When Feedblitz Gone Wild

I’m suppose to be happy in reporting that my feedburner stat is rising but I think the sudden rise is irregular. I maintain this blog during free time after my day job and to be honest the traffic that this blog is receiving is not that high to achieve such a big number of readers (1171). With this, I have a reason to believe that something is really wrong with my feedburner stats.

With a little research I found out that the spike is due to the slight feedburner stats reporting caused by feedblitz polls that manifests since Wednesday (January 16). Joe Kottke, Director of Network Operations and a Forum Moderator released a statement regarding the “Feedburner Stats Gone Nuts“ in the feedburner forum as quoted below:

Folks, this appears to be a reporting issue with FeedBlitz. While the number you see in the FeedBlitz system may show one thing, the FeedBlitz pollers are sending us different numbers completely. This is a different issue than what was seen with the BITS client a ways back. We will be in contact with the FeedBlitz team shortly regarding this issue.

In response to the said issue Feedblitz Team released their statement saying that the irregularity wasn’t a spam attack or anything unpleasant like that but a bug that caused circulation data to get out of sync with the poller.

As I write this post the Feedblitz Team reported that the bug has been fixed and that Friday’s metrics will be working as expected.

That said, I will be expecting that my feedreader count be back to normal. Before that let me just share you my screenshot as a remembrance for the Day When Feedburner Went Crazy.

You Know What to do Next:
Subscribe our feed and be updated on the latest articles, tips & job posts.