B-Town’s big numbers

Comments on Aamir and Amitabh’s blogs beat those getting of popular world class bloggers

The favourite celebrity activity this year is blogging. And B-town blogs now boast the number of reader responses and traffic hits, that beat their international counterparts hollow. The big B and Aamir Khan’s blogs have beaten the The Huffington Post (www.huffingtonpost.com), the world’s leading blog in terms of maximum comments posted.

Aamir’s recent blog on ‘Shahrukh, the dog’ got 6651 comments at the time of going to print, which is more than any of the posts made on The Huffington Post. Also one of Bachchan’s blog posts (http://blogs.bigadda.com/ab/2008/05/) has received over 900 comments. At times, he also updates the site on an hourly basis.

Even the world’s leading entertainment gossipblogger Perez Hilton (www. perezhilton.com) has been left behind in numbers by our Bollywood blogs. Perez’s blog gets an average of 500 comments on his posts, which is way behind the ones made by Aamir and Bachchan. Although Aamir is not a daily blogger, Amitabh Bachchan sometimes blogs more than once a day.

Interestingly, neither Aamir nor Bachchan have moderators on their blogs who block negative comments.
In fact, on his recent post, Bachchan has made an exhaustive list of all the visitors who’ve made either positive or negative comments on his blog. In his post Bachchan writes, “I had been promising that I would make every effort to respond to all those that have taken the trouble to comment on my blog. The task has been huge and of great magnitude. Random names and a few words on their views have been managed in the past, but to get each and every name has been tough. I will want to even as I write this, be able to take up specific queries and answer them, but for the moment I thought I would tabulate all the names that came close to me and thank them for being a part of my life.”

When asked if he was aware that the comments made on his blog beat that of international sites, Bachchan says, “I am unaware of it. Feelings and what my readers express is more valuable to me than numbers. Numbers will vary and die in time. Feelings will remain with me forever.”

Top worldwide blogs with maximum comments

>>Huffingtonpost.com got a maximum of 1700 comments on a Hillary Clinton post

>>Perezhilton.com gets close to 1500 comments on an average in a week

>>Drudgereport.com the blog that broke the Clinton scandal still manages to get around 700 comments on average

>>Techcrunch.com based on the technology industry, the blog rakes up to 500 comments

>>Boingboing.net Launched in January 2000, the blog gets hordes of visitors posting inane things adding up to around 700 comments

>>Kottke.org Gets close to 250 comments