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April 21, 2005
How many RSS feeds can one person consume?
Here is the data for the 16,121 bloglines user who have more than ten public subscriptions.
I come in at number 1,582 with 149 subscriptions in 24 categories (folders).
Mark Fletcher, the founder of bloglines comes in at number 2,281 with 121 subscriptions in 11 categories.
The scobleizer come in at number 14 with 1,086 subscriptions in no categories other than alphabetical.
See what interesting data you can liberate.
bloglines_users.csv (243K)
April 21, 2005 in data liberation | Permalink
Comments
"Serious Delta". Ohh, can I use that ?
Posted by: Jason | 24 Apr 2005 19:52:09
Nice data Chris! How..?
I'm of the opinion that a half-decent aggregator should allow an individual to useful manage several thousand feeds (that certainly doesn't mean they read them all), and the reason I'm there at no.6 is to try different strategies - notes.
Posted by: Danny | 22 Apr 2005 22:19:23
Tristan, the first number is the number of subscriptions you have. The next item is the username and the final item is the number of folders you have.
My data set says that you have 307 public subs in 20 folders, not 20 subs.
Posted by: Chris McEvoy | 22 Apr 2005 15:19:50
Interesting idea but your data is off... by a large magnitude. I checked and was on the list (TNLNYC with 20 subs) but find the number wrong (bloglines currently tells me I have subs to 331 feeds and 99 feeds with new items)
Thought you might be interested in knowing there's serious delta between the numbers you have and the numbers that are reality. (Maybe we can get other people to post their feed numbers here and figure out how to solve the problem, as this is fascinating data)
Posted by: Tristan Louis | 22 Apr 2005 14:47:35
Thanks, very interesting.
Posted by: Randy Charles Morin | 22 Apr 2005 13:27:30
