Top 20 Free Blogging Platforms

©MonZaeMon™ 69 - Blogging is one of the products of the innovations in online experience. In fact, there are millions of blogs in the internet dealing with different niches and more are being created each day. How come blogs are easily created and increase in numbers exponentially? Well, thanks to the free blogging platforms that people are using these days.
Free blogging platforms has become a place where people wanting to create blogs can materialize the blogs they are dreaming about. But among the dozens (if not hundreds) of blogging platforms out there in the World Wide Web, which are the ones that step up?
Wordpress

Wordpress is considered as the top free blogging platform today and, in fact, it is mostly being used as a content management system by most bloggers. This blogging platform boasts of the unbelievable number of themes and an excellent service for community support.
Blogger
This Google-powered free blogging platform is another blogger’s favorite. In Blogger, people can create blogs from a wide array of templates and ready-made designs available in the website and can be hosted for free in blogspot.com.
Multiply
This social networking site allows users to create and design profiles and display blog posts. It acquired 20 million users in 2010 and probably had grown more until recently.
The website is now more like a website for online shops where users can post products and services in their profiles.
Drupal
Drupal, like WordPress, is a content management system and at the same time a free open-source blogging platform. It also has an application development service that developers can use.
Tumblr
Tumblr is a blogging platform which users can use to create their personal space in the web made of photo, video, audio, quote and link content. It is pretty much an example of simple yet fast blog creation.
LiveJournal
LiveJournal or LJ is a web-based community where users can put up blogs, journals and diaries.  Users can create their LiveJournal accounts and blogs for free. Furthermore, LiveJournal has a social network site feel that will entice most users.
Joomla!
Joomla works as a content management system that allows users to create websites and blogs using basic processes and a user-friendly interface. Joomla is an award-winning company and has millions of users worldwide.
Posterous
Posterous is a rather simple free blogging platform which users can use these days. In fact, what is cool with this kind of service, users are able to post blog content through mobile means.
Xanga
Xanga is a website that houses photo blogs, weblogs and social network profiles.  The website started as a website for music and book reviews. Now, it has become a blogging platform with a mix of social networking.
Blog.com
This is a really simple blog publishing platform that allows users a quick method of setting up a personal or commercial website with a free blog hosting service.
Other promising blogging platforms:
• Movable Type
• Bravenet
• Terapad
• Weebly
• Squarespace
• Textpattern
• LifeType
• Friendster
• Blogster
Free blogging platforms these days offer a wide variety of innovations which will forever change how people make their own personal corner in the web universe.