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Technorati shows blog growth still explosive

by Darren

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According David Sifry of Technorati, blog growth continues to explode. In fact, the numbers are downright blistering. This report looks at raw numbers of blogs being tracked by Technorati. I’m not sure if they counted “splogs” or not. I’m guessing these numbers do reflect auto-generated blogs. One of the amazing stats:

On average, a new weblog is created every second of every day

Seems like a lot of blogs. Further:

19.4 million bloggers (55%) are still posting 3 months after their blogs are created

That’s a shocker right there. Where are all these new bloggers coming from? Or are these just old bloggers making new blogs? The report doesn’t say. The report speaks a bit about how non-English speaking blogs are growing rapidly, which is no surprise. Then the report mentions the phenomena of tagging:

Nearly half (47%) of all blog posts have an author-generated category or set of tags associated with the post.

However, many of these tags are automatically placed into posts by the blogging software. Basically, we can garner this from the study: blog growth is up, non-English language blogging is way up, and tagging is done on nearly 1/2 of all posts. I assume all of these trends will continue for the immediate future.

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