With Oct in a books, it’s time to take a demeanour during a implausible accomplishments of a WordPress.com village over a past month. Coming in a arise of an impressive September, we lifted a bar once again.
You’re a (blogging) force to be reckoned with.
You published 36,311,289 posts, with a common word count of 9,036,553,158 (yes, that’s over nine billion). If any post took dual mins to read, it would still take we 138 years to plough by them.
You strike a “Like” symbol 7,845,047 times, and intent with other bloggers to a balance of 63,108,719 new comments. Shy? Not you.
Our delicately comparison Freshly Pressed posts received 103,568 views, with 176 new posts combined to a Freshly Pressed fold.
Cinque Terre, by eTravelog, was one of 803 entries to a recent print challenge
You love media.
Smile, you’re on camera! Your blogs featured no fewer than 12,498,187 Flickr images and 2,106,005 new image galleries. Those sleek image gallery carousels? They authorised your visitors to view 133,385,127 images in their glorious, full-size detail.
You jazzed adult your posts with 295,313 marks from SoundCloud, and 20,113 from BandCamp.
Finally, we’d adore to know how many kittens fit into 8,853,374 YouTube clips and 364,481 Vimeo movies – because that’s how many videos you’ve embedded in your blogs final month.
You’re a accessible bunch.
You shared 4,972,574 posts with your friends on Facebook, and invited your network to demeanour at 3,144,052 posts on Twitter. Over during Pinterest, your DIY creations — all 1,109,754 of them, to be accurate — done utterly a splash.
Interaction was clearly on your mind a lot this month: we combined 190,208 polls. And, with 189,071 Google Maps embedded, we done certain nothing of your readers ever gets lost.
You tell things people wish to read.
Numerous WordPress.com bloggers suffer cross-platform success. Last month, Teri Smieja, who writes about her quarrel opposite breast cancer at Teri’s Blip in a Universe, published (with Jonathan D. Herman) Letters to Doctors. It’s a book that educates health professionals and family members comparison about a hurdles of life with cancer.
Fiction writers flower here as well: thousands of bloggers are now participating in National Novel Writing Month, including many published writers. In October, for example, fear writer Jack Flacco celebrated a recover of his latest ebook, Ranger Martin and a Zombie Apocalypse.
Finally, a good series of final month’s large viral hits originated in blogs here on WordPress.com. Blogdramedy‘s post, featuring some of a most ludicrous traveller complaints ever recorded, was a strike on Facebook and beyond, as was Hannah Brencher‘s renouned piece, 25 Things Every Woman Needs to Know.
You write about everything. And afterwards some.
We adore to see the tags we use in your posts: it’s a good barometer of a things that seductiveness a common mind.
In October, baseball, with 87,618 posts, kick politics (43,941); a Red Sox (1,847) triumphed over a Cardinals (1,329) in some-more than one way; and dogs (9,291) still had a top palm (paw?) over cats (5,698).
Halloween, with 48,589 tagged posts, was clearly on your mind — even some-more so than education (30,089), your friends (17,669), or intrigue (14,901).
The late Lou Reed (1,409 posts) and Arcade Fire (571), with their new album, were among a many renouned song topics.
Many of we wrote about inspiration (37,504) — maybe in credentials for NaNoWriMo (4,371) or NaBloPoMo (399)?
Finally, we might be astounded to hear that some-more of we wrote about a Nobel Prize (625) than about Grand Theft Auto V (584).
We can’t wait to see what we blog about this month. Apparently, we can’t wait for a future, either: in October, already 7,243 posts were tagged Christmas!
An sparkling month, community-wide.
October was also an eventful month for us during Automattic, a association behind WordPress.com.
We welcomed eleven new Automatticians (and are always employing more), and 4 of us were anxious to participate, kids in tow, in a Digital Family Summit in Washington, D.C.
Writr, a new WordPress.com theme
Akismet, a anti-spam software, distinguished the 100-billionth nuked message. While we don’t have 100,000,000,000 themes (yet), we did supplement 4 beautiful ones: Collections, Massive Press, The Parisian, and Writr.
To top things off, we also introduced a new embeddable follow button, launched WPrightnow, a tab that helps we find uninformed takes on stream events, and made it easy for My Opera bloggers to find a new home on WordPress.com.
November is already off to a good start — stay tuned for some-more news (and many some-more numbers!) subsequent month.
Previous installments in this series:
- WordPress.com News and Numbers: The Jul Hot List
- WordPress.com News and Numbers: The Aug Hot List
- WordPress.com News and Numbers: The Sep Hot List
WordPress.com News and Numbers: The October Hot List
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