MSN's blogging service Spaces is steaming along in the blogopshere. Nielsen/Netrating's Understanding the Blogopshere report, shows the number of people interacting with Spaces in the US has grown a whopping 947
per cent this year, attracting nearly 3.3 million visitors in July,
compared to about 300,000 in January....
While Typepad's combined audience for July is bigger at 4.5m visitors and Blogger's is bigger still at 12.6 million, TP's audience growth is a modest 28 per cent and Blogger's just 45 per cent. It's not surprising that Microsoft is picking up serious steam as the service has been launched off the back of the massive MSN platform.
Indeed the Spaces official blog, The Space Craft, states that the audience figure globally is nearer 50m while Microsoft itself is saying that, "MSN Spaces is the fastest growing service MSN has ever introduced."
Microsoft will always be viewed with suspicion by purist blogging communities despite Scoble's efforts, however, Spaces arrival can only force the rate at which the blogopshere becomes a more representative public forum.
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