Get follower counts is a WordPress ability from Jetpack — usable via Easy MCP AI, which connects Claude, ChatGPT, and any AI assistant to your site.
Install Free Plugin →Get follower counts
Read-onlyReturn a breakdown of follower counts across email, WordPress.com, comments, and Publicize.
Requires the Jetpack plugin on WordPress 6.9+. Abilities are registered by several bundled Jetpack packages (automattic/jetpack-backup, jetpack-connection, jetpack-forms, jetpack-stats) plus the main plugin's own registrars for Related Posts, Shortlinks, Sitemaps, Newsletter/Subscriptions, and Monitor. Permission requirements vary by ability — most gate on 'manage_options', 'jetpack_admin_page', or 'view_stats', while Forms abilities use 'edit_pages'. Backup abilities only register when a Backup product/plan is active; Sitemaps, Monitor, and Newsletter abilities only register when their respective module is turned on.
What it does
This ability answers 'how is my audience growing?' by composing three WordPress.com endpoints into one breakdown: total followers, the subset following by email, the subset following via WordPress.com, the subset following via comments, and a per-service breakdown of Publicize (social) followers. It uses the same partial-tolerant composition pattern as get-site-overview: a failing sub-call contributes a placeholder zero and is listed in an errors array rather than failing the whole response, and the ability only errors out if every sub-call fails.
See it in action
You ask your AI assistant
"How many followers do I have across email, WordPress.com, and social media?"
Returns
An object with total, email, wpcom, comment (integers), publicize (an object mapping service name to follower count), partial (boolean), and an optional errors array naming any sub-call that failed.
Permission
The current user must have the 'view_stats' capability.
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