Micro Persuasion: State of the Blogosphere

Monday, February 06, 2006

State of the Blogosphere

David Sifry from Technorati has posted his first update this year on thestate of the blogosphere. Here are the key top-line figures ...

* Technorati now tracks over 27.2 Million blogs
* The blogosphere is doubling in size every 5 and a half months
* 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
* 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

Technorati Tags: Spam, Spings, Splogs, Statistics, Stats, Technorati

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