Has anyone else had this problem? According to my Blog Stats I have just lost every single one of my followers. I just watched you all drain away. According to WordPress, I now have zero followers.
Is my writing that bad???? Please come back, I’ll try to do better!!!
If anybody out there can help me with this (I have no idea what to do about it and I’m panicking) I would be so very grateful for your help.
Thank you!!!!
Update: Have gone on to the WordPress forums and discovered that quite a few others are also having the same problem, so now I know at least I’m not the only one. First, Spamgate, now Followergate. I hope they fix it soon!
A View From My Summerhouse 
No, your writing is NOT that bad. It’s actually quite good. This must be some kind of glitch on the part of WordPress. Go to the forums and see if you can get someone to answer why this happened to you. (Then share it with us!!)
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I just did and I see that a few others are also having this problem. Do you still show as being a follower of mine?
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Yes, I do. I see it here in the comment box, but I don’t see anything on your blog site about followers.
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I still show that I’m following you. Gosh, I’ll check mine…I have few enough as it is! And yes, please, let us know what’s going on and if the fix is on their end or ours. Thanks for the “heads-up,” Sherri!
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Thanks for letting me know Susan! I will keep you posted. I got a real shock when I went into my blog stats and saw a big fat zero as the number of followers!
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Actually, mine disappeared too! I emailed the Support guys in a public email; hopefully they’ll get back…sooooon!
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Oh no, so sorry! I’ve sent an email too, looks like a lot of us are waiting for a reply. Aaaaaarggghh…what a nuisance.
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Me too. Just now. What’s going on I wonder. One minute I was reading posts and the next pfft. All followers gone. I’m following myself! Which is always good to know, I suppose. 🙂 I daresay it will get sorted unless there’s some….NO, I’m not going for a conspiracy theory today of all days.x
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I never thought of following myself, I should do that! I had a problem with Akismet a couple of months ago, as did many others here in the UK due to a problem with spam, I called it ‘Spamgate’. Now this!! The forum seems to be showing that it is a problem with WordPress so I just hope it clears up soon!!! I did think about that, on this day, a strange thing to happen…thanks for the support and I hope you get it sorted out soon too 🙂
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I thought you kinda had to follow yourself to be kept updated with comments and stuff! I obviously haven’t got a clue! 🙂 It just happened so suddenly. I’ve checked a few other blogs I follow. Some are showing as zero while others remain unchanged. Rather weird. I’m hoping WordPress sort it without any intervention on my part. I hate when things stop working and I have to get involved. Wish I’d taken out an extended warranty. 🙂 I’m sure it’ll be fine.x
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Oh well, neither have I! I’ve learnt something today, lol! Same with me, I watched everyone disappear in front of my eyes and I couldn’t do a thing about it! I’ll keep checking the forums to see if there is an answer. Thanks for being the voice of calm 🙂
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I’m getting a poem out of it! 🙂 x
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Ha Ha! Me too…and it won’t be pretty 😉 x
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We’ll be back. Got to say it in Big Arnie’s voice. 🙂 x
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Hasta La Vista Baby – or something like that 😉
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That’s the ticket. 🙂 x
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Thanks for this post, now I know we are not alone. We’ve lost our email subscribers only.
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How strange. I wonder what is going on? Thanks for letting me know I’m not the only one having this problem, hope we get it sorted out soon 🙂
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Same thing for me, I have also lost all my followers (except those from Twitter) – please wordpress fix the glitch! Thank you!!!
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Yes, please let them fix this and soon!! Thanks for letting me know, I’ll keep updated as and when 🙂
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Sherri, there is a support thread on this ie ppl reporting they have also lost followers – if you google ‘my blog followers have disappeared, all I have left are ….’ you will find it.
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Sherri, i just found there is a support thread on this (of ppl reporting the same problem) – google ‘my blog followers have disappeared … all I have left …’
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Oh yes, thanks, I did see that. Susan posted a link above so we can keep tabs on WordPress’s progress with fixing this glitch. Thanks for the update! Guess we all have to be patient but it is so annoying to say the least!
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Mine just got fixed 🙂 so I’ve stopped having a heart attack! hopefully everyone else will be fixed and it won’t come back again.
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Oh great! Hopefully it will be the same for everyone else now, thank goodness 🙂
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Just noticed, I have all my WordPress followers back but not my email followers, so still not quite fixed 😦
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Weird! 😦
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So did we! But since you’re still showing up on our Reader it must just be a glitch on the stats page.
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Oh thanks so much for letting me know that all you lovely followers are still with me! I don’t want to lose you! Same with you for me in my Reader, so yes, it is definitely a glitch. Let’s hope not for long 😉
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I’ve just lost all my followers also. What is going on?
I wonder if it is a problem with reporting the followers or have they all be deleted by some wordpress meanie?
Arlene
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I think that we must have all lost our followers, or at least lost the stats, at the same time. Very odd. Let’s keep updated 🙂
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I’ve had this too! So glad I’m not the only one… I looked at my stats in horror..
