WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Follower/Subscriber Count Discrepancy, Widget vs. Stats http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/followersubscriber-count-discrepancy-widget-vs-stats WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Follower/Subscriber Count Discrepancy, Widget vs. Stats en Tue, 21 May 2013 10:07:46 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 reflectionsfromahungarianamerican on "Follower/Subscriber Count Discrepancy, Widget vs. Stats" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/followersubscriber-count-discrepancy-widget-vs-stats#post-1030934 Fri, 05 Oct 2012 16:52:38 +0000 reflectionsfromahungarianamerican 1030934@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ you need to disconnect from facebook, and then reconnect.i had this problem last week and had to reconnect for them to show up again

]]> adrianamills on "Follower/Subscriber Count Discrepancy, Widget vs. Stats" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/followersubscriber-count-discrepancy-widget-vs-stats#post-1030742 Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:35:20 +0000 adrianamills 1030742@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ So Facebook and Twitter are out of count!

]]> adrianamills on "Follower/Subscriber Count Discrepancy, Widget vs. Stats" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/followersubscriber-count-discrepancy-widget-vs-stats#post-1030740 Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:34:29 +0000 adrianamills 1030740@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Mine is even worse.... it is only showing the number of followers in the blog... 9 !!! Although it is saying that that it includes Publicize....

It is not.... So the total is totally wrong. Please advise!

]]> tulikad on "Follower/Subscriber Count Discrepancy, Widget vs. Stats" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/followersubscriber-count-discrepancy-widget-vs-stats#post-1027974 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 16:19:01 +0000 tulikad 1027974@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ thank u guys. it worked!

]]> reflectionsfromahungarianamerican on "Follower/Subscriber Count Discrepancy, Widget vs. Stats" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/followersubscriber-count-discrepancy-widget-vs-stats#post-1027875 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 13:48:19 +0000 reflectionsfromahungarianamerican 1027875@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ i read somewhere on one of the wordpress support pages, that sometimes the connection between fb and wordpress gets broken or deactivated. so it explained you need to disconnect and reconnect again when this happens. hopefully this helps!

]]> reflectionsfromahungarianamerican on "Follower/Subscriber Count Discrepancy, Widget vs. Stats" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/followersubscriber-count-discrepancy-widget-vs-stats#post-1027874 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 13:47:14 +0000 reflectionsfromahungarianamerican 1027874@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ this happened to me too. so i disconnected facebook from wordpress, then reconnected, and my fb followers showed up again.

]]> tulikad on "Follower/Subscriber Count Discrepancy, Widget vs. Stats" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/followersubscriber-count-discrepancy-widget-vs-stats#post-1027675 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 06:31:48 +0000 tulikad 1027675@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Till yesterday I could see my facebook followers, as subscribers now they have disappeared, why? tulikasthoughts.wordpress.com

]]> sandykuntz on "Follower/Subscriber Count Discrepancy, Widget vs. Stats" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/followersubscriber-count-discrepancy-widget-vs-stats#post-1023313 Thu, 27 Sep 2012 03:44:00 +0000 sandykuntz 1023313@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Maybe my questions should be a new thread, sorry. New at this.

]]> sandykuntz on "Follower/Subscriber Count Discrepancy, Widget vs. Stats" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/followersubscriber-count-discrepancy-widget-vs-stats#post-1023312 Thu, 27 Sep 2012 03:42:32 +0000 sandykuntz 1023312@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Along these lines, how do Facebook followers work? Are they receiving new posts on FB? And, is there a way to see who they are?

]]> mevrouwkinderboek on "Follower/Subscriber Count Discrepancy, Widget vs. Stats" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/followersubscriber-count-discrepancy-widget-vs-stats#post-1022579 Wed, 26 Sep 2012 12:57:06 +0000 mevrouwkinderboek 1022579@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Sorry, I will try again:

189 blog followers
1097 twitter
2383 total followers according to the follow blog-widget.

It looks like Twitter counts double??

]]> mevrouwkinderboek on "Follower/Subscriber Count Discrepancy, Widget vs. Stats" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/followersubscriber-count-discrepancy-widget-vs-stats#post-1022578 Wed, 26 Sep 2012 12:55:11 +0000 mevrouwkinderboek 1022578@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Same problem here...

189blog followers

]]> reflectionsfromahungarianamerican on "Follower/Subscriber Count Discrepancy, Widget vs. Stats" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/followersubscriber-count-discrepancy-widget-vs-stats#post-1020586 Mon, 24 Sep 2012 16:36:41 +0000 reflectionsfromahungarianamerican 1020586@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ only thing is, if it is google+ and linkedin, they are not showing up in my stats...

