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Friendfeed Adds RSS Stats Tracking
Friendfeed co-founder Kevin Fox has announced a new statistical addition to the Friendfeed service. Basically starting today you are now able to see how many people are subscribed to your RSS feed via Friendfeed. In the image below, you can see that “friendfeedagg” is now a listed feed service like Google Reader, NewsGator, etc. Fox is quick to note that no matter what the number is, more people may see your content in Friendfeed because of the “friend of friend” function which takes something I “like” and shares it with my subscribers.
I tested the functionality this morning using my Feedburner account and it showed 17 subscribers. I’d like to thank each of you individually for subscribing! Your gift is on the way.
Rob Diana takes a look at the numbers and wonders if they even matter. Diana would prefer the counts are removed. He saw huge jumps in subscriber numbers for his blog along with the blog of Louis Gray. Sure makes my boost of 17 subscribers look tiny!
I was on Twitter regarding this early today – my ’subscribers’ jumped by 167 which, although nice, I wasn’t to sure.
Cheers for passing this on.
Allen
Based on your image, it looks like you should have received almost 12000 new subscribers in your stats. Maybe something else is not updated properly. Adding 12000 would likely have an effect greater than just a jump of 17.
[...] overall statistics, some say that very little difference is made. At some level this is true, but it does finally account what some folks use to keep up on new posts into the numbers. These numbers do make a difference, [...]
Rob – that is the sample image from FF not my numbers
I had a 2,500 subscriber boost today. I figured Feedburner was broken. This explains it.
Well, this answers my question as to why my subscriber count went from 113 to 787 overnight. I have mixed feelings about this since it may provide an incentive for people to accumulate subscribers on FriendFeed to ‘juice’ that number.
It’s my opinion that FriendFeed has dodged much of the Twitter inanity by not having these types of incentives in place. That said, it sure is nice to see that number go up, and it will likely encourage others who visit to subscribe. (Popularity breeds popularity.)