50m blogs already. Where will it end?

Church of the Customer reports the latest blog figures.  The numbers keep increasing – so much so that I am embarassed to mention the number of blogs in any article because it will be wrong by the time the article is printed.  It’s like currency in a hyper-inflation country.

Of course, there is a long tail of low traffic sites, as I noted a while back (Who are all these bloggers?) but it really is an interesting phenomenon.

I’m pretending not to be obsessed about my Technorati ranking. (10,870 as of two minutes ago, but it’s not like I’m checking every five minutes.  Honest.)  However, I did a quick bit of research about how many blogs you need to link to you to make it into the top 1,000. I polled a handful of sites and correlated their Technorati position against the number of blogs that link to them:

Position        Number of linking blogs

12,522        181

6,788          303

4,019          458

2,010          736

57              4,194

So I reckon, you need about 1,000-1,200 links to get into the top 1,000.  Does anyone have more accurate data than this or is there someway of calculating it in real time, rather than polling known sites and extrapolating from their rankings?

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