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Google+ is the fastest website to ever reach 25 Million visitors

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Re: Google+ is the fastest website to ever reach 25 Million visitors

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"In contrast, it took Facebook about three years to attract 25 million visitors"

What a stupid comparison. Facebook launched from nothing; Google+ launched from the world's largest web company with the world's largest web and mobile audience.

Also, what a horrible article. To quote "according to data released on Tuesday by comScore. ... comScore noted in a presentation. ... according to comScore. ... comScore data show. ... the data show". Brilliant writing.

Re: Google+ is the fastest website to ever reach 25 Million visitors

#8

"In contrast, it took Facebook about three years to attract 25 million visitors" What a stupid comparison. Facebook launched from nothing; Google+ launched from the world's largest web company with the world's largest web and mobile audience. Also, what a horrible article. To quote "according to data released on Tuesday by comScore. ... comScore noted in a presentation. ... according to comScore. ... comScore data sh…

The comparison is indeed useless. Also google+ isn't even launched yet. It's still "field trial" where "a small number of people" participate. For large values of small I guess.

Re: Google+ is the fastest website to ever reach 25 Million visitors

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"In contrast, it took Facebook about three years to attract 25 million visitors" What a stupid comparison. Facebook launched from nothing; Google+ launched from the world's largest web company with the world's largest web and mobile audience. Also, what a horrible article. To quote "according to data released on Tuesday by comScore. ... comScore noted in a presentation. ... according to comScore. ... comScore data sh…

The comparison is indeed useless. Also google+ isn't even launched yet. It's still "field trial" where "a small number of people" participate. For large values of small I guess.

Google has the advantage of being Google. FB was the underdog at the time.

Re: Google+ is the fastest website to ever reach 25 Million visitors

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I had a stretch of about 36 hours without any activity in my stream. A single friend is responsible for about 90% of the activity in my stream. So yeah, "visitors" might be a good word to describe the traffic, because "active users" sure isn't.

Maybe for you, but I have an update about every hour or less -- during non-peak times, even! (I am in China; most of my friends are in the US)
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