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Growth of the Blogosphere

February 6, 2006 By Will Richardson

Nothing in the latest Technorati statistics to suggest whether or not the content being created on blogs is becoming more useful or interesting or valuable, but there’s no doubt that the blog engine continues to run at a pretty high RPM. Some of the findings:

  • Technorati now tracks over 27.2 Million blogs
  • 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
  • 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

    1.2 million posts a day is a pretty amazing number. And if the trends hold true, by June that will be over 2 million, and 4 million by the beginning of next year. A part of me finds that overwhelming, but a bigger part of me finds it exciting as all get out. There is much to learn in that soup of posts. Think of the opportunity. The key is being able to find it, evaluate it and use it effectively.

  • Filed Under: General, Read/Write Web

    Comments

    1. Christina Norwood says

      February 6, 2006 at 11:40 am

      I have started blogging recently. However for the past couple of years I have been contributing a couple of posts a day to various newsgroups and web forums, and am no longer doing that. I have lost interest in the subjects of those forums, and am blogging about things that are currently more important to me. I guess I’m becomming more self-centered.

    2. Steve Ediger says

      February 6, 2006 at 10:02 pm

      Despite the fact that I’ve been working with computers since 1969 and with microcomputers since 1978, I’m a notoriously late-adopter.

      I’ve been lurking on the blogosphere for several years now, but have yet to comment much or start my own. However, I’m considering it.

      I’ve been doing some recent research on it in terms of our academic technology efforts and been pleased at the maturity that I’m seeing happen.

      Cheers,

      Steve Ediger

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