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

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

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Post by cheald »

cytzol wrote: post #53
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…

> I've never been a fan of Facebook. This is something that's puzzled me . Is it the privacy implications, or just a general dislike for the company? The way I see it, it's a publishing platform for posts shorter than blog entries and longer than tweets. I read things that my friends write, and I write things for them to read. While there are games and pages and things, you don't have to use them. I've had friends sw…

Before the privacy stuff became a concern, I just didn't like the product. The whole symmetric relationship model just never really hooked me. It's not any particular philosophical hatred. I just never "got it" like others seemed to. I understand it, but it was never the sort of thing that I was constantly refreshing.

It wasn't very useful to me before the whole app platform thing, and after the app platform launched, it quickly became too noisy and cluttered.

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

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Post by murz »

rabble wrote: post #59

My question is what happened the week of September 18th? That was when Google+ went from flatlining to a huge jump in growth, then followup growth. Anybody know? My guess is something to do with android pushing folks to sign up, or maybe them pushing it through gmail or google logins. Something changed and they restarted the growth curve with a big spike.

I think the spike you are seeing correlates to the transition from a "field trial" (invite-only) product, to a public product.

This is the blog post announcing open signups and it is dated September 20th: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/google-92-93-94-95-96...

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

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Post by stonemetal »

fpgeek wrote: post #48
justincormack wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If you are signed in to google for any reason(gmail, docs, etc.) and are a G+ user you are signed in to G+. They put a G+ specific notification area on the black bar across the top. I would hope active user meant something more than signed up and has checked their gmail account at least once in the past 28 days.

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

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Post by zobzu »

dannyr wrote: post #50
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.

FB or twitter don't have the registration right on google.com itself, or the like.

it's not comparable.

that being said I think their rate of growth is very good. i also like the G+ UI a lot more, it's pretty good.

The only thing I dislike is that it's one more thing that Google fully control and doesn't really open up.

Note that I actually dislike both for privacy reasons as well.

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

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Post by kzrdude »

WhatsHisName wrote: post #21

I just can't get past the feeling that Google+ violates my privacy. I've started using Facebook which I ultimately regret because it's invasive, too controlling, and has stupidity embedded in it. In the end these kinds of forums are the only ones I find worthwhile anyway. I don't care what my real friends think about what I like, and don't want anyone else I know to judge me. Why am I letting people I don't even know…

I use facebook. Why am I not registering for G+? Well:

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me!

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

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Post by bodegajed »

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…

> All the Google+ hate sort of puzzles me

Because Google became evil. Remember when Microsoft pre-installed IE in windows? It's the same thing when Google placed G+ in gmail.

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

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Post by ikirill »

bodegajed wrote: post #66
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…

> All the Google+ hate sort of puzzles me Because Google became evil. Remember when Microsoft pre-installed IE in windows? It's the same thing when Google placed G+ in gmail.

I'm afraid I don't follow. Could you elaborate on how that means they became evil?

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Post by melling »

bodegajed wrote: post #66
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…

> All the Google+ hate sort of puzzles me Because Google became evil. Remember when Microsoft pre-installed IE in windows? It's the same thing when Google placed G+ in gmail.

I do remember...

Microsoft had 95% of desktop market share and installed IE on everyone's PC, which they claimed was part of the operating system. This essentially killed the browser competition for about a decade and Netscape got crushed.

Now how is this comparable to Google placing G+ in Gmail? Gmail is smaller than Hotmail and Yahoo Mail? They are a distant third.

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

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Post by chancho »

ikirill wrote: post #67
bodegajed wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> All the Google+ hate sort of puzzles me Because Google became evil. Remember when Microsoft pre-installed IE in windows? It's the same thing when Google placed G+ in gmail.

I'm afraid I don't follow. Could you elaborate on how that means they became evil?

Because Google has a monopoly on non-shitty free email with GMail, in the same way that Microsoft has (had?) a monopoly on hardware-independent operating systems with DOS/Windows. (I wish I was really being sarcastic, you know because there are actually a billion web-based e-mail alternatives besides GMail that actually don't suck... right? Anybody know of any? At this point I'm earnestly inquiring.)
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