Wordpress hits fifty million web sites
Found on The Inquirer on Sunday, 10 July 2011
"Total WordPress sites just passed '50 million' today!", wrote Wordpress core developer Andrew Nacin yesterday as he pointed readers to the ever-counting up Wordpress user clock.
The Wordpress stats page also provides other fascinating information, such as the fact that in the week ending 3 July its users enjoyed some 579,930,820 page views of 2,794,824 posts.
They should remove all the spam and clone sites from that number; then it would be way, way smaller. There's basicially a whole economy build around Wordpress which focuses on automated installs and postings to boost the ranking of other pages.