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Cms. Tagging. Guestblogging. BusinessandFinance. Rssadd. Get Notified. 19 Reasons You Should Blog And Not Just Tweet. Unscientific observation: most bloggers use Twitter, but many Twitter users do not blog.

Twitter is popular because it is easy. It is easy to setup, easy to copy-paste links into, and easy to write 140 character bits. But, having your own blog remains the strongest platform if you’re serious about sharing ideas and having a continued dialog with the world. Blogging is the antithesis of easy, however it is far more rewarding. Smart digital marketing professionals understand this. I’m not saying Twitter isn’t a useful and interesting service, because it certainly is. Are you just using Twitter but not blogging? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 140 characters is often more than necessary – but also it is often less than necessary.

Globally Recognized Avatars. Six Apart. An open source ASP.NET 2.0 powered blogging engine. Look Who's Blogging [STATS] Bloggers, on the whole, are young — but not too young, according to a report from research company Sysomos.

That's right, the voice of the Internet, for the most part, is aged 21-35. This information isn't particularly surprising, given the fact that people in this age bracket grew up during the blog boom — which started roughly seven years ago, according to Sysmos — but it does show an interesting striation in terms of where people are on the web. The report culled more than 120 million blog posts for information. According to a rep, "The demographics — including age, gender, location — are based on self-disclosed information.

For example, if someone mentions I live in Queens, or Brooklyn, or Manhattan, we put that person as living in New York. " Using this method, the company deduced that 53.3% of the total blogging population is 21-35 years old. Other notable stats include: What do you think of these findings? [img credit: Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com] Kevinmullett - Photoblog.com. Photoblog - Home. Blogging Stats, Facts And Data: 2009 Blog Statistics By The Numbers. The annual state of the blogosphere report provided by Technorati always provides a ton of interesting information for bloggers, marketers and PR pros to use and reuse.

My only issue with it is they make us read through pages upon pages of content to get at the good bits, and don’t provide a list of just the stats as a resource. Well fear not, I’ve gone through the entire report for you and pulled out just the stats that I found compelling. These are useful for presentations, blog posts or even Tweets and are good all year: remember, we don’t get another one until late 2010. This data is also worthwhile just to know. More than 133,000,000 blogs have been indexed by Technorati since 2002 and around 77% of Internet users read blogs according to Universal McCann. Without further introduction, here are 70 usable blog stats from the 2009 State of the Blogosphere (a sampling of professional and hobbyist bloggers): Demographics of bloggers: Motivations of bloggers: The how of blogging.