Twitter Followers Have Exceeded RSS Feed Subscribers

by Scott Beale on June 18, 2008 · 8 comments

TwitterCounter for @laughingsquid

Well it’s official, there are now more people following me on Twitter than are subscribed to Laughing Squid’s RSS feed. That should give a good idea how things are changing, especially in regards to the ways that people are getting their information.

Also FriendFeed is also quickly becoming big part of the picture, I now have over 4500 people subscribed to my FriendFeed Account.

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1 Boris June 18, 2008 at 4:01 pm

So how important is your twitter audience to you? Are you contemplating putting the TwitterCounter under or above the Feedburner button in your left sidebar?

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2 Scott Beale June 18, 2008 at 4:11 pm

Boris, it’s not a numbers game for me, I’m just making the point that now more people subscribe to me on Twitter than they do my blog, which to me is a pretty significant turning point.

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3 adam jackson June 18, 2008 at 5:24 pm

It is a numbers game for me and I’ve never had a lot of people subscribe to my blog (dailytechtalk). I must suck as a writer.

Basically, I have 12 RSS subscribers of dailytechtalk and 840 subscribers to Twitter. Sigh. I suck at writing.

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4 Christian Crumlish June 18, 2008 at 6:03 pm

Scott, I learned this interesting fact from your twitter stream before I read it here (of course).

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