Slashed Feedburner Counter – No Need to Panic

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

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9 Responsesto “Slashed Feedburner Counter – No Need to Panic”

  1. Eli says:

    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! :)

  2. charles says:

    Mine too from 10 down to 6. hehehe. :) :D

  3. McBilly says:

    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.

  4. charles says:

    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.

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  6. McBilly says:

    Did you compare it with yesterday’s stat count? :)

  7. charles says:

    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.

  8. Amy says:

    mine dropped from 13 to 7 :(

  9. Brown Baron says:

    I actually thought there was a “Feed Subscribers Union” strike going on hehe. That was one scary glitch.

  10. McBilly says:

    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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