Survey Reveals U.S. Tweets and Blogs More Than Any Other Nation

Who says the US is not number 1 on the Internet? A research company has been looking at who around the world writes blogs, and who uses Twitter for social networking. The results may surprise you: Almost a third of bloggers are in the U.S., yet over 50% of Twitterers are American.

Sysomos surveyed over 100 million blog posts to produce their data, looking for age, gender and location information. While its fascinating to learn that slightly over 50% of bloggers are female, and the 21- to 35-year old age band is the most populated (over 53% of bloggers are this age), the location data is the most interesting material in the results. The U.S.A. accounts for most bloggers -- with 29.2% of blogs being produced in the U.S., which is some four times greater than the number two country, the U.K., with 6.75% of blogs being British. Japan occupies the third place with 4.9%, and Brazil has fourth place with 4.2%. While the U.S. dominates many Net technologies, and English is the de facto global Web language (as well as being the most spoken language around the world), the fact that nearly a third of bloggers are American and the second place is taken up by the U.K. isn't surprising.