The net effect of this would be grossly exaggerated RSS feed counts, which could affect the advertising rates that a blog or other site using RSS feeds could charge.
The goal from a publishers perspective is to gain readers (and I assume a subscriber to the network counts in each of their individual feed counts), as well as advertising revenue, which Feedburner is now selling into feeds at reasonable CPMs (but, as I know from experience, very low sell through rates).
After a PM has fasted for 12 hours (not fed anything), its item fed count will reset to zero.
True, many Twitter users never (consciously) touch an unofficial Twitter app, but they are being fed, counted, pitched, contested, serenaded and otherwise engaged by influencers, power users and marketers who rely on Twitter's developer ecosystem.
Look at your own Twitter feed and count the ratio of personal postings vs third party stuff you're RTing or just linking to/pointing out.
Recent research has shown promise in passively detecting feeding gestures, but this effort focuses on bridging detection of feeding gesture count and identifying overeating episodes.
Samples of surviving mosquitoes were dissected over time post-feeding to count oocyst and sporozoite numbers.
Mapping feeding gesture count to caloric intake, we obtain a rough estimate of whether participants overate while watching television.
It has been shown that feeding gesture count correlates with caloric intake; the more one eats, the more calories one is likely consuming.
Our experiment successfully induced overeating in 50% of the participants, showing a correlation between feeding gesture count and caloric intake in unstructured eating (r=.79, p-value=.007).
