Sifry’s back with his ‘State of the Blogosphere’ for April 2006:
- The number of blogs has multiplied by 60 in the past 3 years.
- 75,000 new weblogs created every day (1 per second)
- 19.4 million bloggers (55%) still posting 3 months later (was 50%)
- 3.9 million bloggers update their blogs at least weekly.
- 1.2 posts added every day, 50,000 posts/hour (after straining out spam)
Looking at data from bloglines users, we’ve concluded that
– The feeds that really matter (FTRMs) are a very small fraction of blogosphere
– FTRMs double each year, not each six months
– Most users follow a modest number of feeds
For details, see here.