followers not showing up

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  adventuresincreativejournalism · Member · Oct 4, 2016 at 11:00 pm

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  Hello! I just created my blog and have several people, including myself, who have ‘followed’ it, but in the people tab, I’m told I have no followers. What am I missing?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Oct 4, 2016 at 11:03 pm

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  Your wordpress.com subscribers are found here https://wordpress.com/my-stats/?blog_subscribers

  Note that the title there includes Publicize followers from social networks. https://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/

  Your email only subscribers are here https://wordpress.com/my-stats/?blog_subscribers&type=email

  You cannot subscribe on the behalf of anyone else. They have to act.

  All that’s required to follow any blog hosted by wordpress.COM is exactly what you were required to provide to register here, and that is a valid email address that the published posts can be sent to.

  Here subscribers control their own subscriptions and frequency of receipt of posts from sites they subscribe to. We cannot act on their behalf.

  You can set up email subscriptions here > Appearance > Widgets > Follow Blog Widget by using this guide > http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/follow-blog-widget/

  Widgets can be configured to appear only on certain pages (or be hidden on certain pages) by clicking on the Visibility button.
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/#widget-visibility

  We have a subscription shortcode which you can make use of. The help page on it is right here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/blog-subscription-shortcode/ You can also include the subscription shortcode at the end of every post you publish.

  Staff have recently added the mailchimp widget for subscriptions and here is the link to the guide you must use https://en.support.wordpress.com/mailchimp

  Additional information:
  You can create a Subscribe page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ add and customize a contact form with multiple fields, change the email address where you’ll be notified, and mark feedbacks as spam from your dashboard on that page. http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/

  Read more at https://en.support.wordpress.com/?s=following

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  adventuresincreativejournalism · Member · Oct 4, 2016 at 11:15 pm

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  Thank you. It was the email confirmation step that was tripping things up.

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  timethief · Member · Oct 5, 2016 at 10:37 pm

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  You’re welcome and best wishes.