Are you using FeedBurner to manage subscriptions to your blog? Check out your subscriber numbers today—they could be a lot higher. There appears to be a glitch today affecting many blogs, sending up feed counts by as much as tens of thousands!
Sadly, the counts probably aren’t correct. The problem looks to be FeedBlitz. They’ve acknowledged the error on their blog.
How can you tell if your popularity has grown or if there’s just a mistake? Go to FeedBurner to your feed’s dashboard. Click the “See more about your subscribers” link below the Feed Subscribers chart. If the pie graph that appears has a big piece for FeedBlitz (especially when compared to the day before), your counts will probably be back to “normal” tomorrow.
Not all blogs have been affected. Mine isn’t (too bad). So, while the error will be corrected soon, why not celebrate your current all-time high?
5 replies on “Use FeedBurner? Check it out!”
a few days ago i logged onto feedburner only to find out that i was at 0 on all my subscriptions….i looked in the forums and other people had the same heart-dropping moment as i did…it’s back now. mine seems pretty normal right now but maybe it’s all fixed?
I think I remember hearing about that one, too, but as far as I know neither affected MamaBlogga’s feeds, so I can’t speak to them first hand. I do remember one day in November I was shocked to see my feed numbers halved, but that was an error, too.
I use it, but I don’t pay any attention to it. My blog isn’t that important anyway.
I saw this news on Problogger, too. His subscribers hit 100,000. It didn’t affect me, though. Darn, it would have been a good screenshot.
Ha! Well that explains it : ) I figured it must have been some sort of a glitch.