Blurty
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Blurty is a weblog service which allows Internet users to maintain an online journal, or "blog." It runs on the open-source LiveJournal code. The site, created in 2002, has 951,980 members as of 16 November 2006.
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[edit] Statistics/Demographics
Much like LiveJournal, DeadJournal and GreatestJournal, users of the service are predominantly female. Females comprise 81.7% of the service, outweighing males at a ratio of over 4:1.
These are site usage statistics, as of July 22, 2006:
- 946,106 accounts have been created.
- 590,152 accounts have been posted to at least once.
- 6,654 accounts have been posted to in the past 30 days.
- 3,180 accounts have been posted to in the past seven days.
- 845 accounts have been posted to in the past 24 hours.
Blurty is most frequently used in the following nations (based on users who declared a nation of residence):
- United States: 499,602 accounts
- Canada: 22,737 accounts
- United Kingdom: 15,978 accounts
- Australia: 6,757 accounts
- Philippines: 3,762 accounts
- Singapore: 3,751 accounts
Other countries listing greater than 1,000 users are: Netherlands, Hong Kong, Japan, Germany, Finland and New Zealand.
For complete and current statistics, see the Blurty Stats page.
[edit] Decline
Like other LJ-based journal sites, a massive decline in popularity began with the Xanga and MySpace booms, as indicated by this graphic showing an all-time graph of the number of posts per week on Blurty, peaking at 216,324 in mid-2003 and down to just above 3,000 three years later.
