// in 1 hour I found 1 million users, so I guess is more than 4.5 millions
Google+ is Growing Like Crazy
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#32Another problem with G+: it's not happy that people have non-GMail email addresses. Let's say I have my friend John Smith jsmith@gmail.com in a circle. G+ keeps asking me if I want to add him still. Why? Because in my GMail, I have also emailed him at john_smith@hotmail.com. There's no way for me to tell it that these are the same person. So I think G+ may be double-counting a significant number of users.
Google won't count that as two users unless John as two Google accounts with Google+ profiles. You can verify non Gmail address with Google and they should show up as the same contact.
It's getting them from my GMail activity near as I can work out.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google won't count that as two users unless John as two Google accounts with Google+ profiles. You can verify non Gmail address with Google and they should show up as the same contact.
It's getting them from my GMail activity near as I can work out.
Likely so but it isn't inflating Google+ user numbers.
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#34Great, but I can't use it because those who pay money for Google Apps for Domains are exluded from having a profile. No, I don't know why either.
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#35Another problem with G+: it's not happy that people have non-GMail email addresses. Let's say I have my friend John Smith jsmith@gmail.com in a circle. G+ keeps asking me if I want to add him still. Why? Because in my GMail, I have also emailed him at john_smith@hotmail.com. There's no way for me to tell it that these are the same person. So I think G+ may be double-counting a significant number of users.
I have a lot of people with multiple email addresses, and as long as they are merged into a single contact Google+ no longer asks me to add them to a circle...
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#36Whether Google+ is really growing like crazy or not, it appears that there is definitely a place for a new social network outside of facebook. And on that note could not help think that Apple probably missed a great opportunity with Ping.
And I'm glad they did. Judging from Apple's business model, it would have been yet another closed off, keep your data social network. I've been dying for an open network like Google+, and I think things played out quite well.
What's open about Google+? You can delete your account and download your data from Facebook as well; you can also write third party applications that read and write from/to Facebook, unlike Google+.
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#37Another problem with G+: it's not happy that people have non-GMail email addresses. Let's say I have my friend John Smith jsmith@gmail.com in a circle. G+ keeps asking me if I want to add him still. Why? Because in my GMail, I have also emailed him at john_smith@hotmail.com. There's no way for me to tell it that these are the same person. So I think G+ may be double-counting a significant number of users.
I have a lot of people with multiple email addresses, and as long as they are merged into a single contact Google+ no longer asks me to add them to a circle...
Downvote accident on my mobile. Sorry, someone get him that point back, please. Thanks in advance.
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#38The methodology offered in the comments, of googling for http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&biw=1366&bih=653&#... and taking the number of results returned for the number of users, seems more direct. Currently that returns about 6.5 million users, which is in the same ballpark.
that's wrong, two of the first results are posts by Tom Anderson and Dave Besbris.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
And I'm glad they did. Judging from Apple's business model, it would have been yet another closed off, keep your data social network. I've been dying for an open network like Google+, and I think things played out quite well.
What's open about Google+? You can delete your account and download your data from Facebook as well; you can also write third party applications that read and write from/to Facebook, unlike Google+.
Google allows you to export your data through their "Google Takeout" service. This includes your contacts and circles, unlike facebook, who is now pushing harder than ever to keep your contacts in Facebook.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's open about Google+? You can delete your account and download your data from Facebook as well; you can also write third party applications that read and write from/to Facebook, unlike Google+.
Google allows you to export your data through their "Google Takeout" service. This includes your contacts and circles, unlike facebook, who is now pushing harder than ever to keep your contacts in Facebook.
facebook.com -> Account settings -> Security -> 'Click here to download a copy of the data you've put on Facebook.'