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We hear them all the time and it never seems to really suprise me. But when I came across this figure today, I was a little taken back.
"Technorati currently tracks over 75,000 new weblogs created every day, which means that on average, a new weblog is created every second of every day - and 19.4 million bloggers (55%) are still posting 3 months after their blogs are created."
Um, wow.
This was found in a blog posting posted by Tecnorati founder David Sifry on his blog Sifry Alerts. He went on to say, "That's an increase both absolute and relative terms over just 3 months ago, when only 50.5% or 13.7 million blogs were active. In other words, even though there's a reasonable amount of tire-kicking going on, blogging continues to grow as a habitual activity."
Tire-kicking? All I am seeing is pure streaking around the track. This is just nearly unthinkable that this many blogs are being posted that often. And, clearly from the numbers Sifry has posted, it doesn't look like this is going to slow down anytime soon.
Here is a summary of what Sifry posted on his blog:
In summary:
Technorati now tracks over 35.3 Million blogs
The blogosphere is doubling in size every 6 months
It is now over 60 times bigger than it was 3 years ago
On average, a new weblog is created every second of every day
19.4 million bloggers (55%) are still posting 3 months after their blogs are created
Technorati tracks about 1.2 Million new blog posts each day, about 50,000 per hour

Those figures have got to wow you.

Technorati tag: State of the Blogosphere.