Update: Well, it looks like all has been explained — Feedburner *isn’t* picking up Google’s feedfetcher … apparently all will be well Monday morning.
Well, for reasons that have yet to be explained, my Feedburner subscribers were just halved. I actually noticed it first on Mike Arrington’s Techcrunch, as his numbers are “way down” too — from 600k to about 300k; however, it seems like its everwhere else as well. Mat Ingram’s blog: 1600 to 1100, and Stan Shroeder’s FranticIndustries down to 1200 from 2000. (I’d quote others, but those are the only ones whose pre-drop numbers I recall).
While I don’t care as much as much about my subscriber count as I used to, I will admit that I’m still interested in the whys. Let’s all remember that Feedburner is now owned by Google, who has been in the news for all kinds of things; second of all, Google has a history of being rather opaque with their reasonings. Thirdly, everyone’s stats actually *doubled* about 8 months ago ago pre-Google ownership as Feedburner was starting to recognize Google reader stats.
Is the halving a bug, or is there a new downward adjustment that we’re not being told about?
{but I suspect that in a few hours everyone *will* be buzzing about?}
November 4th, 2007 at 10:48 am | Permalink
Yeah - I noticed mine roughly halved this morning but given it was the weekend and I had noticed that Feedburner sub counts tend to drop off over Sat/Sun I didn’t really think anything of it.
November 4th, 2007 at 10:52 am | Permalink
Mine’s down from 2,200 to around 1,200 - more than the average weekend drop.
Still, if it’s the same for everyone else, then it’s all relative, and nothing to think too much about.
November 4th, 2007 at 11:11 am | Permalink
Mine dropped by over half. From what I can tell, it looks like the Google Feedfetcher stats are the ones not showing up.
Major glitch for Google/Feedburner.
November 4th, 2007 at 11:43 am | Permalink
Yep I went down by half also….
November 4th, 2007 at 1:35 pm | Permalink
Yeah looks like a specific reader type has dropped off - my photo blog, which has far fewer subscribers, only lost 1 or 2 (
November 4th, 2007 at 1:38 pm | Permalink
Oops.
Anyways - in the meantime an update has come out:
http://blogs.feedburner.com/feedburner/archives/2007/11/sunday_subscriber_count_drop.php
November 4th, 2007 at 3:05 pm | Permalink
And so it has — thanks for the update, Ryan! :)
November 4th, 2007 at 4:38 pm | Permalink
I noticed that my subscriber number had dropped by a third this morning but even after the update none came back. Maybe it’s a sign that I spend too much time conference hopping and blogging lately :)
November 4th, 2007 at 5:00 pm | Permalink
@anne: I suspect that the correction will happen by tomorrow … my numbers only change daily, anyway. ;)