Huge sudden drop in Subscriber count overnight !!

[Abhijeet]

My Feedburner subscriber count dropped from 978 to 535 overnight. The
main culprit seems to be the Google Feedfetcher which dropped by 400
subscribers. Definitely a technical glitch. Can the Feedburner team
help ?

My feed url: http://feeds.feedburner.com/jeetblog

Thanks,

Abhijeet

[Shilpan9166]

I have same problem. My Original Feed URL is http://www.successsoul.com/feed.

I had 1218 subscribers on Tuesday. On that day, I turned off Feedsmith
plugin mistakenly. Next day my subscription count went down to 977.
Today, it is showing 650 with feedfetcher count missing(489).

I have turned on Feedsmith plugin. Is this due to the plugin or is
there an issue with feedburner? It's hard to believe that I have lost
50% of the count.

Please help.

Warm regards,
Shilpan

[Nezua]

Yup me too. Down from roughly 520 to 298. Yay.

Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/theunapologeticmexican

On Aug 15, 7:01 am, Shilpan9166 wrote:
> I have same problem. My Original Feed URL ishttp://www.successsoul.com/feed.

[Denise]

Mine dropped by 25% since yesterday, too. Frustrating!

[SimpleMom]

Yep, me too. Mine went from 2705 to 1501 today. Grr. Anyone from
Feedburner on this?

[Michael]

Same problem here, from 212 to 167: http://feeds.feedburner.com/OrangeCrateArt

Thanks for looking at this problem,

Michael

[SovSoc]

I've also encountered a drop of around 50% to all my subscribers
overnight. Would appreciate any updates as to when this will be
corrected.

[RobGlazebrook]

I also saw a huge drop in subscribers overnight. Yesterday, I had
1,469 subscribers. This morning, Feedburner is saying I have 611.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/cssnewbie/

I'm most annoyed by this because I display my subscriber count on my
website to encourage other readers to subscribe. And obviously, a 60%
drop in readership does not inspire confidence!

[sugarlaws]

Same with mine, dropped from 466 to 342 -- SO annoying! I display my
subscriber count on my website too, ugh.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/sugarlaws

Katy

[Matthew Cornell]

Same problem here. 1500 -> 750. Nearly wet my pants. ;-)

matt

On Aug 15, 9:42 am, Abhijeet wrote:

[Peggy]

Glad to know it's not just me. I have two different feeds, both are
down about 50% today.

My feeds:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/BiologyinScienceFiction
http://feeds.feedburner.com/WomenInScience

[Nezua]

well its nice to know they are on top of it.

[geodude-david]

And Feedburner is silent as usual.

> > My feeds:http://feeds.feedburner.com/BiologyinScienceFictionhttp://feeds.feedb...

[Mel]

Could the drop be attributed to the Olympics? Other news?

I would guess that many people have shifted their web usage because of
the Olympics and other news.

[A. Jericho]

No. As far as I can ascertain, the drop is attributed to Feedburner
not counting Google Reader subscribers for the day.

My reader count in Google Reader was 37 that day; Feedburner showed
Google Feedfetcher subscriptions as 4 (indicating that it was probably
counting subscribers via iGoogle, but not via Google Reader).
Sliiiight mismatch. And since Google Reader seems to account for
around half the subscribers to any particular blog these days, that
was probably it.

Here's a (very very) short article from ProBlogger on how to count
your readers through Google Reader directly:

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/10/15/google-reader-reveal-subscriber-numbers-to-feeds/

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