I've been puzzling over a drop in subscribers. Having a look at my FeedBurner stats, I see that the drop seems to be accounted for by a sudden large reduction in subscribers from BlogLines and NetVibes. I appear to have lost these subscribers over night. Is this a real drop in subscribers that is only now trickeling down through the reporting mechanisms that FeedBurner uses? Or is it just a bug?


Isn't it possible that Netvibes and/or Bloglines moved to consume your feed once and then distribute it to those who consume it via their services?
That way it only shows up as one subscriber for each service whereas the truth may be that there are thousands pulling it off say Netvibes?
Posted by: Flemming Madsen | July 08, 2007 at 09:35 AM
Flemming,
I don't believe that is how the system works. My understanding is that services like NetVibes report to FeedBurner how many subscribers they have each time they pull the feed.
Posted by: Matthew Hurst | July 08, 2007 at 11:34 AM