I was going to google something on my blog this morning and was shocked when my feedburner was showing 1159 subscribers. Wha?! Had I missed the important milestone of 1000 subscribers?
I logged into feedburner and verified that yesterday it was only at 957. Hmm.
Unless feedburner made a big change in how they count subscribers I'm going to assume that this is an anomaly. I doubt there was a sudden surge of people wanting to all subscribe to my blog yesterday ;-)
update: many others are seeing inflated #'s as well.
Congrats! Perhaps it is a tipping point, and you are on your way to become the next TechCrunch.
Posted by: Kent Shaffer | January 17, 2008 at 10:12 AM
It seems that Feedburner is having issues today, specifically FeedBlitz. I noticed that too. My blog feed and it's comment feed is fine, it's right where it should be. But I have 2 other feeds I track, one for my tech arts site at church and another smaller blog I have and they are both sky high. Tech Arts went from single digits to 79 and my other blog went from a low number to 675! Both have very inflated FeedBlitz numbers, yet Feedblitz stats do not reflect that.
However, if you truly broke 1000, congrats! That's a big milestone that I'm aiming for as well.
Posted by: Jim Walton | January 17, 2008 at 10:21 AM
I just noticed that my FeedBlitz number for CTM is not included by Feedburner today. That would explain why my Feedburner number is not inflated. There's some talk on the feedburner forum of whacked out numbers today but i don't see a response from Feedburner yet.
Posted by: Jim Walton | January 17, 2008 at 10:28 AM
Ditto! I noticed it too... Just on a smaller scale!
Posted by: Chris Reeder | January 17, 2008 at 11:01 AM
Your blog was recently featured in Google Reader's suggested blogs list. That's why I subscribed to it two days ago. Maybe a bunch of people saw it there and decided to join?
Posted by: Ryan | January 17, 2008 at 01:50 PM
Some of us are old fashioned and just check your blogsite each day directly instead of feedburner. So your numbers are likely much higher than feedburner shows. ;)
Posted by: T.R. | January 18, 2008 at 08:25 AM
Jason - same thing happened to me. Jumped from 1600'ish to over 2100. Still high today. Did they start pulling in a new group of subscribers they weren't recognizing before?
Posted by: Tim Stevens | January 18, 2008 at 04:10 PM