Follower counts

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  srgillesp · Member · Mar 6, 2015 at 6:02 pm

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  I would like to know if the number of followers reported on my blog include those with email addresses that are no longer valid.

  So, if a person subscribes using his company emial, and then changes jobs, and then subscribes again to my blog using a new e-mail, will my follower count number include his old, and presumably invalid, email, or not?

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  thatrobyn · Member · Mar 6, 2015 at 7:05 pm

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  Hey Scott,

  If the email subscriber hasn’t removed the old address as a follower from your site, then yes, they are still counted.

  They can manually remove their subscriptions, using the following instructions:

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/following/#how-to-unfollow-a-blog-if-youre-a-wordpress-com-user

  The instructions at that link will talk your subscriber through the process, whether they are a WordPress.com user, or not.

  I hope this helps! If you have any other concerns, drop me a note. Thanks much!

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  srgillesp · Member · Mar 6, 2015 at 7:12 pm

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  Hi Robyn,

  Thanks for the quick and clear answer – much appreciated!

  So an obvious, but maybe not so simple, suggestion is to ask the WP developer genies to recognize an invalid e-mail address, and remove it from our list of e-mail followers.

  Less outbound mail for WP, and more accurate follower counts for us bloggers.

  Thanks for considering this!

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  thatrobyn · Member · Mar 6, 2015 at 7:39 pm

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  Scott,

  Thanks so much for the idea. It’s a great one. I will pass it along.

  If you have the time to do it, I also recommend that you add your suggestion here:
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/ideas

  It is helpful for WordPress developers to learn our user’s needs….straight from our users!

  Thanks for considering this :)

  Best to you.

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  srgillesp · Member · Mar 6, 2015 at 7:48 pm

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  Thanks for the link. It’s done and dusted!

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  thatrobyn · Member · Mar 6, 2015 at 7:56 pm

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  Fabulous! Ha :) Thanks for taking the time to do that.