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| LiveJournal used to be open for anyone to join; however, because the number of users was increasing at such a fast rate, and the vast majority are free users, the growth of LiveJournal had to be checked somehow. An "invite code" system was introduced, where new users needed to either obtain a code from an existing user, or buy a paid account. | LiveJournal used to be open for anyone to join; however, because the number of users was increasing at such a fast rate, and the vast majority are free users, the growth of LiveJournal had to be checked somehow. An "invite code" system was introduced, where new users needed to either obtain a code from an existing user, or buy a paid account. | ||
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LiveJournal is a website where some Internet users keep a journal or diary. It is one of many sites that come under the term blog, or weblog. The software running the site is open source.
LiveJournal was started by Brad Fitzpatrick. As of September 2002, 718779 accounts had been created, of which about quarter of a million had been updated at some point in the last month . Between them, these users make about 120 thousand individual posts per day.
LiveJournal used to be open for anyone to join; however, because the number of users was increasing at such a fast rate, and the vast majority are free users, the growth of LiveJournal had to be checked somehow. An "invite code" system was introduced, where new users needed to either obtain a code from an existing user, or buy a paid account.