Comments on: The Day Feedburner Stats Went Crazy

By: rubu

rubu — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:49:19 +0000

You would think, that a service such as FB, that is so well used and reviewed (not to mention dependent) upon the blogging community would want to keep its user base up to speed with developments and fixes.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:44:14 +0000

Darren and all,

Update:

If you’ve had it happen again, apparently it’s being caused by a bug in the code at Feedblitz, who do have a post about the problem right on their homepage, and who promise that all my lovely phantom readers will be gone by Wednesday.

(Non-phantoms always appreciated here.)

Regards,

Kelly

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 03:49:06 +0000

Hello, Darren,

Is it happening again today? Last week my subscribers jumped by over 3000% (yes, three thousand percent) on the 18th, then back down, boo-hoo, the next day… today up to over that same beautiful number of subscribers again, which, unless you personally sent your readers to me, is a fairly unlikely one-day jump… any update on what’s wrong with Feedburner? (Or is it the Maximum Customer Experience Blog’s lucky day?)

Feedburner’s blog is uselessly outdated, no help there.

Regards,

Kelly

By: engtech @ IDT

engtech @ IDT — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 04:57:00 +0000

I knew it was too good to be true.

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:37:31 +0000

I could go for 50,000 or so new readers myself. I figure if I had 50,000 subscribers and made $2 per subscriber I could go pro. Thats a nice thought anyway. :-)

By: Sarah (Real Life)

Sarah (Real Life) — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:24:30 +0000

OMGoodness. I have friends whose blog went from 35 to 554 in a couple of days. I was just saying to my husband yesterday, “How the heck did they get that many subscribers, and what am I doing wrong?”

Mine have been steadily climbing, so I don’t think I’ve been hit. That’s what I’m telling myself anyway.

By: JEMi

JEMi — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:37:13 +0000

you have no idea how sad this makes me

well.. no wonder – I looked at your 100k readers and shook my head saying to my self “My, that Darren Rowse…”

… I still say that though- this blog is amazing.

*sigh* thats ok though.. I appreciate my..very few subscribers :) I’m working on it

By: Online Empire

Online Empire — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:58:22 +0000

All of my sites that I have burner running on have gone through the roof. It looks good to new readers but anyone that follows blogging sites like this are sure to see through the large digits.

By: Rachel Keslensky

Rachel Keslensky — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:47:32 +0000

But, but… so my subscribers doubling overnight WASN’T REAL?!

… Wah… I really thought I went from 2 to 6 subscribers!

By: 993C4S

993C4S — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:50:25 +0000

Just posted this on the FB forum as well.

Is it me, or is the customer support from FB Non-Existent?

It’s pretty obvious that there is a MAJOR issue with FeedBurner going on over the last couple of days, but there has been little to no information provided to the hundreds of thousands of users.

I have seen a few posts on the forum boards (if you search for them) from a FB moderator, but that’s it? Am I missing something?

I for one am looking to know when things will be fixed and what the problem was/is. Otherwise, I think it may be time to look for another service.

Am I off base?

John
http://www.993C4S.com/wordpress

By: Brian Auer

Brian Auer — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:47:38 +0000

My Feedburner jump wasn’t as drastic as some of the others in the comments. I went from ~2300 to ~3300.

By: Sonia Simone

Sonia Simone — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:20:10 +0000

I keep checking to see if I can get a cool screen shot, but it doesn’t budge. :)

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:16:20 +0000

My stats doubled from 1 to 2 but hey it is still a 100% increase :) . I’ll take what I can get on my brand new blog.

Seriously though it is nice to know that I shouldn’t jump to conclusions if I see a significant increase.

By: CallCenterVet

CallCenterVet — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:45:32 +0000

Here’s an observation. I checked out my feedburner subscriber details and found that the glitch is actually coming from Feedblitz! I have my feedblitz subscribers reflected/included in my feedburner subscriber list. My feedlitz subscribers is about 94% of my total subscribers.

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:17:46 +0000

My counts gone from 46 to 50, I got really exceited I’m gutted now. ;)

By: Sangesh

Sangesh — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:49:40 +0000

Okie a small bug ;)

By: Kristen

Kristen — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:43:55 +0000

So I guess my measly 37 subscribers is due to a bug. Go figure…

By: Dr.Mani

Dr.Mani — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:06:32 +0000

EVEN with that, I’m barely scratching 107.

Oh well ;)

Dr.Mani

By: milton

milton — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:55:20 +0000

Awww man! I was over here celebrating the leap from 1 subscriber to 3. The smack of reality stings!

http://werehavingababies.blogspot.com

By: CallCenterVet

CallCenterVet — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:30:39 +0000

My Olympics Blog subscribers multiplied over 10 times... My Call Center Blog subscribers multiplied about 5 times... Now there's a positive error I'd like to see NOT corrected! LOL