Technology All The Way

Only about a year ago, the widespread idea was that blogs were dead and microblogging would soon replace them. Twitter was supposed to kill blogs because it’s much simpler to publish one sentence fragment at a time rather than whole thoughts bunched together rather than typing out paragraphs.

As of today, blogs are doing fine, while, somehow Twitter is struggling with flattening growth, at least to its Website Twitter.com. The weakness Twitter has been experiencing in the U.S. since last summer is now beginning to hit its worldwide visitor growth as well.

In October, comScore estimated that Twitter had 58.3 million unique visitors worldwide, down from 58.4 million in September. Meanwhile, Wordpress.com gained 10 million unique visitors to end the month at 151.8 million.

Of course, I am using Blogger.com for all blogging here (I could have just as easily used Wordpress. Blogger saw a similar holding pattern compared to Wordpress since March, with a huge sudden jump of 18.2 million visitors in October

So is blogging back, while microblogging is on the skids? A one-month spike in the popularity of blogs cannot tell you much of anything,and i am not sure if its the right question. Blogging never really went away, and was in fact helped by Twitter, which is now becoming the preferred feed reader for many people (special thanks to services like Twitterfeed!).

However microblogging cannot be counted out just yet. Twitter has finally begun to roll out improvements to its site such as Lists, the new 'Retweet' button and the much hyped geo-location feature.. Once geo-location features kick in, Twitter’s growth could simply make a comeback, with or without vengence.