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Feedburner hack: how to get 2500 subscribers overnight (video)

21 pointsby joopalmost 17 years ago
I’ve sacrificed my personal blog for a hacking experiment and the result; faking your subscriber count IS possible!

5 comments

rdjalmost 17 years ago
Not quite. It's just a broken tracking system. I guess you could do this trick to make some poor blogger think he just got 723459288 new subscribers overnight, but you can't actually cause him to have that many.
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mattmaroonalmost 17 years ago
I'm curious if inflating your RSS subscriber number gains you any significant amount of extra subscribers. My guess is no.<p>Might help when selling RSS ads I guess.
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johnsalmost 17 years ago
I don't think FeedBurner can fix this, short of not counting aggregators that incorrectly report subscriber numbers (like NetVibes is doing in this case).
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thenextwebalmost 17 years ago
Incredible! Wonder how long it will take before feedburner fixes this...
thenextwebalmost 17 years ago
On Techcrunch too: <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/04/all-it-takes-to-inflate-your-feedburner-numbers-is-a-netvibes-account/" rel="nofollow">http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/04/all-it-takes-to-inflate...</a>