Netvibes Attack?
Filed in: Site News, Technology, Web, Weblog — June 2nd, 2006
I was shocked by yesterday’s Feedburner feed subscribers counter because the amount of subscribers boosted from less than 1000 to over 50,000!
Counters on other websites were working fine. I had no clue what caused Netvibes bring in 50,000 subscribers overnight.
Anyway, it is back to normal today. The latest feed subscribers report shows only 14 Netvibes subscribers.
Netvibes is a personal homepage like Google personalized home, where you can add your own news feeds.
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June 2nd, 2006 at 6:03 pm
[...] Update: The number of subscribers is due to Feedburner problem. Haha. As I thought. LiewCF on this issue. If you enjoyed this post, get free updates by email or RSS. [...]
June 2nd, 2006 at 8:32 pm
Hi,
This is a known issue in which an aggregator reported incorrect numbers for 5/31 for a set of feeds. It has since been corrected on the aggregators side and those corrections should already be reflected in your feedburner statistics for that day. Let us know (http://forums.feedburner.com) if you still see an outstanding issue, we’d be glad to look into it.
Here is a Known Issues post from our forums:
http://forums.feedburner.com/viewtopic.php?t=26
June 2nd, 2006 at 8:38 pm
Yes Liew, Even I have notice that most of my feed readers are from NetVibs. I feel that I should Add Netvibs chicklet to my sidebar
June 7th, 2006 at 8:39 pm
I had a simular issue with my blog too the other day…
http://www.random-good-stuff.com/random_good_stuff/2006/06/i_feel_like_puk.html
I was really praying is was for real - 56.000 subscribers..
June 9th, 2006 at 2:17 pm
Netvibes… what they are upto? I found a way better service from PageFlakes.. Faster startup and smoother operations. Even i’ve tried it on some P3 cpus with only got 128mb ram.. still working like a charm .. netvibes even in new cpu works so so so slow…
June 10th, 2006 at 10:47 pm
Erm..NetVibes seems dangerous