What Is Follower Backfill? How to Recover Missed New-Contact Counts Step by Step

Follower backfill is a compensation mechanism that re-counts genuinely missed new contacts into tickets and channel reports when the counter was offline, disconnected, or never triggered—this article shows how to tell a real miss from a definition gap, then recover data by confirming the time window, reconnecting for automatic backfill, re-calculating ticket periods, and manually backfilling from exports, plus attribution checks and team record-keeping rules.