Why WordPress is the choice for Microblogging
by Webfusion in Social Media, Web Design on June 14th, 2012 Post a commentWith WordPress 3.4 now with us (see our UK sister site blog for more) the spread of the Blog giant is set to continue and apparently at a faster rate.
For a while the popularity of Tumblr and Posterous threatened to halt it’s dominance, while Twitter and Facebook were never serious rivals and now more like partners for any WordPress based site.
Now it seems those tempted by the ‘efficiency’ of microblogging are still staying loyal to WordPress and using the blogging platform to keep it short, sharp and frequent, rather than essay-long articles once a week.
This blog on UpThemes has a great insight into why people are using WordPress for the shorter-form.
In particular the control over the hosting – WordPress is free to install on your Webfusion hosting package – is driving more and more away from the temperamental services of Tumblr.
Just to make it easier too the WordPress community have developed a host of micro-blog themes and also a set of plug-ins such as import Tumblr that even make it simply for former Tumblr fans to switch everything over to WordPress.
The somewhat rebellious image of Tumblr is likely to see it live on for much longer, but it is probably the case that those driving progress over at WordPress feel a lot less threatened by micro-blog rivals than they did this time last year.



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