After this morning I had to take a break because this was driving me nuts. I just signed back in and noticed (I am on IE 9) that at the top on my browser bar after the url and the little search icon there is a new round blue circle with a slash through it. When I rolled my cursor over it it says "some content is filtered on this site". When I click it a pop up says "turn off ActiveX Filtering", when I did this on my blog, all of my followers appeared again. Try it maybe it will work for you too. Again I use IE 9 so it may not work for everyone.