Comments on: Friendfeed Adds RSS Stats Tracking

By: AJ Kohn

AJ Kohn — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:21:40 +0000

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.)

By: Gary Arndt

Gary Arndt — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:10:04 +0000

I had a 2,500 subscriber boost today. I figured Feedburner was broken. This explains it.

By: Allen Stern

Allen Stern — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:37:41 +0000

Rob – that is the sample image from FF not my numbers

By: Double the RSS Subscribers? Thank You, FriendFeed! | NowSourcing

Double the RSS Subscribers? Thank You, FriendFeed! | NowSourcing — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:01:28 +0000

[...] 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, [...]

By: Rob Diana

Rob Diana — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:31:12 +0000

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.

By: Ben McKay

Ben McKay — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:17:00 +0000

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.