Feedburner, the popular RSS management service now owned by Google, a few months ago started counting all your Friendfeed friends as RSS subscribers, if the feed of your blog is pushed to your Friendfeed stream.
In the past few days, I (and many others) noticed a huge drop of RSS subscribers. Mine went from around 1050 to about 300. It looks like (but I haven’t found an official source confirming that) Feedburner is no longer counting Friendfeed friends as RSS subscribers. Other blogs, more popular than mine, experienced an even more significant drop, loosing many thousands readers.
The question is: does it make sense to count your Friendfeed subscribers as RSS subscribers? Technically speaking, yes, and many interactions with my blog posts come from Friendfeed actually. On the other hand, Friendfeed is very noisy, it is very difficult to come accross a news or message if you have thousands friends over there. Much different from a “traditional” RSS reader or Google Reader, where you go when you are specifically looking forward to reading news.
What do you think?
UPDATE (Dec 28th): looks like Friendfeed subsribers are back
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