Run Away Coder » Investigations http://runawaycoder.co.za Coding On The Run, becausing running is fun Mon, 24 May 2010 07:20:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 The lonely feed http://runawaycoder.co.za/2008/04/30/the-lonely-feed/ http://runawaycoder.co.za/2008/04/30/the-lonely-feed/#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:53:36 +0000 jameel http://jameel.codebreaker.co.za/?p=70 While reading a day old feed email that i had previously no time to read something very weird became apparent even though many people subscribe to feeds via Email how many actually read the emails.

This became very apparent because in the email they gave away a code to a private beta invite.And usually these codes are snapped up in a matter of minutes. Wanting to try my luck i took the code and used it on the private site and lo and behold it still worked. Since the total number of users that could use the code was 200 and the total number of subscribers was close to 755 thousand users i think its pretty safe to say that many of those people dont read the feed at all.

Which brings me to the point, why have a feed that runs and distributes to so many users who i am quite sure just send the email to the junk folder. I would not be surprised if any of the statistics which the site draws up will be very skewed.

I will not give the name of the site , but suffice to say they are very well know and for any Techno enthusiast they are a must read .

So please dont be a bad boy/girl and go read that feed now. :)

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