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Follower/Subscriber Count Discrepancy, Widget vs. Stats

  1. emilywenstrom
    Member

    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!

    The blog I need help with is creativejuicer.wordpress.com.

  2. timethief
    Member

    If you use Publicize then I believe all your Facebook and Twitter followers are being counted in as well.

  3. emilywenstrom
    Member

    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!

  4. emilywenstrom
    Member

    Oh, and sorry, according to my stats page, those 41 subscribers do include Publicize.

  5. timethief
    Member

    I flagged this thread for a Staff response.

  6. bryanvillarin
    Staff

    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

  7. emilywenstrom
    Member

    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!

  8. bryanvillarin
    Staff

    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!

  9. reflectionsfromahungarianamerican
    Member

    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!

  10. emilywenstrom
    Member

    Do you have Twitter or another account linked up to your Publicize, perhaps?

  11. reflectionsfromahungarianamerican
    Member

    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!

  12. reflectionsfromahungarianamerican
    Member

    only thing is, if it is google+ and linkedin, they are not showing up in my stats...

  13. mevrouwkinderboek
    Member

    Same problem here...

    189blog followers

  14. mevrouwkinderboek
    Member

    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??

  15. sandykuntz
    Member

    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?

  16. sandykuntz
    Member

    Maybe my questions should be a new thread, sorry. New at this.

  17. tulikad
    Member

    Till yesterday I could see my facebook followers, as subscribers now they have disappeared, why? tulikasthoughts.wordpress.com

  18. reflectionsfromahungarianamerican
    Member

    this happened to me too. so i disconnected facebook from wordpress, then reconnected, and my fb followers showed up again.

  19. reflectionsfromahungarianamerican
    Member

    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!

  20. tulikad
    Member

    thank u guys. it worked!

  21. adrianamills
    Member

    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!

  22. adrianamills
    Member

    So Facebook and Twitter are out of count!

  23. reflectionsfromahungarianamerican
    Member

    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

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