Steemit.com Followers / Following Count Discrepancy

Project Information

Repository:

Project Name: Condenser
Publisher (if applicable): Steemit.com

Expected behavior

Noticed a jump in followers and, after investigating, determined the counts displayed on Steemit.com are different than what may be obtained via the RPC API or other front end interfaces. This has been confirmed on a couple users including myself.

Actual behavior

Expectation is for follower / following count to generally coincide across the various blockchain interfaces.

How to reproduce

Navigate to your profile page on @username and compare to another interface. See GIF.

Browser/App version: Microsoft Edge / Google Chrome
Operating system: Windows 10

Recording Of The Bug

GitHub Account

https://github.com/anthonyadavisii

Update: @pjau has submitted GH issue for the following. See below.

https://github.com/steemit/condenser/issues/3135

I have checked the following nodes and counts are normal.

'https://api.steemit.com'
'https://steemd-appbase.steemit.com'
'wss://steemd-appbase.steemit.com'

Update #2: @pjau figured the nodes that steemit.com is using https://api-int.steemit.com so I checked with Beem producing the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/sfr/miniconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/beem/account.py", line 777, in get_followers
    name_list = [x['follower'] for x in self._get_followers(direction="follower", limit=limit)]
  File "/home/sfr/miniconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/beem/account.py", line 823, in _get_followers
    followers = self.steem.rpc.get_followers(query, api='follow')['followers']
TypeError: list indices must be integers or slices, not str