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# How Many People Create Online?
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2008/08/how_many_people_create_online/
- Published: 2008-08-25T09:23:09.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T14:16:49.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: community, creators, generation v

CMS Wire has picked up on Gartner’s new [classification of online community participants](http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-20/gartner-asks-are-you-generation-x-y-or-v-003000.php?ref=onemanandhisblog.com). It’s still essentially the 80/20 rule, but the 20 are broken down into three groups:

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Interesting how small they still perceive the creator part being. This suggests to me that there’s still a role for the professional, in creating genuine original content which people congregate around. But it’s worth journalists remembering that a “3 in 100” creator proportion suggests that there’s a whole lot more competition for attention than the “1 to several thousand” print era…