FeedBlitz Bug Gets JohnTP.com 2540 Extra Readers!
Just noticed that this blog has 5484 readers today! Now I know something has to be wrong as I had only 2944 readers yesterday. I checked a few other blogs to see if they had a similar increase in their feed count and found that Problogger.net has 100k readers today! Yesterday I think the blog had only around 44k readers.
I thought that it was caused by a bug in FeedBurner, but actually its a bug in FeedBlitz.
Some readers are reporting a spike in reported subscribers that don’t match the actual count in FeedBlitz. We’re trying to get to the bottom of the issue right now. It isn’t a spam attack or anything unpleasant like that, probably just a previously unknown defect (ok, a bug) somewhere in the code. Updates will follow as and when.
I guess the bug is now fixed and tomorrow we may see the actual feed count. Was your blog hit by the FeedBlitz bug?
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Posted on January 18th, 2008 | Category: Blogging |
David Bradley
January 18, 2008 at 2:05 pm
I saw a spike to. It happened the day after Sciencebase broke through the 3000 mark. I had 4154 RSS subscribers just for one day! Back to a reasonable 3138 now, a figure with which I am happy, for now.
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JohnTP
January 18, 2008 at 2:15 pm
I still see 4154 readers for ScienceBase.
David Bradley
January 18, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Narrh, it’s definitely dropped, unfortunately. I think it depends on where you are in the world as to when you see Feedburner updates. It’s usually 8am GMT here. And, I did a refresh on my count graphic just after that and it was down to 3138. That’s still 2-3 hundred up on the previous week’s average
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Madhur Kapoor
January 18, 2008 at 3:36 pm
It didnt happen with me.
JohnTP
January 18, 2008 at 8:35 pm
David Bradley- Yea,it shows 3138 now.
Madhur- Are you using FeedBlitz?
Heather
January 21, 2008 at 4:22 pm
We spiked from 573 yesterday to 1200 today. Thursday we had 569 and spiked to 666. We’ve been growing a lot over the past few months, but I’ll believe our usual 1% steps, not this.
David Bradley
January 22, 2008 at 1:37 pm
It’s happened again. Yesterday I saw a jump from 3138 to 3505, which could be genuine, but this morning I’m seeing 5852, which has to be a glitch. Unless yesterday’s post on periodic tables captured the attention of thousands of new readers on Sciencebase.com, which I somehow doubt very much.
If Feedburner et al don’t get this fixed soon, they’re going to lose users as bloggers really don’t want to be reporting silly subscriber counts.
db
Nirmal
February 7, 2008 at 3:50 pm
I dont use Feedblitz, so didnt happen to me, but I noticed the issue in other blogs.