Yes, removal is right. Without an ever-present and in-your-face caveat, it amounts to lying to the user. And that's wrong. We can’t expect a new user to interpret “26 followers” as anything other than “26 followers”. And the chance that 26 followers (or whatever number shows at a given time) is the *actual* number of followers is going to be extremely low—not that we could ever be sure of the number anyway.