Slashed Feedburner Counter - No Need to Panic

Feedburner Counter Slashed?
Another Google punishment? I don’t think so.

After receiving a message indicating a major drop of subscribers in the Feedburner Chicklet, I checked my own Feedburner count.

Just like everyone else’s, my feedburner subscribers also experienced a major drop. But it’s not a punishment from the big G, it’s just a glitch in the Feedburner system.

A lot of the big bloggers also experienced the drop but Problogger explains there is no need to worry as this is more likely a glitch. He mentions that the ‘Google Feedfetcher’ stats that are not showing up justifying the uniform 40-50% drop.

It has already happened before and was rectified the next day. Well, I sure hope so.

A big thanks to Charles for the heads up on this. :mrgreen:

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Comment by Eli Subscribed to comments via email
2007-11-04 19:16:07
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yep, I noticed that too.. But I did not worry.. I knew it was some kind of glitch on Feedburner’s side…

Imagine my 9 subscribers dropping to 4?! Nightmare! :)

Comment by charles Subscribed to comments via email
2007-11-04 19:40:14
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Mine too from 10 down to 6. hehehe. :) :D

 
Comment by McBilly
2007-11-04 20:48:06
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Haha. LOL at nightmare quote. :lol:

I also checked my feedburner stats for today compared to yesterday, and the Google Fetcher was also the stats that was gone. Which means this is definitely a glitch. Hehe.

 
 
Comment by charles Subscribed to comments via email
2007-11-04 21:02:07
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I have just checked my feedburner stats, strange but my Google Fetcher stat does appear and with only 1 subscriber. wow what a shame. hehehe.

Comment by McBilly
2007-11-04 21:30:27
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Did you compare it with yesterday’s stat count? :)

Comment by charles Subscribed to comments via email
2007-11-04 21:36:26
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My mistake. Feedfetcher-Google; (+http://www.google.com/feedfetcher.html)is the one in my FB stats.
Google Feedfetcher is different from Feedfetcher-Google. :) I thought they’re the same.

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2007-11-04 21:04:38
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Comment by Amy
2007-11-05 11:04:38
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mine dropped from 13 to 7 :(

 
Comment by Brown Baron
2007-11-06 10:41:36
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I actually thought there was a “Feed Subscribers Union” strike going on hehe. That was one scary glitch.

Comment by McBilly
2007-11-06 14:01:20
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Haha. I know what you mean by scary! My heart fell when I saw my subscribers dropped. I thought they unsubscribed because of my lousy posts. Haha :mrgreen:

 
 
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