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Re:Millions of Instagram influencers had their contact data ... by Alex3917 on Monday May 20, 2019 @06:58PM (#19966102)
> How many Instagram influencers are there in total?

Having worked in this space back in 2010, I can say that at the time about 150 million Americans had a blog, but only about 10,000 had 10,000 or more subscribers. The numbers are bigger now with the popularity of platforms like Twitter / YouTube / Instagram / Twitch, but only a few times bigger, not orders of magnitude bigger.

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Re:Millions of Instagram influencers had their contact data ... by asdff on Monday May 20, 2019 @07:31PM (#19966326)
Half the entire population had a blog?
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Re:Millions of Instagram influencers had their contact data ... by Alex3917 on Monday May 20, 2019 @09:32PM (#19966922)
Think of all the people who had accounts on Live Journal, Blogger, Tumblr, etc. It used to be much easier to create a blog than it is today.
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Re:Millions of Instagram influencers had their contact data ... by hi5eyes on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @04:26PM (#19974553)
it's even easier to blog now

just make an instagram

it's harder to stand out

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Re:Millions of Instagram influencers had their contact data ... by nvr219 on Monday May 20, 2019 @08:00PM (#19966499)
yeah
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Re:Millions of Instagram influencers had their contact data ... by bigiain on Monday May 20, 2019 @09:18PM (#19966854)
Yeah, nah...

Probably more accurately maybe 10% of the population had 10 or so abandoned blog-starts. (I've never "been a blogger", but I'm sure there's remnants of at least 5 or 10 failed attempts on my part to become one - littered in archive.org, search engine indexes, and web hosting that's not yet expired...)

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