FeedBurner Loses Half Your Subscribers

Blogging, SaaS August 15th, 2008

Check your FeedBurner stats, but don’t worry too much: no, there was no mass exodus, you did not lose more than half your subscribers overnight.

There’s a simple explanation: FeedBurner is missing Google FeedFetcher stats- that’s the number of users who read your blog in Google Reader.  Last time I reported the same, Google Reader represented about 40% of my readership- apparently now it’s about 60%. 

Ironically it happens on the day when FeedBurner is in the news for launching  AdSense for feeds.

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8 Comments to “FeedBurner Loses Half Your Subscribers”

  1. Jason Boom | August 15th, 2008 at 11:10 am

    That is pretty funny it would happen today. Thanks for confirming my suspicions.

  2. Jennifer (Et Tu?) | August 15th, 2008 at 1:24 pm

    Thank you for posting this! I was sitting here scratching my head, looking at my last post thinking, “Was that just really offensive or something?” :) Thanks for putting my mind at ease.

  3. Technorati, Feedburner Suffer Technical Difficulties | August 15th, 2008 at 8:24 pm

    [...] has dramatically reduced reported subscriptions across a range of blogs, including The Inquisitr. Zoli Erdos reports that FeedBurner is missing Google FeedFetcher stats, the number of users who read a blog in Google [...]

  4. steveballmer | August 17th, 2008 at 6:54 am

    You won’t have to suffer with this much longer, we are developing ZuneBurner! It’s much better.

  5. Zoli Erdos | August 17th, 2008 at 7:39 pm

    Oh, you’re preparing for a Zune Burning? :-)

  6. adsense feed : bel casino | LaRadice | August 19th, 2008 at 11:58 am

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  7. David Bradley | August 19th, 2008 at 1:23 pm

    I’ve covered the Feedburner Myth on sciencetext.com

    http://www.sciencetext.com/the-feedburner-myth.html

    It would be so nice if these feedcounts could be stable. I saw mine plummet to 1500-ish at the weekend but today it’s showing an all-time high of 3202!

  8. Dan Tanner | August 23rd, 2008 at 1:02 pm

    We lost 50% of our feed stats. Removed them completely for now.

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