Over 70M Blogs Served: Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere
Posted by Sebastien on the 2007/04/10 at 06:33
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Dave Sifry offers Technorati’s latest state of the blogosphere, one of the best way to size up the growth, the evolution and measure the importance of the blogosphere and other social media. Highlights:
Size of the blogosphere:
Technorati tracks over 70 million blogs (74.9M today), about 120,000 new ones are created worldwide every day.
Mainstream media vs. blogs:
“The number of blogs in the top 100 most popular sites has risen substantially. During Q3 2006 there were only 12 blogs in the Top 100 most popular sites. In Q4, however, there were 22 blogs on the list”
Languages:
“Japanese retakes the top spot from our last report, with 37% (up from 33%) of the posts followed closely by English at 36% (down from 39%). Additionally there was movement in the middle of the top 10 languages, highlighted by Italian overtaking Spanish for the number four spot.”
Tags:
“The bottom line: we’re seeing explosive growth in the tags index. People are clicking on tags, people are using