Counting Down (Or Up ?) to 5 Million

Update - Next Morning

As of 9.000 a.m. PST December 11, 2004 Technorati is watching 5,002,014 blogs

I meant to do this last week or so, but when I looked at the Technorati home page, it’s blogometer watching 5,000,000 blogs seemed to be a bit of a ways off yet.

Well, today I went there, and almost missed it … as of 11.00 p.m. PST December 10, 2004, Technorati is watching:

4,992,754 blogs

I wonder if Technorati’s blogometer will turn to 5,000,000 tomorrow, December 11 or the next day, December 12. I’ll bet late tomorrow, in the evening.

For those of you who are interested, I kept track of the blogometer rollover as technorati went from watching 3 million + blogs to over 4 million.

That rollover happened sometime in the lat evening of September 23, 2004 and the early morning of September 24, 2004.

So … from 4,000,000 to 5,000,000 …

1,000,000 blogs created and then watched by Technorati in approximately 77 days, or about 2.5 months.

That’s just about 13,000 blogs per day … which incidentally is bang-on what the rate of blog creation was a year and a half ago.

Update:

Just before going to bed, 2.5 hours after I first posted this item:

Technorati is now watching 4,996,925 blogs … so another 4,171 blogs in the last 2.5 hours.

Now I’ll bet that there will be more than 5,000,000 blogs watched by Technorati when I wake up tomorrow morning.