Got a tip for us? Share it...
• • RSS

NetNewsWire Stats for iPhone

Tuesday September 23, 2008 12:44 pm PDT by Arnold Kim
NewsGator posted stats from the iPhone version of their NetNewsWire [App Store] news reader application. According to their blog post:

- There are over 200,000 users of NetNewsWire for iPhone
- Over 115,000 iPhone users have signed up in the past 30 days
- The average NetNewsWire iPhone user subscribes to 26 feeds
- One NetNewsWire/iPhone user has over 2,800 feeds -- wow!
- More than 130 million items have been marked read by NNW/iPhone users

NetNewsWire is a free RSS (Really Simple Syndication) client. Many websites publish RSS feeds which allow you to read their content through a centralized RSS reader which organizes and notifies you of individual site updates.
[ 14 comments ]

Top Rated Comments

(View all)

Avatar
longofest
Posted: 44 months ago
What arn isn't saying in this post is that he is the person who subscribes to 2,800 feeds. ;)
Rating: 0 Positives / 0 Negatives
Avatar
Rojo
Posted: 44 months ago
Seriously - how does one manage 2,800 feeds???
There's no way one person can read all of that information, and can the NetNewsWire app even handle that much? I had the app for about a day before deleting it, and even with 4 news feeds it took forever during every update.
Rating: 0 Positives / 0 Negatives
Avatar
Compile 'em all
Posted: 44 months ago
im 100% positive it will crash on the phone. It already does on mine with 20 feeds, and thousand something news items.
Rating: 0 Positives / 0 Negatives
Avatar
longofest
Posted: 44 months ago

im 100% positive it will crash on the phone. It already does on mine with 20 feeds, and thousand something news items.


I have a little over 60 feeds and it doesn't crash. I'm not saying its the fastest app in the world on the iPhone, but it is at least stable.
Rating: 0 Positives / 0 Negatives
Avatar
Compile 'em all
Posted: 44 months ago

I have a little over 60 feeds and it doesn't crash. I'm not saying its the fastest app in the world on the iPhone, but it is at least stable.


do u have a news gator account? cuz i use that to sync both my feeds/read items on my powerbook/iphone. may be that is why it crashes?
Rating: 0 Positives / 0 Negatives
Avatar
Yuppi
Posted: 44 months ago

Seriously - how does one manage 2,800 feeds???
There's no way one person can read all of that information, and can the NetNewsWire app even handle that much? I had the app for about a day before deleting it, and even with 4 news feeds it took forever during every update.


I would guess that those 2800 feeds are mostly coming from one host. Like notifications for SVN directories or other not news related subscriptions..
Feeds don't need to be used for news only..
Rating: 0 Positives / 0 Negatives
Avatar
longofest
Posted: 44 months ago

do u have a news gator account? cuz i use that to sync both my feeds/read items on my powerbook/iphone. may be that is why it crashes?


Yes. You essentially have to have a newsgator account to use the iPhone application, I believe.
Rating: 0 Positives / 0 Negatives
Avatar
Peace
Posted: 44 months ago
NetNewsWire is the best RSS feed app around. I've used it ever since they started. The original and the iPhone version.
Rating: 0 Positives / 0 Negatives
Avatar
sunfast
Posted: 44 months ago
And to think I only have two feeds! Macrumors and BBC Cricket :o
Rating: 0 Positives / 0 Negatives
Avatar
bketchum
Posted: 44 months ago

And to think I only have two feeds! Macrumors and BBC Cricket :o

Are RSS news feeds the best way to enjoy a game of cricket?
Rating: 0 Positives / 0 Negatives

[ Read All Comments ]