2%-8% of all New Blogs are Spam

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These numbers are interesting, in so far as a low bust still substantial total percentage of spam (although there are major peaks) However, when you overlay the Bloglines data with number of "subscribed readers" to a feed/blog (with very few having over 20) there are some interesting implications. Here are the Sifry-isms :

* As of October 2005, Technorati is now tracking 19.6 Million weblogs
* The total number of weblogs tracked continues to double about every 5 months
* The blogosphere is now over 30 times as big as it was 3 years ago, with no signs of letup in growth
* 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