Exponential Growth of Blogospheric Proportions
posted by Daniel Solove
The blogosphere is big . . . and it’s getting bigger. According to today’s post by David Sifry of Technorati, who periodically issues reports tracking the growth of the blogosphere:
- As of October 2005, Technorati is now tracking 19.6 Million weblogs
- The total number of weblogs tracked continues to double about every 5
months
- The blogosphere is now over 30 times as big as it was 3 years ago, with no
signs of letup in growth
- About 70,000 new weblogs are created every day
- About a new weblog is created each second
- 2% – 8% of new weblogs per day are fake or spam weblogs
- Between 700,000 and 1.3 Million posts are made each day
- About 33,000 posts are created per hour, or 9.2 posts per second
- An additional 5.8% of posts (or about 50,000 posts/day) seen each day are
from spam or fake blogs, on average
Sifry says that a big growth area for blogs is China. Also note his estimate that between 2% to 8% of new blogs are splogs, which are the fake spam blogs I just posted about.
October 17, 2005 at 1:14 pm
Posted in: Blogging
Print This Post
Leave a Reply