How I Lost 4,993 RSS Subscribers Overnight

Not again. Google’s FeedBurner is experiencing a glitch as of the moment. I wonder what are they doing with their system. :evil: fyi

Thanks for these interesting fact, this means i don't have to look for my losses myself :)!

Looks like the stats are back to normal. I actually got a nice little jump in my feedburner stats today.

Well. it is fine and how do you keep it new always. :lol:

Well, It's back to normal now.

This explains the white flag, I had wondered what google was doing to ya. Hope it all gets worked out.

Looks like this has been fixed:
http://blogs.feedburner.com/feedburner/archives/20...

:cool: same here, i have been monitoring my feed for quite a while. they change all the time. it is a bot? I wonder. :grin:

Yeah, my feed count was cut in half this weekend. I was wondering what was going on. Thanks for the info.

Did everyone hear about the Google pagerank victim's buttons? I thought that was really funny, sort of pagerank victim's anonymous :lol:

This happened to me as well. I lost my 30% subscriber which never happened before. I was surprised to see the feed subscriber stat. in feedburner yesterday.

Great post, I lost 50% of my readers in one day and was wondering if it was from my latest DoS script but this clears things up a bit. Thanks!

With all the heat generated by the downgrading of PRs, this would have resulted in a lot more of heat except for this clarification. Thank God that it is just a mechanical problem and not something permanent!

I also noticed this on my blog - lost about 50 RSS subscribers overnight. I didn't panic because I figured it was just a temporary glitch - looks like I was right.

But now I know what the problem was - thank John! :)

If this is what could happen when one component of Google's services goes down, imagine if the entire Google system/network/universe goes down? :shock:

John - Thanks for posting this. I noticed this as well but I wasn't as quick to figure out the source for the drop in my subscriber count. I don't have the subscriber base that you do so my numbers aren't as dramatic as yours but any time you loose about 30% of your subscribers overnight its bound to raise some eyebrows. Especially your own.

thanks for posting this -- i was wondering why my subscribers suddenly dropped by almost half. glad to know it is not just happening to me.

I love the title because I"m sure it is what everyone was thinking for the last while. I noticed it earlier and was curious when I saw this post. Just a SLIGHT difference.

You are not the only one...
http://www.kedoa.com/blog/web/widgetbucks-and-feed...

Seems like this happens to my blog often, I lost half my RSS in one day?
Click for Nick..How to keep a Business Running... :oops:

For some reason, I never noticed the 'FeedBurner Email Subscriptions' until today. Is this a recent addition to the graph, or just my own tom-foolery?

You win some, and you loose some.

The best part is: there are always NEW and much more interested, vibrant, energetic people out there who will discover our blogs and websites as long as we target the good niches out there.

Good luck everyone. :-)

I lost 51% about 800 RSS Subscribers

http://adsense-tw.com/archives/892

Lol@ "How Google is trying to play GOD on the Internet"!!!!! :lol:

I blogged this earlier in my "RSS meltdown" post:
http://www.seopher.com/articles/rss_meltdown__ever...

Darren Rowse lost like 15,000 subscribers - although things should be back to normal tomorrow.

I think this also makes it tough for directory blogs who considers RSS subscribers as one criteria to rank them.

Finally! Someone is standing up to the big guys. Got this link from Daniel's Daily Blog. I like it. Count me in.
Those of you who are tired of being "hamstrung" by the big guys might want to check it out.
www.courtneytuttle.com/2007/11/01/blogging-zoom-coup-against-media/ :razz: :evil: Google

They were fake numbers anyways, multiple subscriptions to the same person. How many were new subscribes John? If I am wrong with my thinking I am very sorry. It still was awesome to see that kinda of growth anyways.

I was affected too, let's hope they remedy this situation...a few PR bitchslaps outta do it! :razz:

I was wondering how this happend

I noticed a big change today and my RSS is not big enough to bother showing yet. Now I know I am not the only one.
I think Feedcatcher may be one of those unreliable and hence bad sites. They should get their PR knocked down. :)

Thanks for posting this info. Mine did the same, but I didn't think much of it. lol. Now I know

its just a short term thing, not a big deal at all

It's happening all over, many blogs experiencing this. ProBlogger had the same problem too.

Same thing here ... amazing how a Google owned service can fail to report correct numbers for its own Feedreader ;-)

wow, i saw your rss numbers before the post! glad you spotted the issue :)

I almost had a heart attach this morning when my RSS numbers dropped by almost 50%. Then I caught up with all the posts around the blogosphere from overnight and saw several people were reporting the problem. Phew! :)

you should try to take over the internet like google! Google hates you very much mr chow! you need to do an evil john chow attack on them ... lol

Thanks for posting this. The same thing happened to my subscriber numbers. Glad to know it wasn't just me!