Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Is Blogging Really in Danger Because of Social Networks?

This idea that blogs are dying has been around practically as long as either Facebook or Twitter, and it almost always gets dismissed as a ridiculous notion.


Wordpress founding developer Matt Mullenweg took some issue with the piece: "The title was probably written by an editor, not the author, because as soon as the article gets past the two token teenagers who tumble and Facebook instead of blogging, the stats show all the major blogging services growing — even Blogger whose global 'unique visitors rose 9 percent, to 323 million,' meaning it grew about 6 Foursquares last year alone. (In the same timeframe WordPress.com grew about 80 million uniques according to Quantcast.)"

In fact, in 2010, Wordpress had over 6 million new blogs created in 2010, and pageviews were up by 53%.

Read more information - http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2011/02/21/social-media-killing-blogshere-we-go-again

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