Glitch in Feedburner Causes Blogs to Lose Subscribers

Posted by Saad Hamid on November 5, 2007

feed-count-fall.gifToday was a pretty horrible day for those bloggers who use Feedburner to collect their blog subscribers statistics. Feedburner is used almost on every blog out there and that is because of its good syndication tools and a high profile company name on the backend i.e. Google.

However today was not a good day for Feedburner users at all. There was a little glitch in the Feedburner system which caused all sites and blogs to lose a very big number of their feed subscribers.

Here is the feed subscribers pie chart for Yesterday

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and Here is the feed subscribers pie chart for Today

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If you compare both these pie charts you will notice that the pie chart for Today is not showing the Google Feedfetcher subscriber count and thats where the main glitch lies.

Feedburner has not counted Google Reader feed stats for today and is therefore showing a fall in the feed subscribers count of every blog. I hope this glitch fixes soon because feed subscribers count is a modern status symbol for blogs which tells about the popularity and remote readership of a blog.

  • I love how everyone is making this out to be the Black Friday of blogging.

    Everyone calm down. Stats will return tomorrow, and everything will be fine. This type of thing happens a couple times a year.
  • So thats the reason why my readers count fluctuating in a huge number. Thanks dude :)
  • Yep mine were down to 8 from 20!!

    Just means I can celebrate a double in subscribers when it fixes :)
  • I blogged about this as well. According to the latest entry on the Feedburner blog, Google Feedfetcher is back and operational so the feed stats should be accurate today.
  • Everyone one (including me) was just kind of over reacting over this. Glitches in the Feedburner system is not something new and has been observed previously a lot times.

    However there is nothing to worry about for now as the Google Reader feed stats are back online and Feedburner is giving the right number of subscribers.
  • Hehe I'll admit I was surprised when I saw the numbers. I remember looking at a lot of blogs just to make sure it happened to everyone and not just me lol.
  • Yep I was also worried for a while yesterday due to sudden drop in my feedcount...Thank Google that it has been restored today
  • Looks like the glitch is back. Count is down today as well.
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