SNCR Research Update
With this most recent report, David Sify of Technorati has expanded his quarterly State of the Blogosphere report, which analyzes trends around blogs and blogging. This quarter’s report encompasses the Live Web, which includes not only blogs, but also video, photos, audio such as podcasts and much more. To summarize some of the findings:
* There are 70 million weblogs (as measured by Technorati)
* About 120,000 new weblogs each day, or 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, or 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%
* English the most even in postings around-the-clock
“The explosive growth that we see in the Technorati index is mirrored in social media sites throughout the Web, including ”http://flickr.com/">Flickr, YouTube, and the like. This shared phenomenon allows us to marry the wealth of information in our index with the wealth of that stored on social media sites across the Live Web through the shared construct of tags. The bottom line: we’re seeing explosive growth in the tags index. People are clicking on tags, people are using tags, Google features tagged media in its results pages. Tags adoption has become a phenomenon across the Live Web, and we are seeing a correlative explosive growth at Technorati."
You can access all of the State of the Blogosphere and State of the Live Web reports at http://www.sifry.com/stateoftheliveweb/
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