[Bug]: Mismatched Subscriber Count in Publish & Subscribe Blocks

[vishnugopal]

Quick summary

For my site vishnugopal.com, there seems to be a mismatch between the number of followers/subscribers I have and the count it displays when I hit Publish or add a Subscribe block:

Publish:

Subscribe block:

But count of subscribers/followers is actually much less:

I've been having this blog since ages (2003 at least) so I'm not sure if it's something I did on the way deliberately that made things like this. My one hunch was that it adds up the number of my Twitter followers (2,975 Followers) since I have that connected, but I couldn't make that arithmetic work.

Steps to reproduce

This appears only at vishnugopal.com so I'm not sure how to reproduce this.

What you expected to happen

NA

What actually happened

NA

Browser

Google Chrome/Chromium, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Apple Safari, iOS Safari, Android Chrome

Context

Internal Testing

Platform (Simple, Atomic, or both?)

Atomic

Other notes

No response

Reproducibility

Consistent

Severity

One

Available workarounds?

No response

Workaround details

No response

[TimBroddin]

Deployed to wpcom in D89641-code & D89833-code

Waiting on PR for Jetpack: https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/pull/26751/

Communication with HE: pdDOJh-Sv-p2

[eduardozulian]

👋 Just wanted to bring attention that customer feedback is being shared in p7DVsv-fDf

[TimBroddin]

Hi @eduardozulian, thanks for mentioning this. Started discussion here: p1666295848198789-slack-C02TCEHP3HA

[cuemarie]

The Publish count and Subscribe block do indeed include social media followers. This was removed, but ultimately reverted in D90735-code

Users now have the ability to opt to include/exclude social media followers in their subscriber count. See public guide for more: https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/subscribe-block/#block-settings