From: Tyler Emerson (emerson@intelligence.org)
Date: Thu Oct 20 2005 - 12:56:43 MDT
http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000343.html
Summary:
* 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
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Tyler Emerson | Executive Director | The Singularity Institute
Box 50182 | Palo Alto, CA 94303 | T-F: 866.667.2524
emerson@intelligence.org | http://www.singinst.org
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