Chris Cree spotted today that Friendfeed subscribers are now counted towards Feedburner stats.
It can make quite a striking difference with Feedburner if you have a few followers there.
But even this doesn’t really account for the shifting sands in online attention.
The latter half of this post was originally published Mar 21, 2008 @ 20:38
Since then Twitter has for many people emerged as the primary way they read RSS feeds, combined with various forms of lifestreaming.
The first time I see tweets and blog posts often is also on services such as Blogcatalog’s dashboard or even Mybloglog (though that can sometimes lag a little on updates these days)
Current Calculation Problems
- Blogcatalog & Mybloglog numbers are just as relevant as Friendfeed
- Twitter numbers are probably more relevant than any Lifestreaming service
- Facebook subscribers are still not counted
- Aweber & Feedblitz, along with Feedburners own RSS to Email service are included, but they are the only ones I know about. Where is the Getresponse support Simon? Infusionsoft should really offer something as well, though they don’t offer RSS to email – I am not sure about Mailchimp
The onus really is on the developers of these other platforms to report numbers to Feedburner, but I have no idea how that can be managed with Facebook and Twitter.
