Who are the most prolific bloggers on Xanga? johncamen and alexhormand: each responsible for over 10,000 posts in the last 3 1/2 months.
Who's the most prolific blogging family on Xanga? The Wire family: adamwire, allanwire, alexwire...christopherwire...juanwire...lottawire...rosiewire...vincentwire...zechrywire. I've counted at least 30 (x)wires. I'd bet there's a lot more. They are collectively responsible for at least 55,000 (bare minimum based on the most conservative estimate) Xanga posts over the last 2 months.
Who are these bloggers and their kith and kin - never sleeping, always online - who seem to always constitute at least 50% of all Recent Updates?
They are bot-driven infomercials. Yes, as with Voluven, Haemaccel, Gelofusin, all artificial blood volume expanders in the human body, Xanga is massively being infused by these artificial blog volume expanders.
To keep Xanga alive?
They publish. They never comment. The hardly ever get visited. So what's the business model?
The Wire family all subscribe to TheXangaTeam (see above). Curious. Very curious indeed. I could suggest some self-serving scenarios such as attempting to boost traffic and activity ratings ....
This is even more curious from a historical perspective because Xanga initially defined itself just so (infomercials) and had an actively blogging private development bed before going public where it published itself into seeming like an already established networking community:
05/2000 Beta Xanga (still not public) defines itself as a site for small online entrepreneurs to become affiliates (think: Amazon.com) and write/share reviews.
I've heard sometimes that some old folks and creatures and even corporations recapitulate their infancy, perhaps in an effort to "feel young" again.
But, no. Tell me it ain't so, John.
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