Interesting new report from ebiquity on spam blogs. Nothing most people didn’t already know, but digging deeper you find this:
“MySpace is now the biggest contributor to the blogosphere. The other key driver LiveJournal and blogs managed by SixApart (as seen at their update stream) contribute only 50-60% of what MySpace does. The growth of MySpace blogs has in fact dwarfed the growth of splogs! Further if MySpace is discounted in our analysis close to 84% of all pings are spings!”
In Octobers State of the Blogosphere report, David Sifry reported that Technorati was tracking 57 million blogs. I can’t find a more up to date figure on the Technorati site (they seem to have buried it somewhere), but even if we say Technorati is tracking 60-70 million blogs now, how does this compute:
Every MySpace blog comes complete in Technorati with “name – MySpace Blog”, so every post from a MySpace blog has MySpace in the name of the blog…and all Technorati found was 5.353 million references, and yet the ebiquity report indicates that MySpace blogs + posts make up nearly half of the blogosphere and is growing at the fastest rate. Last figures I heard for MySpace usage was 170 million + members. That’s a lot of blogs. Technorati still isn’t tracking even 5% of them.
So next time the State of the Blogosphere report comes out from Technorati, make sure you report the figures correctly: there isn’t 60-70 million blogs out there (or what ever the figure Dave Sifry reports), the figure is ONLY what Technorati tracks, and they’ve still got a long way to go on that front as well.
Tags: Technorati, MySpace
Originally posted on February 4, 2007 @ 8:53 pm
The large majority of MySpace users do not use the blogging feature much if at all. Also, the 170 million figure is not accurate. This is the total number of accounts created on MySpace. The number of actual users is much lower (still tens of millions though). I’d say 5 million+ blogs for MySpace is pretty accurate.
That might be the case Joe, but look at the pie chart, Windows Live Spaces had something like 70 million bloggers in 2005-early 2006, the MySpace part is a lot bigger again. Also the Technorati search isn’t MySpace blogs, it’s EVERY *POST* they’ve got from a Myspace blog, unless they all contain 1 post each, they aren’t tracking 5 million but a lot less.
There’s a BIG difference between MySpace spaces and MySpace Blogs. Less than 5% of MySpace users (all of whom have a MySpace space) have MySpace Blogs.
Dave
Dave
even if only 5% of Myspace users have blogs, that’s still a figure North of 10 million blogs, you’ve only got
Odd, got cut off, from above
…less than 6m posts from Myspace blogs all up, and yet the chart above would indicate that nearly 50% of all blog posts in the world are coming from Myspace….question is, why isn’t Technorati tracking them, and are you planning to any time soon.