WebDrain: Growth of the Blogosphere

David Sifry of Technorati publiced new information on the continued growth of the blogosphere (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

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