Sudden drop in subscriber number shown

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  mrsdubai · Member · Oct 2, 2012 at 9:52 am

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  Overnight, my number of subscribers shown on the Home page has dropped from 2,967 to 133. This can’t be true. Is there any other explanation?
  http://mrsdubai.wordpress.com/
  Blog url: http://mrsdubai.wordpress.com/

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  dutchgoesitalian · Member · Oct 2, 2012 at 11:08 am

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  I have the same! Dropped with 530 subscribers. You need to reconnect to FB, Twitter, LinkedIn etc via Settings > Sharing > and then reconnect. My problem is that I still don’t have everybody back. I’m missing my normal subscribers who don’t have FB, twitter etc!
  So any help is appreciated!!

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  mrsdubai · Member · Oct 2, 2012 at 1:33 pm

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  Thanks for your reply. I seem still to be connected to twitter. But I can’t think how over 2,800 subscribers disappeared overnight :(

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  dutchgoesitalian · Member · Oct 2, 2012 at 1:44 pm

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  That’s just crazy. And if you disconnect and reconnect afterwards??

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  katherinehilden · Member · Oct 3, 2012 at 4:08 pm

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  Yesterday, Oct 2, I started updating my blog at 185 subscribers. When the post was up a few minutes later, I noticed that my subscribers were down to 25. I have two other blogs and there the numbers also dropped by 160. It’s comforting to know this happened to others, too, but what caused it. Obviously, a systems problem.

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  mrsdubai · Member · Oct 4, 2012 at 12:37 pm

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  just to update: I deleted my computer’s cache and cookies and suddenly got 1,500 subscribers back. I’ve still lost 1,400 but at least half are back. It might be worth trying that. Good luck

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  katherinehilden · Member · Oct 16, 2012 at 8:05 pm

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  My computer genius tells me that deleting cookies won’t fix the problem. Rather it sounds like the large number of lost subscribers was the action of a bot (=robot) and that’s probably how, a few months ago, I suddenly gained 160 subscribers. They are not real subscribers, but some number that a WordPress glitch came up with.

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  mrsdubai · Member · Oct 17, 2012 at 5:39 am

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  Hello Katherine, I think you are right. it can only be due to glitches.

  Happy to report that after a few days, almost all my subscribers were back again. It’s very worrying when it happens though!

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  katherinehilden · Member · Oct 17, 2012 at 1:32 pm

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  It happened two weeks ago, Oct 2, and my subscribers are not back. It must be a wordpress problem and not about individual subscribers.

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  limberation · Member · Oct 17, 2012 at 2:13 pm

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  Have you see this at the top of the page?

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/publicize-follower-counts-not-showing-or-showing-incorrectly?replies=1

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  mrsdubai · Member · Oct 17, 2012 at 3:37 pm

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  Wow, teamoyeniyi, thank you. That would appear to have been the problem!