20 Jan 06 @ 7:35 pm
The State of the Blogosphere
Technorati’s David Sifry has released his latest quarterly State of the Blogosphere report. Take note senior executives and communication leads everywhere: The blogosphere continues to double every 5 1/2 months. Technorati is now tracking 27.5 million blogs and counting. David’s summary:
- Technorati now tracks over 27.2 Million blogs [Note: 300,000 new blogs since he compiled his report)
- The blogosphere is doubling in size every 5 and a half months
- It is now over 60 times bigger than it was 3 years ago
- On average, a new weblog is created every second of every day
- 13.7 million bloggers are still posting 3 months after their blogs are created
- Spings (Spam Pings) can sometimes account for as much as 60% of the total daily pings Technorati receives
- Sophisticated spam management tools eliminate the spings and find that about 9% of new blogs are spam or machine generated
- Technorati tracks about 1.2 Million new blog posts each day, about 50,000 per hour
- Over 81 Million posts with tags since January 2005, increasing by 400,000 per day
- Blog Finder has over 850,000 blogs, and over 2,500 popular categories have attracted a critical mass of topical bloggers
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