http://www.ryanmcintyre.com/wp/archives/2005/10/twenty-million-and-counting.html Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:05:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.ryanmcintyre.com/wp/archives/2005/10/twenty-million-and-counting.html/comment-page-1#comment-71 Ryan McIntyre Mon, 24 Oct 2005 17:36:29 +0000 http://ryan.jasbone.com/wp/?p=37#comment-71 Craig, clearly spam blogs and other manner of fake blogs are a growing problem in the blogosphere, though Technorati believes the numbers to be small (less than 10%). Here's an excerpt from Technorati CEO David Sifry's last post on the state of the blogosphere: -->About 70,000 new weblogs are created every day -->About a new weblog is created each second -->2% - 8% of new weblogs per day are fake or spam weblogs -->Between 700,000 and 1.3 Million posts are made each day -->About 33,000 posts are created per hour, or 9.2 posts per second -->An additional 5.8% of posts (or about 50,000 posts/day) seen each day are from spam or fake blogs, on average Dave's full post is at <a href="http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000343.html" rel="nofollow"><a href="http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000343.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000343.html</a></a> Craig, clearly spam blogs and other manner of fake blogs are a growing problem in the blogosphere, though Technorati believes the numbers to be small (less than 10%). Here’s an excerpt from Technorati CEO David Sifry’s last post on the state of the blogosphere:
–>About 70,000 new weblogs are created every day
–>About a new weblog is created each second
–>2% – 8% of new weblogs per day are fake or spam weblogs
–>Between 700,000 and 1.3 Million posts are made each day
–>About 33,000 posts are created per hour, or 9.2 posts per second
–>An additional 5.8% of posts (or about 50,000 posts/day) seen each day are from spam or fake blogs, on average
Dave’s full post is at http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000343.html

]]> http://www.ryanmcintyre.com/wp/archives/2005/10/twenty-million-and-counting.html/comment-page-1#comment-70 Craig Hughes Sun, 23 Oct 2005 21:26:57 +0000 http://ryan.jasbone.com/wp/?p=37#comment-70 Any sense of what percentage of those blogs are "real". ie, not a splog and actually active? Any sense of what percentage of those blogs are “real”. ie, not a splog and actually active?

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