Currently doing the rounds in the blogosphere is Tony Siino’s FeedBurner app, the Tessarolizr, that increases the number of readers in your FeedBurner stat counter due to a recent bug found.
If you want to try it out, just add the last part of your FeedBurner feed (which appears after http://feeds.feedburner.com/) and the number of readers you’d like to have. Next, hit “Tessarolizzami!” (great word - English translation: “To do a Tessarolo”) and hey presto.
For the benefit of international readers, Tommaso Tessarolo, namesake of the said app, is the Founder of N3TV. The app was developed by Tony Siino after an Italian blogger climbed his way up the top 100 of Italy’s version of Technorati, BlogBabel. At the same time, Tessarolo’s blog was excluded from BlogBabel and Siino said he wanted to show how the stats from FeedBurner could make classification data inaccurate.
Apparently since the bug, BlogBabel has stopped using data from FeedBurner to calculate it’s rankings. For Italian readers used to seeing Beppè Grillo and Pandemia hanging on to the number one spots, here’s what the Italian blog chart looks like when the data from FeedBurner is used.
I caught up with Tony Siino and, at the time of writing, the bug had still not been fixed and the Tessarolizr (which was developed as a joke) has already been used over 700 times.
Looking forward to seeing the phrase: “We need to Tessarolize the stats” entering the tech dictionaries shortly 
October 8th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
Hi amanda,
it’s not a very recent bug, it’s old 7 months.
Tessarolize the world!