Invites
One thing we’re doing different around here, at least for now, is that each person invited only gets 1 invite to pass along. The idea is for people to use their “golden ticket” for the person who is most likely to really take advantage of the service, rather than spraying invites willy-nilly across the internets. It may be a good idea to chat with the person before sending them the invite, too.
Oh, and welcome to WordPress.com. 
Update: There’s an invite giveaway here. There is also an invite on eBay.
I have no idea what these ‘invites’ are, nor what this blog is about, but I’m going to get to the bottom of this!
Michael Heilemann
August 15, 2005 at 11:48 pm
In a sort of gMail way?
Zach
August 16, 2005 at 12:08 am
OK. I’ll be the first to ask. How does one get an invite, and what does an invite get one?
Terrance
August 16, 2005 at 12:46 am
Oh I get it, blogspot.com style
. Ha, can I get khaled.wordpress.com before some slack jockey get it?
khaled
August 16, 2005 at 6:15 am
Welcome to WordPress.com
Looks like Matt has started giving out WordPress.com invites. Hmm.
Only one per person, who would you give your invite to?
…
Holy Shmoly!
August 16, 2005 at 7:55 am
I’m ready for mine
Geodog
August 16, 2005 at 8:14 am
Hello Matt. Pardon me, but what are these invites for? More power to you guys. Thanks for maintaining WordPress. Regards.
Jon
August 16, 2005 at 8:41 am
Hi,
I entered my eMail adress when wp.com was under construction. Will I get an invitation through the next days? or have I to register again?
kapeka
August 16, 2005 at 8:51 am
What’s this all about? I’m still confused?
12thharmonic
August 16, 2005 at 9:37 am
WordPress to become an OS Typepad?
Sure looks like it to me.
Quality.
…
Lee Wilkins
August 16, 2005 at 9:59 am
What is wordpress.com ?
Maybe an orkut/hi5/spaces thingy ?
kyramas
August 16, 2005 at 10:10 am
Cool, how are you handing them out? Randomly?
Ensellitis
August 16, 2005 at 11:11 am
I think you should change spraying willy-nilly across the internets to “rather than spraying invites willy-wonka across the internets.” But only because of your golden ticket reference. And because it sounds silly. And because I have nothing better to add in this here comment box.
Can’t wait to see what’s coming down the pike.
monkeypup
August 16, 2005 at 11:41 am
So what is this all about?
Guardian Angel
August 16, 2005 at 12:10 pm
When will all the users who signed up for the invites get one? I signed up the day you posted about them, but I’m still waiting for one.
Please?
OMEITOR
August 16, 2005 at 1:09 pm
Thanks for the welcome although I’m not entirely sure what it is for yet.
Tim Flight
August 16, 2005 at 1:17 pm
WordPress.com: It’s alive!
The WordPress guys are up to something.
Now I’m not sure how far the vision stretches, but having spent my invite..
Thanks Donncha, I do my best to hold off on the whinge repor…I mean bug reports
…and played around with my new…
Stuff.
August 16, 2005 at 1:50 pm
Nice!!
Suppose
August 16, 2005 at 2:17 pm
hi
matt
i want an invitation…kindly send it and plz tell me the reason for it. ..and how should i go about !
thanks
shashi
August 16, 2005 at 4:38 pm
Hmm, pardon my ignorance.
But how exactly does this invite work? I always thought WordPress was free for all to download.
Brenda
August 16, 2005 at 4:52 pm
How can I get one? Will you be sending them out in order of the people that filled in your webform? Or do I have to find someone to send an invite to me? Do I need an invite if I signed up?
Forgive all the questions – I am SOOOO excited that WordPress.Com is finally up!
Ric
August 16, 2005 at 6:57 pm
come on matt… we (here in Argentina… far far away from you) are still waiting for the invites
mariano
August 17, 2005 at 3:59 am
I, like a lot of people, having been clamoring for an invite to wp.com without really knowing what I’m clamoring for. Since I’m interested in wp in organizations, including firms, it sounds relevant to me, and I hope I’m relevant to it.
