Comments on: Feedburner Bug, Or We More Than Doubled Our RSS Subscribers

By: www.hadziaj.info » Blog Archive » Something is rotten in the counters of Feedburner.

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:37:41 +0000

[...] PS: it looks like somebody has been fiddling with TechCrunch feed. [...]

By: Money Blurbs

Money Blurbs — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:13:27 +0000

I agree with Amit on the count jump. When you provide integrated service, you got to rely on the data fed from other subscribers as well.

By: Daniele Simonin

Daniele Simonin — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:37:06 +0000

This bug is patched but there is another similar bug
More info: http://read.melodycode.com/new.....mmmni.html

The bug is not public ’cause i’m waiting a reply from FeedBurner Support, but there is the pic that demonstrate that it works.

Stay tuned

By: Melodycode.com

Melodycode.com — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:56:57 +0000

Il bug di FeedBurner è stato risolto? mmm….ni…

L’immagine dimostra come il bug non sia stato risolto, o meglio “ni”…hanno chiuso una finestra ma ne hanno lasciate aperte altre.
Ora li avverto, vedo se la risposta è convincente…e poi eventualmente rendo pubblico tutto…

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 06:05:07 +0000

Bug! Bug!
Bug!
Bug!
It’s a Bug!
It’s on a linux server, BUG!

http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

By: Aruni Gunasegaram

Aruni Gunasegaram — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 01:32:50 +0000

Um. I only wish by blog reader stats would fluctuate 50,000 each day. I’ve seen mine fluctuate 5 to 10 readers a day but given my readership is significantly less than Tech Crunch’s I doubt it’s related to a bug.

By: Dan Schawbel

Dan Schawbel — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 18:19:19 +0000

No change here.

By: George S

George S — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 17:01:36 +0000

So there’s where my 900,000 feeds went!

By: itechcrunch.cn

itechcrunch.cn — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 15:13:15 +0000

i can not submit my site:http://itechcrunch.cn/ to feedburner,i donnot know why.so i go to feedsky,it is good.

By: Tony Siino

Tony Siino — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 12:32:36 +0000

Fixed? Not so sure…

By: terronista

terronista — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 08:58:50 +0000

The bug was fixed!

By: Napolux

Napolux — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 08:47:08 +0000

With Tessarolizr I got 1 MILLION READERS yesterday…

It’s just a joke, but it’s kinda funny that Feedburner didn’t solve this bug (it came out about 6 months ago)

By: manfrys

manfrys — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 08:36:28 +0000

.. take a look: http://www.deeario.it/Tessarolizr.htm

By: FG

FG — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 07:19:51 +0000

Guys read the comments before adding more speculations!

This behavior is caused by exploiting a Feedburner feature described moth ago here: http://read.melodycode.com/new.....r_bug.html.

Last week a bunch of italian bloggers created a funny, simple web application to attract the attention to a wider audience on this problem. This application is desribed here in enligsh: http://www.deeario.it/2007/10/.....n-english/.

If everyone can increase the number of suscribers as easy as shown there, can we really trust this numbers? Are we really sure anyone used this exploit before?

I think Feedburner should deliver an official statement about this!

By: Prathik R M

Prathik R M — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 06:19:56 +0000

It’s fixed now.. 600k visitors.. BTW how did you start promoting this site. Share some tips..

By: JasonM

JasonM — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 02:58:21 +0000

600,000 is pretty good only last year when I subscribed it was around 61,000 subscribers.

By: patricia

patricia — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 21:46:05 +0000

Or maybe it just caught up to all the past subscribers it hadn’t added yet.

By: Procionegobbo

Procionegobbo — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 21:08:31 +0000

It’s not so difficult to understand: it is an exploit.
Try to read Tessarolizr.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 21:06:20 +0000

advertisers don’t care about one’s feedburner reader count… hehehe… it’s pretty common (As has been exhausted in these comments) for feedburner to “lie” essentially. It’s not an accepted form of “hard stats” that advertisers want to see or pay a premium for. So let’s let those tired jokes start to whittle down now, eh? the bug has been plenty explained… enough so to mandate an update to the post i would say.

@ duncan: you yourself said it was all but certainly a bug, so how about an update to the post now that you know what caused it (or at least have a window into the vulnerability)… people have a hard time reading all the comments to find the real story, and as much as i loathe updates to blog posts this one is in order.

By: Xavier

Xavier — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 20:59:42 +0000

600,000 subscribers is still pretty damn impressive.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 20:50:52 +0000

Duncan said: …..”Given the number is up significantly from the 600,000 odd subscribers we had yesterday, I’m calling it a Feedburner bug.”

I say: Given the number is up significantly from the 600,000 odd subscribers we had yesterday, I’m taking this opportunity to lock in long term contracts with my advertisers. lol

By: Sven

Sven — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 20:37:18 +0000

Must be via my personalized page on http://www.undiq.mobi/

By: phenom

phenom — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 19:36:38 +0000

wow, that is a significant increase in number of subscriber after China banning RSS feeds.
http://vidsonly.blogspot.com

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 18:45:08 +0000

Bug!

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 18:43:28 +0000

Don’t ask why. Take the 1.5 mil figure and shop the site ASAP. Just tell the acquiror you just implemented a successful “forward to a friend” campaign if they probe.