Technorati releases blog tracking stats
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Technorati has released it’s State of the Blogosphere report for the year, providing valuable statistics on blogs and bloggers.
The study also shows that the most influential bloggers online post much less frequently that less known bloggers - but that they have done so more regularly for a longer period of time.
Key statistics include:
- 100,000 blogs are now created each day
- 1.3 million blog posts on average each day
- Technorati now tracks 57 million blogs
- Mainstream media is the first call for news, but blogs make up the Longtail
Most popular blogging languages:
- English - 39%
- Japanese - 33%
- Chinese - 10%
- Spanish - 3%
- Italian - 2%
- Russian - 2%
- Portuguese - 2%
- French - 2%
- German - 1%
- Farsi - 1%
- Others - 5%
Overall, it shows that blogging as a phenomenon is here to stay - and that while mainstream media still captures user attention most, blogs remain a significant influence online.
