How I Beat TechCrunch for the Second Time
Blogging January 22nd, 2009
First time I beat TechCrunch was in July 2006:
…their Feedburner subscription base grew almost 100% overnight. But it pales in comparison to my 2.5million % growth rate … yes, I went from 200 or so to 51k. Jeff Clavier did quite well, too, at 56k, but hey Jeff, I am catching up!
Too bad it was due to a Netvibes glitch, and once they fixed it, my readership fell back to – well, normal levels.
Today I am winning again: TechCrunch has 0 –yes zero – subscribers, while I have 1141. 
This time the culprit is Feedburner, which chucked the subscriber stats to zero for many blogs, including TechCrunch, while I lucked out, and only “lost” about half my subscribers. Over @ CloudAve we were less lucky, the migration to Google’s new setup cost about 85% of our subscriber base, but that still beats zero…
Yet it’s a Pyrrhic victory, which I hope won’t last – Feedburner (Google) needs to pull their act together.
Tags: blog feeds, blog stats, Blogging, feedburner, Google, rss, techcrunch
Zoli Erdos
And I thought I was the only one that lost 50% of his audience…
Now that I need to use Google Analytic, I feel like at SAP – I have access to all this info that I did not want to access in the first place, but if I want to customized it, I need to build a custom report, which is in BETA…
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