Category Archives: Milestones

Various milestones and announcements since our blog was launched on September 27, 2010 on WordPress[dot]com.

WordPress Powers 50 Million Sites

More than 50 million WordPress sites in the world

WordPress

The popular blogging platform WordPress has reached an important milestone as it now powers more than 50 million sites, about half of which are hosted on WordPress.com. They have updated their official stats page to count WordPress installations as well as WordPress.com blogs.

Facebook Reached 500 Million Users Milestone

Zuckerberg announces Facebook has 500 million monthly active users

Social Media

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg made it official on the company’s blog on July 21, 2010 that the social networking site now has 500 million monthly active users.

Hundred Million Plugin Downloads

10,143 plugins, 100 million downloads, and counting

WordPress

WordPress is a state-of-the-art, free, and priceless publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. Plugins can extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine.

Facebook Most Visited Site

Google names Facebook most visited site on the web in April

Facebook

The search engine giant Google releases a list of the largest 1,000 websites in the world based on unique visitors. This list is updated monthly as new Ad Planner data-sets are released. Social networking site Facebook has been adjudged as the most visited site on the web in April, 2010.

Twitter Follower Count Milestones

A milestone is a significant event in your life (or in a project). If you are on the micro-blogging site twitter then your milestones could be when your twitter follower count reaches a certain significant number, say first 100 followers, then one day 1000 followers, and then 10,000 followers, and so on.