I love data which helps paint a picture of fandom: How big is it? How active are the communities in it? So I was interested when I finally got some data from LiveJournal regarding the size of fandom on LiveJournal. We know it isn’t totally comprehensive but we have a list of 59 LiveJournal communities dedicated to the Twilight fandom.

Kicking off this year, between January 2 and January 4, these communities had 246 new posts. They had 7,425 additional comments. 278 new members joined these communities and 175 started watching them. That seems really, really high.   The average post is getting 30 comments.  That’s pretty big all things considered.  (Naruto for the sake of comparison is averaging around 6.9. D’espairs Ray is averaging 15.35 comments a post.) The communities are getting a whole lot of new members and are generating a whole lot of conversations, especially when compared to some other services like FanPop, FanFiction.Net and InsaneJournal. The size of Twilight fandom, at its current stage is thus just mind blowing. If there is any doubt that this is the new big fandom, all you need to do is compare it to Harry Potter, where the community list is has 73 total communities that it monitors.

I can’t wait to get more data to see what is going on in the Twilight fandom!

The following is a list of LiveJournal communities in our sample of 59 communities:

http://community.livejournal.com/crepusculito/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/crepusculoes/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/early_evening/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/edward_dazzles/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/edwardrosalie/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/emmett_rosalie/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/esmecarlisle/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/forks_high/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/forks_posse/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/jasperalice/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/just_cullen/

http://community.livejournal.com/lasirius/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/jacobleah/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/ily_taycob/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/latuacantate/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/lion_lamb/

http://community.livejournal.com/lionwolf/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/loveattwilight/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/modattack/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/musasenelclaro/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/read_twilight/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/sortofbeautiful/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/staytwilight/

http://community.livejournal.com/tm_switzerland/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/twiconawards/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/twilicons/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/twilight_addict/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/twilight_adult/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/twilight_book/

http://community.livejournal.com/twilight_fics/

http://community.livejournal.com/twilight_film/

http://community.livejournal.com/twilight_italy/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/twilight_macros/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/twilight_santa/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/twilight_series/

http://community.livejournal.com/twilight_stamp/

http://community.livejournal.com/twilight_videos/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/twilight_t00bs/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/twilight100/

http://community.livejournal.com/twilightcien/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/twilighters_it/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/twilightfan/

http://community.livejournal.com/twilightlims/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/twilightmanips/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/twilightxchange/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/twi_ficrequest/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/twilightersanon/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/packnumbertwo/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/ecullendotorg/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/operationplaid/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/her_muse/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/newtonoutfitter/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/twilight_fin/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/twifin_mods/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/twstoryseek/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/vampires_et_cie/profile

http://community.livejournal.com/hpvamp/

http://community.livejournal.com/pattinson_daily/

http://community.livejournal.com/pattinsonlims/

49 of these communities are English language based. 2 are Finnish. 1 is French. 2 are Italian. 5 are Spanish. If you know of any communities not on this list which you think should be included, please let me know.