Google+ accounted for 35% of Tweeted news links last week
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Re: Google+ accounted for 35% of Tweeted news links last week
#2Yes, but how much of G+ posts were about G+ itself, and does Douglas Hofstadter have an account yet to enjoy that situation?
Re: Google+ accounted for 35% of Tweeted news links last week
#3Yes, but how much of G+ posts were about G+ itself, and does Douglas Hofstadter have an account yet to enjoy that situation?
I think you misinterpreted the headline/article. When it says "Tweets" it means "On Twitter" (i.e. "Tweet" has not become a generic term for sharing a link regardless of platform). So it's saying that 35% of the news links posted to twitter.com had to do with Google+.
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#4I'm interested to hear how much penetration G+ has had amongst everyone's social groups.
Personally I just have one circle right now made up of work friends. They're all pretty technical; about 60% of them were on both my Facebook and Twitter, and the other 40% were just on Facebook. I was looking forward to using a social tool where I could share and hear more from that other 40%, but they haven't been posting much at all. My reasoning is that if they were big sharers they'd probably already be on Twitter.
My friends who aren't in web or game development have shown no interest in G+ though. I feel like the tool's purpose is to connect with people that I know in real life, so I'm less likely to connect with random but interesting people like on Twitter.
As a result of all this I don't get a lot of updates on G+, and those people who are posting seem to be doing it out of hope that it'll encourage use of the service - they're getting more engagement on Twitter.
Early days and all that jazz, I'm just curious to see if it's taken off for anyone yet.
Re: Google+ accounted for 35% of Tweeted news links last week
#5I have Zero friends from facebook on Google+ but then it took them all well over a year to gather on facebook so i don't expect any of then to port over to Google+ I don't have tech savy friends
Re: Google+ accounted for 35% of Tweeted news links last week
#6Yes, but how much of G+ posts were about G+ itself, and does Douglas Hofstadter have an account yet to enjoy that situation?
I think you misinterpreted the headline/article. When it says "Tweets" it means "On Twitter" (i.e. "Tweet" has not become a generic term for sharing a link regardless of platform). So it's saying that 35% of the news links posted to twitter.com had to do with Google+.
If I understood him right, I think he means while news about G+ is all over Twitter and in fact, everywhere, the other side of the coin is that even on G+, all you see is discussion about G+ itself. In other words, G+ is still in the buzzy meta phase. Only when people on G+ stop talking G+ that things start to mean something.
Re: Google+ accounted for 35% of Tweeted news links last week
#7I'm interested to hear how much penetration G+ has had amongst everyone's social groups. Personally I just have one circle right now made up of work friends. They're all pretty technical; about 60% of them were on both my Facebook and Twitter, and the other 40% were just on Facebook. I was looking forward to using a social tool where I could share and hear more from that other 40%, but they haven't been posting much…
I feel Google's strategy is indecisive, thus leads to you and I's confusion about the tool's purpose. I feel G+ produces the features of a more private Facebook (by directly implementing Paul Adam's model that matches more closely to the real life social graph), but advocates the use of an advanced Twitter (by inviting famous folks in for people to follow) and effectively builds the social graph top-down rather than bottom-up as in Facebook's case.
Pundits have already speculated that social networks aren't supposed to grow top-down, and G+ will ultimately fail (http://www.techjournalsouth.com/2011/07/why-google-will-fail...). Then again Google has always detested doing something too manually, especially when it involves human beings.
Re: Google+ accounted for 35% of Tweeted news links last week
#8I think this says as much about twitters user base as it goes about g+.
Re: Google+ accounted for 35% of Tweeted news links last week
#9I'm interested to hear how much penetration G+ has had amongst everyone's social groups. Personally I just have one circle right now made up of work friends. They're all pretty technical; about 60% of them were on both my Facebook and Twitter, and the other 40% were just on Facebook. I was looking forward to using a social tool where I could share and hear more from that other 40%, but they haven't been posting much…
Same for me. Nearly all posts so far have been about Google+ or testing its features.
The problem is, with G+, you will see less posts on general because people will be posting to their specific circles which you might not be in.
Re: Google+ accounted for 35% of Tweeted news links last week
#10It also account for 99.8% of Google+ posts this past week. The other 0.2% were people changing their profile pics.