State of the blogosphere
October 17th, 2005 
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An interesting piece on current state of the blogosphere
– 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
