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  sophialorenabenjamin · Member · Oct 30, 2021 at 7:27 am

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  Hi,
  I see different numbers associated with the follower count, can you please help.

  WP.com: Yes
  Correct account: Yes

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  divyaab · Member · Oct 30, 2021 at 8:04 am

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  Hi Sophia,

  Thanks for your question. Would you be able to share a bit more from where are you comparing and it is showing a different number of follower count?

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  kokkieh · Staff · Oct 30, 2021 at 1:59 pm

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  Hi there,

  There are three places where you can see your follower count.

  The first is on the stats Insights page: https://wordpress.com/stats/insights/sophialorenabenjamin.wordpress.com

  There I see 997 WordPress.com followers (those are people who clicked the Follow button on your site while logged into a WordPress.com account, and who sees your posts in the WordPress.com Reader), 9 email followers (people who subscribed to email notifications on your site without having a WordPress.com account), and 100 social followers (that’s the number of followers Facebook is reporting for your connected Facebook page).

  The second place is under Users in the dashboard. And the counts I see there at https://wordpress.com/people/followers/sophialorenabenjamin.wordpress.com and at https://wordpress.com/people/email-followers/sophialorenabenjamin.wordpress.com match the stats numbers for your WordPress.com and email followers respectively.

  The third place is the Reader feed for your site at https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/4705871, and the 997 count I see there matches the WordPress.com follower count appearing in the other two locations – the Reader will only show WordPress.com followers, not email or social media followers.

  I hop this clarifies the different numbers you’re seeing, but let us know if you still have any questions about this.