Who Writes Blogs: Some Interesting Facts

While you might read blog posts on a daily basis, and you might even subscribe to a few that have content that interests you, have you ever wondered who exactly writes those blogs? What are the demographics of who blogs?

You might be surprised to find that two-thirds of all bloggers are male. I would have guessed female. Sixty percent of those that blog are between the ages of eighteen and forty-four. This statistic is a little more obvious. As far as education, 75% of bloggers have college degrees and 40% of them have graduate degrees. So, the content you are reading or subscribing to, comes from a rather educated caliber of people. If you are wondering what the current statistics are, you can find them at http://spinn3r.com/statistics. Spinn3r keeps the statistics updated live 24/7 and recomputed on the fly. The information is freely available while there are additional statistics available for paying members.

Of those who blog, what are the most popular blogs? Tecnorati keeps a list of the top 100 current blogs being read. It can be found at: http://technorati.com/blogs/top100. While the statistics change every minute in the blogoshpere, the top ten blogs don't alter that much in ranking. The most popular topics being written about on blogs in the top ten range from politics, to technology, to gadgets, and news. The first spot rarely changes and goes to "The Huffington Post"; a rather liberally forward thinking Internet newspaper. The remaining nine ranking spots in the top ten list jockey for position. The one standout from the top ten is the blog from TMZ it stands out because it is a blog about celebrity and entertainment news.

The newest kid on the social media block getting a lot of word play is Twitter. While it appears to be widely popular with celebrities and television shows, the data proves otherwise. Of those who blog, 52% of them syndicate their blog posts to their Twitter account. Interestingly, 26% of the bloggers who also use Twitter say that Tweeting (the term given to a post on Twitter) has eaten into the time that they spend updating their traditional blog. So the question has to be asked, why spend the time Tweeting if only 14% of the general population uses Twitter? This is probably a statistic that most blogger/tweeters aren't aware of.

The above statistical data on Twitter is from The Future Buzz. http://thefuturebuzz.com/