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4.14.2005

We're One in 50 Million

I like stats, especially when I am part of them. Oh look! There we are! In that 8 million that use Blogger.

Blogs in existence in April 2005: 50.75 million worldwide

What follows is how I came up with the figure.

Multinational Blogging Services
Google: 8 million
according to Persus
MSN Spaces: 5 million
Persus + Scoble
Six Apart Live Journal/ TypePad/ MT: 8.2 million
from LJ 14Apr (6.8m) + SixApart claimed 1.2 million for MT and TypePad when it acquired LJ which was 5.3m at the time, allows for 200,000 conservative growth figure for MT and TypePad
Other hosted (US): 9 million
based on Persus study
WordPress: 250,000
at best an educated guess, over 100,000 downloads of WP 1.5 and 266,000 links to WordPress on Google
Other DIY: 100,000
again, an educated guess, and this would include CMS packages that are utilising blogging plugins