When Looking for a Blog to Sponsor

There are a few things I need to get out of the way before I dive in to this one little thing that annoys me when I'm wandering around blogs.

One. I have experience in analyzing data (in social media).
Two. Not because people are new to blogging, you should not be making a fool out of them.

When I was looking for blogs to sponsor, I noticed some blogs sum up all their followers. Here's an example.

BLOG STATS:

GFC: 1,321 followers

Bloglovin: 1,098 folowers

Twitter: 1,045 followers

Facebook: 543 likes

Instagram: 987 followers

TOTAL FOLLOWERS:  4,994 ACROSS SOCIAL MEDIA!

When I see this, this is what I feel like doing...

 

The stats looked great until wait, what do you mean you added all your followers?! Here is why you should not do it: Not all of those followers are unique. Meaning there can be multiple people who follow you on GFC, Bloglovin and Twitter so you cannot count them as two, three or more people. Unless you have an analytics program that can track your unique followers across social media, then it's almost impossible to get your total unique followers. Oh and if you find a program like that, please let me know. Thank you.

K? K. 

PS
No pets were harmed in taking that photo above. We were playing "attack mama's hand" when it was taken. 

PPS
As a loyal reader reader pointed out that (see first comment), as a reference, here are some of the blogger that I think are doing the numbers game right! :) One. Two. Three.