Blogging statistics from Technorati

The blogosphere continues to double in size every 6 months, according to Technorati. Technorati now tracks 50M blogs and 1.6M posts each day.  Wow! Last week I was disappointed that Technorati had my blog ranked 3,755th. But in the context of 50M blogs that puts this blog in the top 99.99% of all blogs.

Other interesting statistics;

• 175,000 new blogs created every day, currently around 50M blogs
• 1.6M new legitimate posts every day, meaning spam is excluded.
• 70% of all pings to Technorati are from known spam blogs and are filtered out of the Technorati index
• Language of blogs - 39% English, 31% Japanese, 12% Chinese, everything else 2% or less

It is important to note that Technorati does NOT track all blogs. I believe Dare Obasanjo pointed out last quarter that MSN Spaces had more than 25M blogs itself. I don't recall the exact number but it was huge. MySpace also has spaces that could be considered blogs but are probably not counted in the Technorati numbers.

The bottom line is that self publishing through blogs and spaces is huge! And it is growing at an incredible rate of speed. My guess is that entrepreneurs will be coming out with better blog software, better reporting and tracking tools, and better advertising targeting programs.

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Comments

[Dimitar Vesselinov]

MySpace blogs are in the Technorati index.

http://www.valleywag.com/tech/technorati/

[Mark Wilson]

As an entrepeneur, we're focussed on provide software (using MS products) to MANAGE all the blogging that is going on, from an employer's perspective. If you're interested, check us out Don!

[Don Dodge]

Mark, I did check out ReBlogger and read the Robin Good interview. ReBlogger sounds like a blog aggregator and filter that could be used to do a variety of useful things like monitor blogs.

You might want to market reBlogger as a "compliance" tool. Business policy compliance is a huge market in the USA, Sarbannes/Oxley commonly called "Sarbox" legislation has made it a requirement to monitor compliance with corporate policies and government regulations. Lts of companies have a budget for buying compliance tools.

Good luck!!