Please let me know if I can help write the faq. I’d be willing, for example, to put together some questions, chat via phone/skype about the answers, then type up a draft of the faq.
An faq might help me and others whether to cease the clamoring – or whether to step it up
I thoguht it was about time that this blog had a comment.
All the best with and for wp.com!
Andrew
August 17, 2005 at 2:05 pm
Matt, what is the purpose for me (for example) to have an accout on wordpress.com if I already have a standalone blog? Aren’t pings and blogrolls enough to hold a community together?
Maniac
August 17, 2005 at 3:27 pm
using blogsome right now, interested in what wordpress will be like and upgrading. still giving out invites?
kenny
August 17, 2005 at 3:53 pm
Suspense is killing me. What is the whole invite thing about? Do the invited get to have a blog here like in gmail?
Ron
August 18, 2005 at 4:42 am
Hi !I
I want an invitation !
fitz
August 18, 2005 at 7:19 am
Right, so this is the WP version of blogspot.com, and you’re doing invites in a GMail style fashion, but only one per person? Sounds pretty good. Although, just one invite seems like a bit of a bad idea: it’ll take a LONG time for the invites to get out of the circles they’re currently running in. Also, if someone’s on hiatus and gets invited, the whole thing will ground to a halt. Same if one person forgets or refuses to invite. I would have thought that two or three invites would be a better number.
Of course, you could fix most of those problems by starting off more ‘chains’: i.e., you handing out more invites but still one per person. Try inviting some smaller bloggers and B-listers. Of course, those second rate bloggers will tend to invite up the popularity chain out of respect for the celebrity bloggers, and so all the invites will end up running around the A-listers anyway…
David House
August 18, 2005 at 1:48 pm
I’d love to get an invite.
danithew
August 18, 2005 at 3:29 pm
I’d love to a wordpress.com invite.
I really would.
mike bailey
August 18, 2005 at 7:21 pm
I’d love to get *
mike bailey
August 18, 2005 at 7:23 pm
Can’t wait to get an invite
CarLBanks
August 19, 2005 at 12:10 am
How to get an invite?
Scorp
August 19, 2005 at 11:37 am
Love to get an invite. Btw, I wrote a story for mercury news today, folks, mentioning the blogging conference going on today, including Matt’s WordPress.com offering. Just wanted to say that the editors slapped a bad headline on it, implying all blog companies were trying to make money, including Matt’s. That is wrong. To my knowledge, this is still for free.
Matt Marshall
August 19, 2005 at 2:23 pm
Matt,I would love to get an invite. I’m a long time wordpress admirer. WordPress is one of biggest name in blogware world. It’s a amazing that wordprss finally launch its own blog hosting system.I will be honored if I can join this great community!Thanks!
levisu
August 20, 2005 at 6:31 am
Mariano, saludos desde la Península…viejo continente…
Matt M. loved your article, (will refer to it/linking your blog version) …dont find the art. title so misleading, given the related “event” …
…adding to the many above… any chance to get an “invite”?
about to (download WordPress for a new blog … would love to use brand.com)
marina
August 20, 2005 at 10:33 am
Mariano, saludos desde la Península…viejo continente…
Matt M. loved your article, (will refer to it/linking your blog version) …dont find the art. title so misleading, given the related “event” ?
…adding to the many above… any chance to get an “invite”?
about to (download WordPress for a new blog … would love to use brand.com)
marina
August 20, 2005 at 10:44 am
sorry for duplication, pls erase (together with this one) cant do myself…
FYI,
first attempt brought message: “unable to read Safari”, aka no go…
2nd one brought: duplication! without stop/fix options…can it be the Safari?
Marina Quinones
August 20, 2005 at 11:26 am
Funny, I’ve been asking all around for recommendations of blogging services as my blog needs a new home. Badly. I’ve been going back and forth between blogspot and Typepad all week.
