Millions of blog sites down

Wordpress.com hosted blogs are all down.

Numerous reports throughout the day on Twitter say that the 9.2 million blogs hosted on the popular platform are not working.

Popular blogs including TechCrunch and Failblog were still not loading at midday NZ time.

A tweet from Wordpress confirmed that is down and that the company is working to restore service as soon as possible.

- NZ HERALD STAFF