Connecting the dots ...
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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That is pretty funny it would happen today. Thanks for confirming my suspicions.
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.
You won’t have to suffer with this much longer, we are developing ZuneBurner! It’s much better.
Oh, you’re preparing for a Zune Burning? 🙂
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!
We lost 50% of our feed stats. Removed them completely for now.