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Could someone please explain what's goin' on here? I don't know the difference between feedburner and friendfeed. I don't use either. Does this mean that som
by fnid 17y ago
Could someone please explain what's goin' on here? I don't know the difference between feedburner and friendfeed. I don't use either.
Does this mean that some people aren't able to see the content they want? What exactly did Google pull the plug on?
Or is this simply the case where Feedburner isn't telling people that people using Friendfeed are reading their stuff?
- prodigal_erik 17y agoApparently the latter. HTTP has no standard for reporting "this request is on behalf of n users". Some RSS aggregators have started kludging it into their User-Agent header, but some don't, and abandoned subscriptions are still counted for a while, and nobody's auditing them, so all these stats are wrong by some unknown amount anyway.
- timdorr 17y agoGoogle/Feedburner (an RSS filtering service) would track FriendFeed (a Twitter-like service that lets you subscribe ot others' content) subscribers as a part of your total subscriber count. Now it appears they don't do this any more. This guy had his displayed subscriber count drop by over half as a result.
- PStamatiou 17y ago"This guy had his displayed subscriber count drop by over half as a result." I think there is other stuff going on as well. he only has ~3400 friendfeed subscribers.. that doesn't explain going from 30,000 subscribers as reported by FeedBurner, to 11,000 overnight.