Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Hey, Techie Peeps,

Is there any way to find out WHO follows me on Google reader?  I know how many people there are (when you unsubscribe it tells you how many) but I'm dying to know who.  There must be some way.  Or is this the final frontier of anonymity in our social-networking Brave New World?
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11 comments:

Rebecca Dennison said...

There's a way:
Go to your google reader
Click on "Your Stuff" (left menu, near the top)
You should see a link in the window on the right, near your picture, that says "## people are following you"
Click on that and you'll see the list of people.

March 16, 2010 at 9:08 PM
Laura said...

My bad, I meant to say who follows my BLOG on Google reader. Hopeless?

March 16, 2010 at 10:33 PM
Angus said...

Is there a way of finding out how many people follow me on Google Reader without having to unsubscribe??

March 16, 2010 at 10:52 PM
Laura said...

Dunno. I just unsubscribe and re-subscribe. Two clicks, five seconds. Doesn't change anything I don't think.

March 16, 2010 at 10:53 PM
Laura said...

Wait a sec, Angy, I did it. 17. You're almost as popular as I am! ;)

March 16, 2010 at 10:54 PM
Angus said...

Okay I am totally confused and feel like a n00b but I can't see where to do it. Oh well! 17 is good. I just hope those 17 people get a little bit of happiness in their heart when they see the little '1' pop up next to Did I Say I'm Just A Boy ;)

March 17, 2010 at 9:21 AM
Laura said...

Hee hee! I'm one of those 17 and I definitely do, even when you write your posts in Swahili.

March 17, 2010 at 9:46 AM
Rebecca Dennison said...

Hmm...I don't think I know what you mean. What else are you posting that people could be following in Google reader?

Also, have you looked into getting some kind of hit counter? I use sitemeter's free service - http://www.sitemeter.com. I got the idea from Sarah Cosper's blog. It's pretty cool. I dropped their little bit of code onto my blog and now I can see how many hits I get at what time, how many pages were viewed, how long they were on, where they live (or at least where their internet provider lives), etc.

March 17, 2010 at 9:33 PM
Laura said...

RED. I use statcounter. I'm pretty pleased with it -- I like being able to label IP addresses. I just labeled yours a few minutes ago!

OK, so when I un-then-re-subscribe to my blog, I see that there are 18 people who use google reader to subscribe. There are 11 people "following me" via google/gmail/blogger, but I know for a fact that they are not the same group of people. I don't care who follows me as in my google account, but I want to know who's looking on google reader.

I'd love to be able to find out who's following me in RSS or another non-google feed reader, but I don't know that that's possible.

Also, I miss you! I feel like I never see you... probably because I never see you. When's the next time you're singing at the East end?

March 17, 2010 at 9:39 PM
Ali said...

Hey there,
I am one of the mysterious subscribers of your blog. You can easily see how many subscribers you have in google reader if you click "show details" near the top right when in your own blog, or see how many subscribers other people have when in their blog. But I don't think there is a way to find out who they are ...

March 18, 2010 at 6:16 AM
Rebecca Dennison said...

I'll be back out at the East this Sunday and again on Easter :}

March 18, 2010 at 7:52 AM

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