Silly Feedburner question

[Cormac]

I added the cute little feedburner icon to my blog a while back in order to sex up my blog a bit..

I have noticed that the number of readers jumps from 2 to 8 to 1 and now today it is at 17..

Does this mean that i received 17 click thrus via RSS or does it mean that people are subscribing and then unsubscribing?

 

[mneylon]

The number refers to the number of active subscribers.

 

[Cormac]

So if you subscribe, but you're not actively receiving content then you drop from the number count...interesting. I must monitor my feed a bit better, it seems to be jumping all around the shop.

 

[mneylon]

I've no idea how they work out the rates exactly. I presume that any of the web reader subscriptions would be considered active, whereas thunderbird etc., wouldn't be unless you were actually pulling it down ...

 

[paul]

well you should get at least one from the RSS Blog reader on the forum and another one from http://planet.irishwebmasterforum.com/