Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Web 2.0 - The status of the blogosphere

Technorati released the status of the blogosphere for April 2007 (great insights, & scary numbers, when you think of it).

In a nutshell:

> 70 million weblogs
> About 120,000 new weblogs each day
> 1.4 new blogs every second
> 3000-7000 new splogs (fake, or spam blogs) created every day
> Peak of 11,000 splogs per day last December
> 1.5 million posts per day
> 17 posts per second
> Growing from 35 to 75 million blogs took 320 days
> 22 blogs among the top 100 blogs among the top 100 sources linked to in Q4 2006 - up from 12 in the prior quarter
> Japanese the #1 blogging language at 37%
> English second at 33%
> Chinese third at 8%
> Italian fourth at 3%
> Farsi a newcomer in the top 10 at 1%
> English the most even in postings around-the-clock
> Tracking 230 million posts with tags or categories
> 35% of all February 2007 posts used tags
> 2.5 million blogs posted at least one tagged post in February

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