Surprise: Traditional Blogging Platforms Still Reign Supreme AltHouse, Citizen WElls, Economist’s View. These are some of the most popular blogs in the world and their streams of daily posts get hundreds of legitimate comments. They are published on Blogspot, WordPress and Typepad, respectively. A report published today by data analysis service Postrank concludes that legacy hosted blog platforms are still far ahead of much-hyped microblogging services like Tumblr and Posterous, in terms of reader engagement. This despite the fact that you don’t hear about people using Blogger and Typepad much anymore in early-adopter circles. » via ReadWriteWeb High-res

Surprise: Traditional Blogging Platforms Still Reign Supreme

AltHouse, Citizen WElls, Economist’s View. These are some of the most popular blogs in the world and their streams of daily posts get hundreds of legitimate comments. They are published on Blogspot, WordPress and Typepad, respectively. A report published today by data analysis service Postrank concludes that legacy hosted blog platforms are still far ahead of much-hyped microblogging services like Tumblr and Posterous, in terms of reader engagement. This despite the fact that you don’t hear about people using Blogger and Typepad much anymore in early-adopter circles.

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  5. emmanuelnegro reblogged this from soupsoup and added:
    Soup nailed it perfectly.
  6. marco said: The conclusions drawn are shaky since “reader engagement” for this survey effectively just means “comments”. Blog platforms with comments built in and enabled by default have more comments. (Of course.) Tumblr intentionally isn’t one of those.
  7. aatombomb reblogged this from soupsoup and added:
    Agreed. Our friend Laz was on Tumblr for all of a week before getting his graphic design work featured by The Daily...
  8. soupsoup reblogged this from infoneer-pulse and added:
    Talk about a misleading headline. Tumblr doesn’t use comments, comments are posted in the form of reblogs, which aren’t...
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