Comments on: Feedburner Subscriber Counters – A Glitch?

By: drake

drake — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:21:07 +0000

One way to figure out if someone’s inflating their numbers is to check the number of comments they get per post. A high subscriber count and low number of comments would be suspicious except under certain circumstances, like if you write a blog about chronic shyness.

By: jm

jm — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:28:14 +0000

It’s happened again to me. Yesterday and today. Google Feed Fetcher missing almost entirely from the pie.

By: charles

charles — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 10:09:12 +0000

Google’s FeedBurner has acted up again. tsk tsk tsk. I wonder what are they doing with their system?

By: Dana

Dana — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:00:58 +0000

Is it not ironic that Google’s FeedBurner is losing Google’s Feed Fetcher? I still find it funny that you need a workaround to display the FeedBurner headline animator in Gmail.

But then, I am easily amused.

By: Leon

Leon — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 04:35:16 +0000

Thanks for sorting that out. I was wondering what was the deal with that. I thought my readers had deserted me!

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:07:35 +0000

I lost over half of my subscribers because of this, it was terrifying until I found out it was just a glitch.

By: charles

charles — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 08:15:02 +0000

Feedburner RSS stats going back to normal now in some sites. :). Other sites will follow. :)

By: Starfeeder

Starfeeder — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:11:12 +0000

My feedburner stats are down by half as well :(

By: jen

jen — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 05:44:20 +0000

Wow, that’s a huge slump. For those of us who don’t have that many subscribers to start with a drop of two thirds is a lot. I’m glad you told us otherwise I would have freaked out, especially as I moved blog providers and hosts on the weekend.

By: Ivy

Ivy — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 05:03:17 +0000

Just to check – is anyone having drops in their Google analytics stats as well?

By: Angela

Angela — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 03:42:50 +0000

Ok, I feel better now. I thought my fwiends maybe didn’t like me anymore. :-(

Not that I’m happy this happened. Just relieved this is the explanation as to why my subscriber count dropped considerably overnight.

Checked mine after reading this and it is the Google readers that are missing from my count, too.

By: Daily Ugly

Daily Ugly — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 23:26:36 +0000

I only lost some 10% of the subscribers I got from my other blog. But then again it might be because only 10% are google readers.

By: Alex Blackwell

Alex Blackwell — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 22:51:17 +0000

Thanks for getting all of the information. I though my readers thought my writing was worthless – what a relief.

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 21:23:30 +0000

You are not the only one…

http://www.kedoa.com/blog/web/widgetbucks-and-feedburner-both-playing-up-today/

By: Dean @ Technical Itch

Dean @ Technical Itch — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:00:09 +0000

It’s like taking a trip down memory lane seeing all these website chicklets showing lower numbers. Makes you remember how sites used to be a few years ago :-)

By: Gizmo

Gizmo — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 19:23:17 +0000

yeah mine stats dropped about 50% in two of my three blogs

By: Roberta

Roberta — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 18:44:42 +0000

I know that I don’t have a whole lot of visitors, but the ones that I have, I’d like to keep :)

By: ChrisB

ChrisB — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 18:41:00 +0000

Feedburner’s blog now says there was a problem with the Google feedfetcher stats this morning.

By: Tejvan Pettinger

Tejvan Pettinger — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 18:37:55 +0000

Funny thing is I just, went to blogging fingers and saw that the RSS subscribers had halved from 200 to 100. – I thought people don’t hang around when a blog is sold. :)

But, given the importance of RSS subscribers for selling blogs, it is significant for bloggers

By: Mauro C.

Mauro C. — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 18:26:16 +0000

I don’t have to much subscribers but the same happened to me: 114 to 70!!!
As you say Darren, maybe “it’s just a glitch in Feedburner’s system “.
I hope so :)