Respected journalist and U.S. media analyst Jim Romenesko is questioning the quality of his 15,000 subscribers after reading Facebook’s claim that journalists have experienced a 320 percent increase in subscriptions since November, 2011.

Romenesko, a blogger whose site is considered a must-read for reporters, is testing the validity of his subscribers with a simple question on his Facebook wall:

“What kind of Facebook subscribers are you getting?”

Romenesko is sharing the conversation he’s having with Vadim Lavrusik, Facebook’s journalist program manager here, or an excerpt is pasted at the end of the story.

In a nutshell, Romenesko believes the majority of his subscribers outside the U.S. are spammers, while Ludsik claims they found the popular blogger out of interest in U.S. media. The Facebook manager suggested that Romenesko ask his non-U.S. subscribers who they are.

The result? Only 20 subscribers replied.

Romensko closes his latest note to Lavrusik with praise for the Facebook + Journalists program, acknowledging the company is working hard, “but I know too that the majority of my 15,000-plus subscribers — including Socrat Jim Jones P (“Engineer at My Sweet Factory”) — really have no interest in U.S. media.”

Editor’s note: I’ve been wondering the same general things about my own subscribers, who amount to 32,461 as of this writing, I’ve suspected a stalker phenomenon at work due to the fact that about 90 percent of them are male, and I Happen to be a female who looks a lot younger than someone with two decades of journalism experience.

Readers: What do you think of Romenesko’s claim?

Source: All Facebook