In January of 2009, Pingdom posted that WordPress was in the top 100 for self hosted blogs. Then again in November 2009, WordPress came out with their own stats;
There are over 18 million WordPress publishers as of November 2009: 9.2 million blogs hosted on WordPress.com plus 9.7 million active installations of the WordPress.org software.
The numbers alone make me think that Google would be insane to ignore them. I love WordPress, but if I had to think like Google, WordPress would be in my sites (pun intended).
Here are some more moving stats from November 2009:
509,048 blogs were created.
6,380,052 posts were published.
483,127 new users joined.
7,245,509 file uploads.
4,728 gigabytes of new files.
865 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters.
1,720,604 comments.
7,516,584 logins.
1,390,120,928 pageviews on WordPress.com, and another 1,491,289,510 on self-hosted blogs (2,881,410,438 total across all WordPress blogs we track).
2,385,255 active blogs and 25,596,165 active posts, where “active” means they got a human visitor.
1,526,632,774 words.
This might not happen in 2010, but I still believe this would be a better investment than twitter.
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