Self-expression explosion
It seems 2010 was a big year for blogging, with over 6 million new blogs springing up on WordPress.com.
According to the site's owner, Automattic, blog page views for last year topped 23bn, soaring 53 percent from 2009 numbers, The Next Web reported.
Apparently multimedia uploads also doubled to around 94.5 terabytes of photos and videos, while an amazing 146 million blog posts were published on the site in 2010, an increase of 700 percent compared to 2009.
And it would appear that more people are blogging on the go as the website reportedly said that WordPress.com's userbase for its mobile applications rocketed 700 percent to around 1.4m users last year.
It is believed that WordPress.com now makes up around half of all WordPress blogs across the globe, with the remainder composed of self-hosted Wordpress.org efforts.
In a deal with Microsoft last year, it was decided that bloggers using Live Spaces would have to move over to WordPress.com, which no doubt pushed user numbers up a little. According to Microsoft, around 500,000 people moved their blogs (up to November) which means the new bloggers must be joining from elsewhere or else people are suddenly feeling the need to create their own blog.
Automattic told The Next Web that most of its growth has been organic despite the Microsoft arrangement, although it did not say whether the new blogs were users' first efforts or their second/third/40th blog and whether their posts are regular.
