Users following a (private) blog

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  tomassokolnicki · Member · Apr 22, 2015 at 7:53 am

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  I have an issue with integrity which I just can’t understand. I have 29 followers of my blog, which is private. At the same time, when looking at the top page, it says “you are following this blog together with 58 other amazing people”. If this is correct, then there must be additional people who follow the blog, whom I’m not aware of??

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

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  aideur · Member · Apr 22, 2015 at 8:15 am

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  Hi tomassokolnicki !

  It’s weird, i tried to see your content, it’s impossible, your blog is private.
  I tried with the RSS feed, also block.

  According to this msg : https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/unapproved-follower-is-following-my-private-blog

  ” If your site is marked “Private” in the Dashboard>Reading settings (which the above WPcom site is not) they will not receive any notification of new posts you may make unless you have invited them to view your site.”

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  tomassokolnicki · Member · Apr 22, 2015 at 9:29 am

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  Aideur! thanks for checking, that makes me feel better, ie noone external seems to be able to access the blog. Still confused about the numbers though – 29/58… Don’t know if it’s a coincidence that it’s 2×29??

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  galois · Member · Apr 22, 2015 at 9:48 am

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  @tomassokolnicki: the “58 other amazing people” is the total number of followers: blog + Twitter + Facebook + Linkedin….etc.

  Go to https://wordpress.com/my-stats/
  You can see the numbers at the left bottom corner.

  @aideur: that document https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/unapproved-follower-is-following-my-private-blog is irrelevant in this thread/ask.

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  galois · Member · Apr 22, 2015 at 9:52 am

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  I tried with the RSS feed, also block.

  P.S.: because the blog is private.

  Still confused about the numbers though – 29/58…

  P.S.2: 29 blog followers + 29 social followers (Twitter, Facebook, etc.)

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  tomassokolnicki · Member · Apr 22, 2015 at 6:23 pm

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  thanks galois, I think I’m beginning to grasp….
  in the list of followers there are 58, some marked ‘Following’, some ‘Follow’ and some have no indicator.
  Is it correct that out of the 58, those who I don’t have on the approved list could be previous users, who are no longer able to access the blog?
  When looking at subscriptions, it shows that there are only 1 email follower – thus the rest must be followers directly in or through WordPress. Correct?

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  galois · Member · Apr 22, 2015 at 6:25 pm

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  When looking at subscriptions, it shows that there are only 1 email follower – thus the rest must be followers directly in or through WordPress. Correct?

  Yep.

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  tomassokolnicki · Member · Apr 24, 2015 at 11:45 am

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  Here’s another follow up question, which confuses me a bit more:

  when I go into Settings, and look at ‘Users allowed to access site’, there are only 7 (!!) users on that list. so now I’m utterly confused again, sorry to say….