IP Democracy: Technorati: One New Blog Per Second

Technorati’s Dave Sifry summarizes the company’s latest data on recent growth in the blogospere. He also provides a link to a presentation he made at the recent Web 2.0 conference. Here are his bullet-point highlights:

* 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

Posted by Mitch Shapiro on October 17, 2005 1:42 PM to IP Democracy