Technorati, a real-time search engine that keeps track of what is going on in the blogosphere, recently published their State of the Blogosphere report. You may download the full PowerPoint here. Some of the highlights of the report include:
- 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
I agree with Steve Rubel's comments on Micro Persuasion that the last bullet is not only alarming, but also critical to keep in check. Spam Blogging (Sploging) has the real potential to undermine legitimate blogging efforts.
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