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Google+ passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day.

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Post by _ea1k »

fl3tch wrote: post #32
_ea1k wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've heard this argument (mostly from Googlers) before. I don't buy it though, as I occasionally (rarely now) see friends post things and get zero comments. The same comments will get tons of comments on Facebook. This thing has largely failed outside of tech circles and twitter style (celebrity) newsfeeds at the moment. Hopefully that will change, as I find it superior to Facebook in virtually every way.

I'm curious, what are all the ways in which you find it superior? I agree that circles are better than Facebook friend lists, but G+ seems to lack some features that others find essential on Facebook, like event creation. I've heard a lot of people say that's the biggest reason they have a Facebook account. Also, there's no direct messaging system, at least that I'm aware of. FB messaging has basically replaced email…

I've never used events or posting on other people's wall on Facebook. Those are Facebooks two remaining advantages, IMO.

I know a lot of people use Facebook for messaging, but I would honestly prefer that they just email. I don't really see the advantage of a non-email email over just using email. Google+ email and chat integration are just fine.

You don't have to manually put people into their own circles. If you share something, just start typing their name (instead of a circle name) and it will let you share with individuals instead of circles. It works the same way otherwise.

I find the slowness surprising, actually. Whenever I've used + it always seems either the same or faster than Facebook. Perhaps this has to do with specific network environments or something? I have noticed that it takes a while for updates to propagate (caching, I guess) across to other users. That part is a little annoying at times.

Re: Google+ passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day.

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Post by akkartik »

timdorr wrote: post #4

Users are one thing, active users are another. How many posts are being made? Are they just signing up for these accounts and never coming back? There's a reason Facebook and Twitter quote active users when announcing how many people are actually using their products.

Yes, active users would be better. It's still useful though to have users registered. At some point it'll hit critical mass and that bar at the top of the page will start lighting up with notifications.

I had a linkedin account for years before I paid any attention to it. Eventually the emails started rolling in to engage me.

Re: Google+ passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day.

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Post by Steko »

Ok so his data shows 50 mil users Dec 1 and 62 mil users Dec 27 which is easy to calculate at 460k users a day not 625K.

I'm more then willing to believe that there were 625K+ users for Dec 25 and 26 though to extrapolate users for all of 2012 based on xmas day and the day after xmas sign ups of 2011 is absurd.

Interest in google plus is fairly flat:

http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=%22google%20plus%22...

For comparison's sake that is 10% of twitter and twitter is 10% of facebook.

Re: Google+ passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day.

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Post by ______ »

Steko wrote: post #43

Ok so his data shows 50 mil users Dec 1 and 62 mil users Dec 27 which is easy to calculate at 460k users a day not 625K. I'm more then willing to believe that there were 625K+ users for Dec 25 and 26 though to extrapolate users for all of 2012 based on xmas day and the day after xmas sign ups of 2011 is absurd. Interest in google plus is fairly flat: http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=%22google%20plus%22... For…

It's fascinating how periodic searches for LinkedIn are -- peaking right before each quarter ends. Looks like a lot of people are looking for news jobs right around then.

Re: Google+ passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day.

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Post by aeontech »

spodek wrote: post #33
cheald wrote: post #19

All the Google+ hate sort of puzzles me. I absolutely love it. It's become my social media platform of choice, in fact. Maybe it's just that I have enough interesting people to read that it's worth it to me. I'm not sure. I've never been a fan of Facebook. I've had an account for years, but that's pretty much entirely for API testing. I can count the number of things I've posted to Facebook in the past year on one ha…

"It's become my social media platform of choice, in fact." Diaspora is my social media platform of choice for the freedom it provides. When it's easy I don't mind posting to other platforms through Diaspora, which I can with Facebook and Twitter. If someone created a way to post to Google+ from Diaspora, I would post to it from Diaspora also. (If such a way already exists, I'd love to hear of it).

Unfortunately so far, the G+ API is read-only. There is no way to write any third party tool to post to it. It would be interesting to hear from someone with internal knowledge on what their actual plans on opening it up are.

Re: Google+ passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day.

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Post by fpgeek »

justincormack wrote: post #23
timdorr wrote: post #4

Users are one thing, active users are another. How many posts are being made? Are they just signing up for these accounts and never coming back? There's a reason Facebook and Twitter quote active users when announcing how many people are actually using their products.

I accidentally created an account during Android phone activation, as it was very unclear (already had one on other account and didnt want another). They could get up to 700k a day like this, maybe this is most of them.

Were you activating a Galaxy Nexus? So far as I know, pre-Ice Cream Sandwich Android releasesare also pre-Google+, so they don't prompt you for anything Google+-related during setup.

Re: Google+ passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day.

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Post by fpgeek »

justincormack wrote: post #24
brendano wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. For example, the Facebook numbers are always number of people who've logged in at least once in the last 28 or 30 days (or something) -- I'm sure the G+ people are computing this internally. The fact they don't report it implies it may be a bit low?

Oh but its just a google login, most people will have one. You need to measure views or posts...

Not quite. There's a difference between Google accounts that are "switched on" for Google+ and those that are not. These days also you need to do is sign into Google+ with your Google account to flip the switch, but there is still a distinction.

Re: Google+ passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day.

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Post by tednaleid »

______ wrote: post #44
Steko wrote: post #43

Ok so his data shows 50 mil users Dec 1 and 62 mil users Dec 27 which is easy to calculate at 460k users a day not 625K. I'm more then willing to believe that there were 625K+ users for Dec 25 and 26 though to extrapolate users for all of 2012 based on xmas day and the day after xmas sign ups of 2011 is absurd. Interest in google plus is fairly flat: http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=%22google%20plus%22... For…

It's fascinating how periodic searches for LinkedIn are -- peaking right before each quarter ends. Looks like a lot of people are looking for news jobs right around then.

Are you looking at the graph in the post you replied to? I see it as weekday spikes (while people are at work, maybe recruiters?) and weekend slumps. Not quarterly spikes. Though I agree that the pattern is fascinating :).

Re: Google+ passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day.

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Post by dannyr »

timdorr wrote: post #4

Users are one thing, active users are another. How many posts are being made? Are they just signing up for these accounts and never coming back? There's a reason Facebook and Twitter quote active users when announcing how many people are actually using their products.

Give them a break. It's been out for just 6 months.

I bet that in the early days of Facebook & Twitter, they were not releasing their number of active users either.

I remember when I signed up for Facebook in 2007. None of my friends were there. They were still on Friendster.

History should teach us a lesson that growing a social network takes time.

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