Checking the [matlab]-tag, I noticed that SO says that there are 1.3k followers - a few days ago it was less than 10. Is this a bug or has the tag really become so popular?
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1possible duplicate of Confusion about the new tag hover-text wording– gnostradamusCommented Jan 18, 2011 at 6:19
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That is a fantastic dupe, @gnostradamus!– PopsCommented Jan 18, 2011 at 14:45
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I eat fantastic dupes as my breakfast. This one will be on my sandwich tomorrow.– user146787Commented Jan 26, 2011 at 21:54
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"Followers" is equal to number of people who have favorited (aka interesting-ed) the tag plus the number of email subscribers.
It does not reflect RSS subscribers, as we do not track that.
answered Jan 18, 2011 at 3:39
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I already expected something like that :) Higher counts looks more appealing.– user138231Commented Jan 18, 2011 at 3:47
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Wildcards are not supported in the counts. If you hover over a wildcard in your interesting list the count is for the tag portion not including the wildcard chars. Commented Jan 18, 2011 at 7:56
I don't think so. I see the same explosive increase on other tags. I can think of three reasons for this:
It is a relatively new feature which is not 2 weeks old yet if I am correct, people have yet to discover it and subscribe for it. Keep in mind that SO has already over a million pageviews on a daily basis.
The amounts are not real-time and only recalculated on a daily basis or two.
They added the amount of users who have added the tag to Favorite Tags to make it look better.
It can also be a combination of any of those.
