Microsoft poised to take blogosphere lead: 7 million blogs, 100000 new blogs being created per day

April 21, 2005 | By Duncan | Filed Under General

Microsoft is poised to become the blogospheres leading provider of blogs according to figures reported today in the Wall Street Journal.

Microsoft is quoted as saying there are now over 7 million blogs on MSN Spaces and that the service is currently growing at the extraordinary rate of 100,000 blogs per day, at which rate the service would pass Google’s Blogger and SixApart LiveJournal to become the largest blogging service on the planet at some stage during the next fortnight.

The service was launched in beta form in December and claimed 1 million members at the beginning of January. The service came out of beta in early April, when the number of users was said to be 4.5 million. The full launch also included the ability of MSN Messenger users to post directly to the service, credited by many as the driving force behind the recent growth.


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9 Responses to “Microsoft poised to take blogosphere lead: 7 million blogs, 100000 new blogs being created per day”

  1. d o t - c o m a *:o) on April 22nd, 2005 5:22 am

    autoblog ?

    Microsoft ce l’ha più lungo. E te pareva… L’Impero del Male diventa the blogospheres - scritto proprio così, mica blogosphere’s…

  2. Neuvo on April 25th, 2005 8:06 pm

    Microsoft Spaces on a roll

    If you blog with Microsoft Spaces, you are part of the one of the biggest blogging communities on the Web.

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  4. » Blog Archive » MSN Spaces on a roll on April 25th, 2005 8:15 pm

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  6. Reflexiones e irreflexiones on April 28th, 2005 7:13 pm

    Cifras blogosféricas (otra vez)

    El otro día BlogPulse anunciaba que había sobrepasado los 10 millones de bitácoras en seguimiento (ahora mismo dicen: 10,184,522, con una creación de 52,349 y 371,105 historias en las últimas 24 horas). El dato es más o menos coherente con los datos

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    [...] 10 million mark in May of 2005. That is a lot of blogs. Clearly, blogging is just a fad [...]

  8. pointblog.com on May 6th, 2005 3:55 pm

    Blogs et messagerie instantanée : vers une convergence ?

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