Two days ago Twitter encountered some technical problems which caused people to lose followers. In some cases the number of followers where cut in half, in other cases almost all followers where lost.

The problem is solved now and all followers are restored. As you can see on the graph from TwitterCounter.com we’ve got almost all followers back:

In case you would like to follow us you can do so at twitter.com/xaviermedia or you can have a look at our chats at twitter.xaviermedia.com

Popularity: 33% [?]

I did a small comparisation of three of the best professional bloggers I know about: ShoeMoney.com, Problogger.net and JohnCow.com.

The funny thing is that all three of them had less then 50 000 visitors a year ago and now, at least two of them , got more then 200K visitors. This shows that it’s possible to build a popular blog in little more then a year if you’re good at what you do (i.e. writing in your blog and marketing your content).

The graph above is from Compete.com and shows that Problogger.net must be the most successful one of the three since his site has grown over 1600 % in one year! Lets just hope that the last months decrease is just something temporary due to summer or something .

Popularity: 36% [?]

Today when I checked the statistics at whois.xaviermedia.com I noticed that there are 4.8 billion new pages hosted on .com domain names. That’s almost as many pages there are on .org in total!!!!!

I’m not at all surpriced that .org is the second largest top level domain since they got Wikipedia.org and AboutUs.org hosting millions of pages. But I find it kind of surpricing that .edu is only found on 9th place and that .jp (Japan) is the third largest TLD if you count hosted pages.

Sweden (.se) used to be on 14th place, but is now found outside the top 15 on 19th place .

Popularity: 37% [?]

The search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN are indexing more and more pages at AboutUs.org. If you look at the data from Marketleap.com you’ll see that about 14 million pages have been spidered by the three big search engines just on the domain www.aboutus.org.

Breakdown per search engine:

• Yahoo!/ FAST/ AltaVista -  10,196,079 pages
• Google/ AOL/ HotBot - 3,910,000 pages
• MSN -  64,200 pages

Some of the pages have of course been indexed by all three search engines so I would guess that the total number of unique pages so far would be around 10 million, but that’s still impressive.

If we have a look at the historical perspective we’ll notice that the search engines found aboutus.org for real some time in 2007 when they found from less then a million pages up to 8 million pages.

So if you need the search engines to find your site then you should become a more active member in the aboutus.org community. If you need a kick-start to the basics of a Wiki, then checkout the Xavier Media blog.

Popularity: 75% [?]