Commaful has 136439 users, the majority of them are fantastic authors. This was presented for the purpose of curiosity, not to make Commaful more competitive. There's more to Commaful than gaining followers, and the quantity of followers you have has nothing to do with your talent or ability. The number of followers tells you only that there are other people out there who enjoy writing about comma violence. Commaful began as a blog in 2007 written by three students from Duke University. It was created as a place where they could share their love of commas with others. Since then, it has become one of the largest blogs of its kind in the world with over 35 million page views and growing each month. The students who wrote the first post were Andy Clarke, now an editor at New York Magazine; Christopher Meyer, who goes by Chris O'Dell now; and Andrew Schwartz, who works at Google Ventures. Andy started Commaful as a way to teach himself HTML after being stuck on a computer programming task for too long. He quickly discovered that he enjoyed writing about his frustrations with punctuation so much that he decided to turn it into a full-time job. After graduating from Duke in 2006, Chris took over as Commaful's lead writer while Andy and Chris taught English at different schools in Durham, North Carolina.