The state of the blogosphere

by Lee Hopkins on August 10, 2006 · 0 comments

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State of the blogosphere

Dave Sifry’s been at it again.

Key notes:

  • 50 Million blogs and counting
  • The blogosphere has been doubling in size every 6 months or so
  • It is over 100 times bigger than it was just 3 years ago.
  • Today, the blogosphere is doubling in size every 200 days, or about once every 6 and a half months
  • 175,000 new weblogs were created each day = more than 2 blogs created each second of each day
  • 1.6 Million postings per day, or about 18.6 posts per second. This is about double the volume of about a year ago
  • English has retaken the lead as the #1 language of the blogosphere. However, it’s not by much – the Japanese blogosphere has grown substantially as well. In April, English edged out Japanese with 34% of all postings to 33% of all postings, with Chinese taking the #3 spot with 14% of all posting

As Mike Abundo comments, “One billion people use the Internet. Ten percent of them using blogs isn’t inconceivable.”


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