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If 500k users switched in 48h, 3 months before the shut down, how many users the Reader actually has? It seems it must be a lot.
by mixedbit 14y ago
If 500k users switched in 48h, 3 months before the shut down, how many users the Reader actually has? It seems it must be a lot.
- jemka 14y agoDo you think all of the 500k were actual Google Reader users? It's possible a portion are jumping on the hivemind's bandwagon. Not discrediting the cause, just saying that some people like to join causes for the sake of joining causes.
- brown9-2 14y agoExactly - how do they know which product their users were using before signing up for Feedly?
- julius 14y agoThey let you import your google reader data.
- mixedbit 14y agoBut what cause do you join by signing up for Feedly? I understand that even people that did not use Google Reader may be upset that the company drops a service that is based on an open standard, but I can't see why such people would react by subscribing to some other RSS reader.
- BHSPitMonkey 14y agoI think the "Google Reader users" claim is because they know how many new users imported their data from Google Reader.
- hamax 14y agoMaybe a great number of them are people like me who haven't actively used google reader in years but are willing to give rss readers another go after reading about them non stop for the last few days. Just a speculation.
- sp332 14y agoYeah, there are at least 24 million subscribers. Not sure how many are currently active but the number seems to have gone up in the last few years. http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/03/google-reader-data-points.html http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/03/google-reader-data-...