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I know, me too, a really horrible feeling! I was so relieved when I realised I wasn’t the only one. Thanks for letting me know 🙂
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Their first reply: “We’re investigating this currently. We’ll post updates to this thread as we have them: http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/follower-counts
We appreciate your patience and thanks for using WordPress.com.”
I’ll keep you posted!
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Something’s happening over there, because I just reloaded my Stats page, and my bloggers are back! Hurray!!!!!
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Oh yes, I see that I have most of my followers showing now but not all! But it’s progress, yay 🙂
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Thanks for this Susan. Watch this space!
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$&&$#%&& WordPress gremlins at play I guess. I normally loose 3 to 5 a week. The only way I get them back is to wait for them to like or comment on my post. This just made me think though I need to print out a list from the blogs I follow and check it from time to time. Give it a day in your case it should work itself out.
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Ha! Gremlins indeed! Thanks Bob. That interesting, and good idea to print a list, I never thought of that! I still don’t have all my followers back, but hopefully it will be resolved, and good advice, always wise to give these things a day or two to get sorted out! Hope all is going well with you 🙂
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Having the same issue, hopefully they fix it soon!
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Oh dear, yes, let’s hope so! I’ve lost my email followers now!
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Well, spoke to soon…stats are back, but folks didn’t get my post this morning. Still working on that. (sigh) Thanks to your red alert, I wouldn’t have know anything was going on – just would have thought no one like my blog today! :,-(
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Gosh, that’s a good job you found that out! I must admit that I was experiencing some odd things on my blog earlier today and still am. I have to keep logging in and out for my comments to show up for instance. Hmmm, obviously those WordPress gremlins are on the rampage. Glad we can all support each other through this, I find it quite stressful 😦
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Hi Sherri. Me too! We’ll see what they can do about it. Blessings.
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Oh no, I’m sorry! I hope you get it sorted out soon! I just put up another post to say that I have now had the problem resolved. Definitely an issue with WordPress ‘gremlins’!! Keep me posted 🙂
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I thought I was the only one. Honestly, ever since I started the new site in March, my stats have been screwy. I will see new followers each day, but my stats stay static or go down…a ridiculous amount. Yesterday the number went down to 130, then up to 490 and comments were 230. I have a few 1,000 followers and around 1,700 comments. My numbers are still waaaayyyy off.
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Hi Wendy! There are definitely some gremlins about. It seems that in addition to many of us losing all our followers, there are just as many having the problems that you describe here. Come to think of it, I noticed something funny going on with my stats the day before the followers disappeared. I also lost all my comments. Some people who followed me way before have had to re-follow me I’ve noticed, which I do really appreciate 🙂 Thanks for letting me know and I hope that you can get this problem sorted out soon 🙂
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Hi Sherri – first time on your site and came over to check it out as I saw you liked one of my posts. I also noticed my stats dropped and see that others are having the same problem on WordPress.
Do you have any new information or a link we can go to in the forums for updates? Thanks for posting this. I wouldn’t have known. I just thought, like you, people didn’t like what I was writing but didn’t think that many would drop off so fast.
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Hi Pat! Many thanks for visiting me, I’ve just left a comment on your blog too! I know that a lot of us are having these ongoing problems with stats dropping right now and it seems to be a general problem with WordPress which I know they are working on. If I find a link I will post it. I hope they fix it soon, it is not helpful!
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Thanks, Sherri. I saw your comment and thank you for stopping by.
I still don’t see a fix on the recovery of my followers on WordPress. Makes me wonder if they really left??
If you find a good discussion in the forums or a link I’d sure appreciate you passing it along.
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Hi again Pat. Just now catching up with everything!
It seems from other comments that I’ve read that quite a few others are having this problem. I just took a look on the community forum to see if there was anything and came up with this thread: http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/my-follower-count-and-actual-number-of-followers-appear-to-be-different?replies=3
If you go on there and subscribe to the thread you will be able to keep tabs on what WordPress is doing about it. I’ll keep an eye on things too and hopefully this will soon get sorted out!
Hope this helps, have a great day 🙂
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Thanks for the WordPress forum link, Sherri. You’ve been a lot of help. I went in and left a comment so I’ll be added to the thread. Hope they get it resolved soon.
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Sherri – many thanks to Conrad (The Wine Wackers) who gave me another WordPress forum thread to report this issue on. It’s http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/followers-issue?replies=21#post-1440083.
I’m still having problems but maybe I’ll get some answers here. It sounds like they’re still investigating it as there are people still having stat follower issues.
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Oh that’s good of him. Let’s hope for some answers soon 🙂
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Yes – I’ll second that.
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I had quite the shock too when that happened to me. And that it still said 0 followers when I logged out and back in.
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Hello and thanks for dropping by. It really isn’t a pleasant feeling is it? I hope you got it all sorted out!
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I was rational enough to figure out that at least my friends would be too lazy to unsubscribe 😉
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Ha! I know what you mean, despite my shock some measure of rationality kicked in to save me from thinking the worst 🙂
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