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How to nail someone faking the Feedburner count

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Vineet Rajan
from Mumbai |

Hi,

You might have come across some blogs with some not so good content but still have a huge number of RSS readers. Mostly, it might be a fake chicklet they might have downloaded.

There is a quick way to check it.

If the Feedburner name is douchebagblogger (say)

then just type this on the address field:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~fc/douchebagblogger

thats a ~ followed by a fc.

Go find those nut jobs with fake reader counts, and make them pay. So much for blogging ethics! 

Enjoy!

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Hemal Shah
from Mumbai |

This ones great ethical hack to work with Wink

Rohini
from Bangalore |

Nice work , Vineet and Lol at the example name.

Sanjay Vedula
from Hyderabad |

Thanks Vineet!

Simple URL based test.

Cool!

Vineet Rajan
from Mumbai |

Sorry Guys, 

Thats a typo from my side. 

Its Feeds and not Feed. 

Sorry for the confusion!