The Feedburner Status Blog (
http://feedburnerstatus.blogspot.com/) is
a great resource for situations like this.
Here's what may be going on - it seems to be affecting my blog, too:
http://feedburnerstatus.blogspot.com/2010/05/google-feedfetcher-subscriber-counts.html
"Issue: Subscriber counts may appear lower than normal in publisher
reports because of missing Google FeedFetcher reports. All
subscribers are still receiving the feed, this only effects the
reporting number in the publisher dashboard and the awareness API.
There are no issues with feed delivery for text feeds or podcasts.
"Status: Currently, we rely on the Google FeedFetcher user-agent to
report to us the number of subscribers for a feed. This number is
calculated from a mix of Google properties including Google Reader and
iGoogle. We will be changing our method of calculating subscribers to
use internal Google APIs between FeedBurner and the processes that run
Google FeedFetcher so this number is more accurate in the future.
This post will be updated when that is running in production."
On May 19, 6:29 pm, Tracy Iglesias wrote:
> I had 1338 last night and now it reads 338, please fix this ASAP!!!!!