TechCrunch Celebrates 4th Birthday
By Anna Johnson on June 15th, 2009Last week on Thursday, June 11, 2005, leading online technology and business blog, TechCrunch, celebrated its fourth birthday.
Marking the milestone with a short blog post, TechCrunch’s founder Michael Arrington revealed some interesting statistics about TechCrunch.
- TechCrunch gets 5.5 million unique visitors each month. Impressive!
- Michael Arrington’s post was the 12,896th post on TechCrunch. Given that a lot of posts have been published since then, there are probably around 13,000 TechCrunch posts now, with more across TechCrunch’s entire blog network.
- Readers had left 607,031 comments on the blog (about 20 million spam comments have been deleted).
- Based on these figures, TechCrunch averages nearly 50 comments per post.
Source: Michael Arrington, “Happy 4th Birthday, TechCrunch, June 11, 2009
