Tag Archives: RSS

TechCrunch Does Not Have One Million RSS Readers

Michael Arrington has posted that TechCrunch has reached the 1,000,000 subscriber mark on FeedBurner. First off, congrats to TechCrunch; I have never seen someone hit that milestone before.
I don’t know that they really have one million subscribers, but I do know they have at least one… me.
I use NetNewsWire on my laptop and my phone. [...]

Question for Feed Subscribers

One of the unadvertised features of statzen is that multiple feeds can be merged into a single feed. I have been using this feature to include posts from the statzen blog in the feed for my personal blog. I did this for two reasons:

It is probably safe to assume that a majority of jaxn.org subscribers [...]

Better Support for Replies in Twitter

Twitter has been a little “stressed out” lately. One of the downsides of this is that they have disabled the “replies” tab on twitter.com. Twitter is suggesting that we should use summize.com to check replies.
First off, it must be at least a little embarrassing for Twitter to admit that Summize is better able to query [...]

Subscriber Numbers Are Meaningless part duex

I took a break from coding statzen this morning to read some blogs and I saw a post from Dave Winer talking about Yet Another Feedburner Problem. The gist of which is described here. Basically, you can send a single http request to Feedburner that will drastically inflate (or likely deflate) the subscriber count [...]