My subscriber isn't human

January 9, 2009 6:11pm CST
This'll amuse all you new bloggers. I've just started redirecting all my RSS feeds through FeedBurner to simplify matters and get some nice, free stats. I set it all up yesterday, when my new domain went active and all that stuff. Today, I dropped in and saw "Subscribers: 1" on all my feeds. Of course, since it's all pretty new, I was excited! Someone subscribed! Someone read my nonsense and liked it enough to join up! So I go off to the Analysis page... and it's a bot. Some metadata company's web spider thingy. Bah, humbug! (lol!)
2 responses
akangirl
@akangirl (2435)
• India
10 Jan 09
That's bad. I have 3 subscriber of my blog. all are my friend are of my lot and comments are also real no robot. How does this robot commenting works?
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JanMags
@JanMags (724)
• Philippines
10 Jan 09
tell me about it. i get so many of these bots and they are so irritating. i wish they could all just vanish. aside from getting robot subscribers i also get lots of robot comment posters and these are even more irritating
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