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Report Breaks Down Who's Blogging Where, Reveals Nothing Surprising

by Amar Toor on July 19, 2010 at 04:08 PM

blogger in bedWe bloggers may be nothing more than two-dimensional cynics to you, but behind the veil of snark, self-referentialism and make-believe words lurk very real, omnivorous human beings, just like yourself. "But who are these mythical bloggers?" you ask yourself. "Where do they come from? God, I hope they aren't all British." A new report from Sysomos has your answers.

Not surprisingly, the majority of bloggers (53.3-percent) are between the ages of 21 and 35, while those under the age of 21 come in second, comprising just 20.2-percent of the blogosphere. The New York Times reports that when it comes to gender, on the other hand, the blogging workhorses of the world are pretty evenly split between mares and stallions. As far as geographical breakdown goes, nearly one third of all bloggers type away from the good ol' U.S. of A., about four times the number of writers blogging out of Britain. California, New York and Ontario lead the way in North America. Curiously enough, there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of correlation between a country's Twitter use and blogging tendencies. A previous Sysomos report, for example, ranks Indonesia sixth amongst the world's top tweeting countries, but the nation didn't even crack the top 15 of blogging nations.

So, there you have it. If you're reading any given blog post, chances are it's written by a 21- to 35-year old from the U.S. -- even if it's a blog post about people who write blog posts. [From: New York Times and Sysomos]

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