I would not take it personal or as a reflection of your actions. Often times recruiters will get approval from a manager to move forward on a batch of people.

I would not take it personal or as a reflection of your actions. Often times recruiters will get approval from a manager to move forward on a batch of people. People are interviewed usually back-to-back based on peoples schedules. If they find enough people to fill the role and use up all the FTE/contractor slots they had available, then the remaining people would be thanked for applying as a courtesy. They will always schedule more people than they have slots for in the event that some of the candidates turned out to not be a perfect fit.