I guess its debatable about whether the number of RSS subscribers is a useful metric. Now that we’ve all acknowledged that it *might* be debatable, here’s a tiny bit of techblogger mind candy for you to enjoy — know which tech-related blog that almost has the same number of subscribers as TechCrunch? I should add at the time of writing, TechCrunch has a mindboggling 900K subscribers. Mashable? Nope — Rizzn’ et al. have around 185K. BoingBoing? Nah. Cory, Violet Xeni and co have around 600k. Answer: TechDirt. Mike Masnick and friends have been tirelessly working to provide insight, and don’t seem to be as much of a fixture on Techmeme as they were, say, a few years ago. Number of subscribers? 829k. Bravo! In other bet-you-didn’t-know-they-were-RSS-giants news, a recipe site called Simply Recipes outweighs Mike Arrington’s TechCrunch, coming in at 1.1M subscribers. The gorilla-king? Engadget, at 1.8M subscribers.
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July 18th, 2008 at 3:51 pm | Permalink
One good site for seeing total subs and the change day by day is http://ratingburner.com/.
July 18th, 2008 at 3:58 pm | Permalink
wow, i never knew that Engadget had 1.8M subscribers.. hehe :D
July 18th, 2008 at 3:58 pm | Permalink
Yep — thanks for the URL … keep on forgetting it. Interestingly enough, neither Engadget or BoingBoing are on that list.
July 21st, 2008 at 10:56 am | Permalink
[...] clincher for me, if I needed one, came while reading Tony Hung’s piece called Who Almost Has As Many RSS Readers as TechCrunch? Hung discusses TechCrunch’s “mindboggling” 900,000 subscribers, and [...]
July 21st, 2008 at 6:11 pm | Permalink
you do realize that most of the rss numbers for some blogs come from defaults right?