]]> reflectionsfromahungarianamerican on "Follower/Subscriber Count Discrepancy, Widget vs. Stats" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/followersubscriber-count-discrepancy-widget-vs-stats#post-1020545 Mon, 24 Sep 2012 16:02:34 +0000 reflectionsfromahungarianamerican 1020545@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I don't have twitter, but I just recently linked my blog to google+ and LinkedIn. But that was just like two weeks ago, so that could be where they came from, but to get 641 more people in two weeks seems awful quick. but that might be the answer...thx!

]]> emilywenstrom on "Follower/Subscriber Count Discrepancy, Widget vs. Stats" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/followersubscriber-count-discrepancy-widget-vs-stats#post-1020462 Mon, 24 Sep 2012 14:57:02 +0000 emilywenstrom 1020462@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Do you have Twitter or another account linked up to your Publicize, perhaps?

]]> reflectionsfromahungarianamerican on "Follower/Subscriber Count Discrepancy, Widget vs. Stats" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/followersubscriber-count-discrepancy-widget-vs-stats#post-1019873 Sun, 23 Sep 2012 19:20:49 +0000 reflectionsfromahungarianamerican 1019873@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I have a question along those same lines. My follow blog widget says I have 1,289 followers. But my total blog followers is 7, plus my facebook friends is 641. So that is a total of only 648. That doesn't account for 641 other followers I supposedly have. What is the problem? I am most confused... Thanks!

]]> bryanvillarin on "Follower/Subscriber Count Discrepancy, Widget vs. Stats" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/followersubscriber-count-discrepancy-widget-vs-stats#post-983869 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 21:23:20 +0000 bryanvillarin 983869@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi Emily,

So I just checked and WordPress.com followers are updated instantly, while Facebook and Twitter numbers are updated daily (as long as the numbers they provide are correct).

I hope that clears things up — cheers!

]]> emilywenstrom on "Follower/Subscriber Count Discrepancy, Widget vs. Stats" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/followersubscriber-count-discrepancy-widget-vs-stats#post-983625 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 19:05:54 +0000 emilywenstrom 983625@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hmm ok:

Blog followers: 42 (31 WordPress / 11 email)
Twitter followers: 726
Facebook friends: 220

Total: 988

My "Followers" count in the subscriber widget is counting 980.

Is there maybe a delay in that count? If so, I think I get it now. Otherwise, I know you're right, but I'm still wondering what I'm missing.

One way or another, I knew my followers count was just too optimistic :-/ Thanks for the help!

]]> bryanvillarin on "Follower/Subscriber Count Discrepancy, Widget vs. Stats" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/followersubscriber-count-discrepancy-widget-vs-stats#post-982522 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:54:32 +0000 bryanvillarin 982522@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi,

Are you adding the follow numbers from the Totals, Followers & Shares module on your stats page? You'll want to add these numbers:

  • blog followers
  • Twitter followers
  • Facebook friends
]]> timethief on "Follower/Subscriber Count Discrepancy, Widget vs. Stats" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/followersubscriber-count-discrepancy-widget-vs-stats#post-982428 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:05:24 +0000 timethief 982428@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I flagged this thread for a Staff response.

]]> emilywenstrom on "Follower/Subscriber Count Discrepancy, Widget vs. Stats" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/followersubscriber-count-discrepancy-widget-vs-stats#post-982426 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:04:01 +0000 emilywenstrom 982426@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Oh, and sorry, according to my stats page, those 41 subscribers do include Publicize.

]]> emilywenstrom on "Follower/Subscriber Count Discrepancy, Widget vs. Stats" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/followersubscriber-count-discrepancy-widget-vs-stats#post-982422 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:03:22 +0000 emilywenstrom 982422@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hmm ... Thanks for the insight, but that still doesn't add up. If I add up my Twitter and Facebook followers I get 957. If I then add in my followers according to my stat page I get 997. But my widget says I have 975 followers at the moment.

Still confused!

]]> timethief on "Follower/Subscriber Count Discrepancy, Widget vs. Stats" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/followersubscriber-count-discrepancy-widget-vs-stats#post-982368 Mon, 20 Aug 2012 23:22:38 +0000 timethief 982368@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ If you use Publicize then I believe all your Facebook and Twitter followers are being counted in as well.

]]> emilywenstrom on "Follower/Subscriber Count Discrepancy, Widget vs. Stats" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/followersubscriber-count-discrepancy-widget-vs-stats#post-981592 Mon, 20 Aug 2012 15:25:57 +0000 emilywenstrom 981592@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I am using the basic wordpress "Follow Blog" widget to allow my readers to subscribe to my blog by email. I recently noticed an issue with how my subscribers are being counted. According to the widget my follower count is over 900. However, if I go to my stats page, it lists 41 followers.

What's going on? Have I deluded myself thinking I'm more successful than I really am?

This is regarding the blog http://www.creativejuicer.wordpress.com. Thanks!

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