WordPress 3.0 - Downloaded 30 Million Times

CALIFORNIA - A lot of achievements that have been passed by WordPress. Four million blogs have been made in WordPress within the last three months. Now WordPress 3.0 has been downloaded more than 30 million times.

A few months ago, WordPress 3.0 has been downloaded 20 million times. Since then, the download numbers continue to grow rapidly. The number of downloads may increase again because WordPress will be launched next few days. As quoted from Softpedia, Tuesday (01/08/2011).

Recently, many users have started to switch from blogging services like WordPress to a kind of social networking site Twitter. At the same time some people are also switching to a more simple blogging service like Tumblr or Posterous. 2010 is the best year for WordPress as 16 million new blogs appear on the site.

WordPress is a open source Content Management System (CMS), used as a blog publishing applications, powered by PHP and MySQL. WordPress has many features, including plug-ins and templates system. WordPress is used by 13 percent from 1 million of the world's largest site.

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WordPress Get 23 Billion Pageviews in 2010

CALIFORNIA - Automattic, the company behind the popular blogging platform, WordPress.com, it was reported in 2010 has grown to 6 million new blog from it and get a 23 billion pageviews for it's blogs.

23 billion pageviews for 2010 represents an increase 53 percent from the previous year, 2009. The latest statistics reported by The Next Web website. Similarly, as quoted by Mashable, Saturday (01/08/2011).

"Media upload level also doubled to 94.5 terabits, which consists of photographs and videos, while new posting also increase up to 110 percent, to 146 million postings for 2010," said Automattic party.

In December 2010, the founder of Automattic, Matt Mullenweg and CEO Toni Scheider, stated that their company has a total of 30 million publisher's responsible for 10 percent of websites around the world. They also stated that WordPress is visited by 300 million visitors each month.

Automattic reportedly could generate approximately US$1 billion profit per month for hosting services and premium services. This proves that Automattic has an important role in the world of web publishing.

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