Commenter Activity Growing 120% Annually

By Erin Pettigrew on Tue March 10, 2009



A quick glimpse at the astounding increase in comment volume over the past few years.

In 2008, registered Gawker Media commenters posted 5.9 million missives in response to our editors' posts. That number was 120% greater than comment volume in 2007.

2009 is off to an equally impressive start. We're averaging 600,000 comments per month already (last year's monthly average hovered at 500k).