According to an article in the Economist, the blogosphere is slowing down. Facebook and Twitter have replaced blogs as a vehicle for sharing information and links with others.
Charting the impact of these newcomers is difficult. Solid data about
the blogosphere are hard to come by. Such signs as there are, however,
all point in the same direction. Earlier in the decade, rates of growth
for both the numbers of blogs and those visiting them approached the
vertical. Now traffic to two of the most popular blog-hosting sites,
Blogger and WordPress, is stagnating, according to Nielsen, a
media-research firm. By contrast, Facebook’s traffic grew by 66% last
year and Twitter’s by 47%. Growth in advertisements is slowing, too.
Blogads, which sells them, says media buyers’ inquiries increased
nearly tenfold between 2004 and 2008, but have grown by only 17% since
then. Search engines show declining interest, too.
I discussed the impact of Twitter and Facebook back in July and earlier this spring.
(via Andrew Sullivan)
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