERE, MAKE SURE YOU USE ESCAPE CHARACTERS]%3C%2FPlay%3E%0A%3CRecord%20transcribe%3D%22true%22%20transcribeCallback%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Ftwimlets.com%2Fvoicemail%3FEmail%3D[YOUR EMAIL HERE, ALSO IN ESCAPE CHARACTERS] %22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2FResponse%3E&

Make sure the Request URL is set to “post."

Go ahead and delete the SMS Request URL.

Test it - you should be good to go.