2 Reasons Why Twitter Uses Blogger instead of WordPress for its official Blog

25 Jun
2010


I don’t know why I care, but I do. During Twitters recent many fail whale out­ages I finally after draw­ing all sorts of con­clu­sions I went to Twitter’s offi­cial blog to find out why. After read­ing their enig­matic response, I noticed that Twitter of all the social media sites has a Blogger blog.

Not that I have any­thing against Blogger. Okay I kinda do have some­thing against Blogger. But I was sur­prised. If it was Myspace, I could totally see that. But it isn’t. (No offense to any Blogger users. I used to have a Blogger blog) This was no pre­mium Blogger blog either. It was com­plete with the “Next Blog” but­ton and every­thing. Of course I clicked the Next Blog but­ton! Found this lit­tle gem. I would have jumped through flam­ing hoops to be the next blog behind Twitter’s blog (astro­nom­i­cal traf­fic).

Alright let me cut to the chase. While I could have sim­ply asked Twitter why it uses Blogger instead of WordPress I have once again decided to for­mu­late my own the­o­ries. Here’s 2 rea­sons Twitter uses a Blogger blog instead of WordPress: It’s all about rela­tion­ships

1. Google is buy­ing Twitter?

Back in April there was some buzz that Google (which owns Blogger) was in talks to buy Twitter. If this is true let’s face it: If you work at McDonald’s you don’t show up to work eat­ing KFC. Meaning: If Google is going to buy Twitter no doubt it would be inte­grat­ing its soon to be adop­tive par­ent company’s prod­ucts.

Read this: Why Google Will Buy Twitter

2. Beef with Matt Mullenweg — WordPress cre­ator

Matt Mullenweg had some thoughts recently about Twitter and its API. His state­ment read like a sort of back­handed dis/​compliment/​let me not com­pletely burn this bridge type of state­ment. So if I was Twitter and I read things the way I read things, then I might con­clude to cold shoul­der WordPress and opt for Blogger.

Twitter posted a blog post enti­tled “Hello World” where it addresses the API changes that may have prompted Mullenweg’s com­ments . If “Hello World” sounds famil­iar it’s because it is the title of the default first post of a WordPress blog.

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*cue dra­matic music* Is the title a digg at Mullenweg? That’s my the­ory.

Read this: Has Adoption of the Twitter API as a Standard Stalled?

Bear in mind that these the­o­ries really have no basis but what I came up with in my cre­ative head mixed with a lit­tle inter­net CSI. Either way there has to be some log­i­cal expla­na­tion why Twitter would choose Blogger over WordPress. Maybe you know the truth. My default: Facebook is behind this.

Thanks for read­ing,

Literary Nobody

Toya Bryant has written 193 article(s) for this site

Toya Bryant aka Literary Nobody is a Freelance Writer/Blogger who promotes positive thinking and actions within the community and the family. She also writes about the positives and negatives of technology, internet security and social media.

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    Or it could be that twit­ter is cheap, they get mas­sive traf­fic on their blog page and they can offload that traf­fic onto googles servers instead of bur­den­ing their already taxed servers. Thus way you can still access their blog even when twit­ter is fail­ing. Remember word­press causes you to main­tain your own server. Good the­o­ries though!!

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