Massive Loss of Followers

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  mblechman · Member · Oct 2, 2012 at 12:26 am

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  I had 221 followers a few hours ago, and now I only have 70. What could have happened so quickly?? Did something happen on the backend that deleted them?
  Blog url: http://whereartmeetsfashion.wordpress.com/

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

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  timethief · Member · Oct 2, 2012 at 1:04 am

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  Staff are working on the followers feature. Please don’t panic.

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  bryanvillarin · Staff · Oct 2, 2012 at 1:06 am

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  Can you try disconnecting and reconnecting Publicize with Twitter?

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  valeriesirr · Member · Oct 2, 2012 at 1:11 am

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  Any update on the problem with the follow button? It’s showing only blog followers ie no publicize figures included

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  bryanvillarin · Staff · Oct 2, 2012 at 6:26 pm

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  Howdy valeriesirr,

  You can see more details about that in this (currently stickied) forum thread from Beau:

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/publicize-follower-counts-not-showing-or-showing-incorrectly

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  mblechman · Member · Oct 3, 2012 at 1:05 am

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  the twitter trick worked!! thank you!

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  bryanvillarin · Staff · Oct 4, 2012 at 10:38 pm

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  You’re welcome!