My 1500th Twitter Follower

I haven't been tracking things on Twtter like I meticulously do on the blog, but things are happening for me in that world as well.   Was excited to note that I passed the 1500 mark in terms of Twitter followers this week.

Yay me!.  It's humbling that you think I have something important enough to say that you sign up to follow my Twitter feed  

It's deeply appreciated and humbling at the same time.   I also find it interesting it's occurring at the same time I'm hitting milestones on the blog as well.

Once again I have to thank you loyal TransGriot readers and everybody else who spends your precious websurfing time following what I write and sending or tweeting it to your friends and colleagues.
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Post Number 5000!

You're looking at another milestone post here on TransGriot.   It's number 5000 since I began compiling this blog on January 1, 2006.

With my 6th blogiversary coming up on New Year's Day I knew I had a lot to say about a wide variety of subjects besides what was going on in the trans community from an Afrocentric perspective, but little did I realize that I'd still be passionately writing about these issues and a lot more almost six years later.

I thank you loyal TransGriot readers who keep coming back here to read what I have to say, forward the links to your friends, and tell your friends and associates about my humble blog.   I also thank those of you who not only take the time to drop a little change in the TransGriot Tip Jar from time to time.

I'm also inspired by those of you who have e-mailed me and told me how much a post meant to you, inspired you, caused you to rethink drastic acts, or gave you the strength to look at yourselves in a whole new way.

Thanks you for coming to my cyberhome.    And now on to the next milestone.

TransGriot Milestone Hit Posts

As much as I enjoy compiling and writing the posts you love to read at TransGriot, I also marvel at how fast it has grown to become the award winning place it is today. 

I remember how shocked I was to discover on the January 17, 2007 King Day I finally installed the hit counter on this blog I had 400 people a day reading it.   Now I get those numbers in less than two hours and consider it a disappointing day if I don't get at least 4000 people a day visiting it. 

One of the things I like doing is when I hit blogging milestones, I not only celebrate and mark the occasion with a post so I have a historical record of the day and time I accomplished that feat, I jot my thoughts down at that particular moment as well.  

I started the blog on January 1, 2006 and note it took me 38 months to get to 500,000 hits.  After that it's taking me mere months to hit these milestones.    

500,000 hits  March 1, 2009

1 million hits   December 10, 2009

1.5 million hits  August 27, 2010

2 million hits  January 28, 2011


2.5 million hits  June 1, 2011

3 million hits  October 27, 2011

But one of the undeniable facts is that without you readers coming by on a regular basis,  I couldn't do it without you.  And if you really like what I do here on these electronic pages, feel free to drop some bills in the TransGriot Tip Jar in the upper left hand margin.

Thank you for stopping by TransGriot, and on to the next milestone.