Let me just say this. If a friend ever says to you, “You don’t want to give Typepad all that money. Put your blog on my server, and I won’t charge you.” Just say no!
If you want to provide an invite to someone who really needs and will use the new service, that would be me.
mobile jones
August 20, 2005 at 2:09 pm
Please, Pretty please, with a cherry on top! I am not above begging!
Jakesgirl
August 20, 2005 at 3:23 pm
For those of you who can’t wait you’re all invited to try out Blogsome in the meantime. I’m looking forward to test-driving the new updated WP multi-user, myself. Well done Donncha.
Roger
August 20, 2005 at 5:55 pm
Mat,Levisu again, just make sure that I leave my email address here:andrew_deewoo@yahoo.com.
Thank you!
levisu
August 20, 2005 at 11:35 pm
Marshall,
Thanks for the clarifying comment. The Washington Post picked up that title and said that bloggers are selling “blog-oil,” or even better “bottled air.” Apparently the author of the Post article didn’t read your article. He certainly wasn’t at the Summit. Other press has been very positive. And congrats Matt for the launch and interest in WordPress.com
DL Byron
August 21, 2005 at 1:18 am
Excited to hear about a new way to use WordPress. Hope I can get an invite soon. Keep up the good work.
Steve Clancy
August 21, 2005 at 5:42 am
Hi Matt,
Would love an invite , I hve been wanting to use wordpress since long, with this new service I can ditch blogger(it crashes quite many times for me) and move to wordpress.
Rajan
Rajan
August 21, 2005 at 6:10 am
I already have a WordPress based blog, but it’s hosted off a home computer.
Wow, has this spread around the internet. Choose me! Check out my blog.. I’d use an invite well.
Nate
August 21, 2005 at 8:42 am
Was on the verge of setting up with either WP or Typepad when I read about this. Seems to address any concerns I had about WP and now I would love, love, love an invite. Thnx mch…
Pinecone
August 22, 2005 at 1:44 pm
I want one so much! Thanks in advance!!
coolger
August 22, 2005 at 1:49 pm
I need an invite, desperately !
Lol.
Sue
August 22, 2005 at 10:50 pm
Yes!
Invite me, invite me!
I can’t wait!!
Whatever be it!!!
S.K
S.K
August 23, 2005 at 2:09 am
I need an invite desperately, pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Pal
August 23, 2005 at 4:25 am
Guessing its wordpress’ answer to typepad — and I am in line.
Switched from MT to WordPress not too long ago, couldn’t be happier !
– M
Mayur
August 23, 2005 at 4:34 pm
Matt,
Use the .org product for my personal site, I’d love to check out what you are doing with hosting.
thanks
jpk
Jonah
August 23, 2005 at 6:22 pm
Cruel, cruel. Suddenly a product that I only like becomes a product that I must have!
Ben
August 24, 2005 at 10:15 am
Invite me please!!!
I promise I’ll be a good boy
Cheers
Amar
Amar
August 25, 2005 at 8:12 am
I’m giving away an invite here:
http://photomatt.net/2005/08/25/invite-giveaway/
Matt
August 25, 2005 at 8:16 am
i wish to have 1 at shawn.93@gmail.com
Shawn Lee
August 29, 2005 at 9:27 am
the invite was sold…
I wonder who bought it..
OMEITOR
August 29, 2005 at 7:56 pm
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September 5, 2005 at 8:45 am
Hi! I would really appreciate to have a WordPress.com invite, if it is possible of course! Thank you in advance!
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Michael
September 10, 2005 at 3:39 am
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September 23, 2005 at 9:31 pm
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October 4, 2005 at 12:11 pm
I have an invitation that will expire on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2005. Does anybody want it? I already have a WordPress.com blog, so I don’t need the invite. Contact me if you would like the invitation.
Jon
October 17, 2005 at 4:27 pm
WordPress.com Golden Ticket
Today I got WordPress.com Golden Ticket:
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