StumbleUpon Loses “Audience” Counter
There’s always been a lot of confusion as to the difference and meaning of “Audience” and “Fans” in StumbleUpon.
“Fans” are pretty easy. It’s the number of friends you have, plus the number of people that have subscribed to your pages (which they’ve done by friending you, or possibly just by thumbs-upping your SU profile).
Audience was a weird one. Sometimes mine would only go up by one or two, then it shot up by hundreds, then dropped hundreds. My closest guess is to assume it was an expression of an internal algorithm that showed your SU Karma or vote weight.
And now its gone, which is a good thing. That was a useless (although) fun bit of information that confused the hell out of a lot of people. And people were obsessing about it. And people were trying to increase it, likely by not honestly stumbling pages. Overall, this should now create a better user experience and better stumblers.
