According to Yandex.ru, Russian search engine company
, the Ukrainian users have more than 420 000 blogs and about 20 000 communities. That is 70% more than 6 months earlier and 3.5 times more than 1.5 years ago.
There are 15% blogs and 13% communities may be considered as active ones.
About 80% of all Ukrainian blogs (both active and non-active) are hosted on 3 blog hostings: LiveJournal.com, Blogs.Mail.ru and LiveInternet.ru. Four Ukrainian blog hostings (Dnevnik.Bigmir.net, Blog.I.ua, Blog.Meta.ua and Blox.ua) host about 15 Ukrainian blogs.
Twitter.com is growing rapidly (9 times)in Ukraine for the last 6 months having reached about 5 000 accounts with 90% of active ones.
Great majority of personal blogs (73%) and communities (95%) have been registered in 8 Ukrainian cities with Kiev, Odessa and Kharkov at top of the list.
An average statistical Ukrainian blogger is a 22 year-old girl living in Kiev. She has 19 friends (9 mutual ones) and participates in 13 communities. Her blog is about 1.5 year-old and has 21 subscribers.
Above 75% of Ukrainian bloggers are youngsters (15 – 29 y.o.).
Every week day the Ukrainian bloggers add about 20 000 posts and approximately 60 000 comments.
