Worth running only if the portfolio is already worth arriving at, since the number is the easier half to fix.
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If your portfolio has two shots on it, a follower figure will not help and a sample will only make the mismatch clearer. The people who read this number on a design platform are usually checking whether you are active, and an account with a healthy count and nothing recent reads worse than one with a modest count and steady work. Fix the work first; the number is the easier half.
That the order finds your handle and that the figure updates where a visitor would see it. That is a narrow claim, and it is the only one being made. Twenty additions will not change how a studio reads your account, and expecting otherwise leads people to conclude a delivery failed when it worked exactly as described.
Take the figure beforehand, check it once from a signed out browser after the window has closed, and compare the two. If they differ, the route works. Whether you do anything with that is a separate decision, and stopping here is a perfectly sensible option.
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