26
Nov
2007

I swear Feedburner is on crack

Written by Sean P Aune  |  under Internet, Technology

I love the idea of being able to see how many people are subscribing to the RSS feed, but it sure would be nice if I could rely on Feedburner to be accurate.

Maybe it’s this inaccurate with everyone, but somehow I doubt people subscribe and unsubscribe from my feed quite at the speed Feedburner implies.   Let’s just look at a week.

  • 11/18 - 22
  • 11/19 - 21
  • 11/20 - 26
  • 11/21 - 26
  • 11/22 - 25
  • 11/23 - 28
  • 11/24 - 25
  • 11/25 - 30

I understand this is a free service and all, but it should would be nice if it could at least be consistent.  It is possible people are jumping on-and-off my feeds the way this shows, but it seems unlikely with this small of a user base.

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  1. SeanPAune.com » Blog Archive » Anyone Know An Accurate RSS Mesuring Device?  |  January 27th, 2008 at 4:20 pm #

    [...] This isn’t the first time that I’ve suspected the RSS feed service, Feeburner, of being on crack. As you can see from the screen shot on the right, no two days in a row show the exact same number. [...]

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