Google+ passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day. • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by onemoreact » Wed, Dec 28, 2011, 5:03 AM UTC

chancho wrote: post #69

ikirill wrote: post #67

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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.)

Gmail might be 'the best', but not enough to get a everyone to switch. So, IMO it's a question of where your suck threshold than anything specifically wrong with Hotmail / yahoo.

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

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Post by rkon » Wed, Dec 28, 2011, 5:19 AM UTC

Profiles? Sure. Users? No... not even close.

It's actually rather telling when the only way to make Google+ sound popular is to count meaningless automatic signups.

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

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Post by squiggly101 » Wed, Dec 28, 2011, 5:29 AM UTC

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…

The problem with Google+ is there are too many people like you there - perhaps which is why you are blind to it.

Facebook is full of human beings sharing their lives - Google+ is full of jerks who see Facebook as an API. Friend that? No thanks.

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

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Post by atularora » Wed, Dec 28, 2011, 6:02 AM UTC

Is there any correlation between G+ new users and new Android activations? One is 625K and the other is 700K per day. Just curious.

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

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Post by MarkMc » Wed, Dec 28, 2011, 6:11 AM UTC

One measure of the relative popularity of Google+ and Facebook is to compare the number of 'likes' with '+1s' on a popular page. For example, on the following page there are currently 64 '+1s' and 260 'likes': http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/lego-is-for-girls-12142...

By this measure, Google+ is at 25% of Facebook. I remember when Google+ went into 'anybody-can-use-it' mode a few months ago it was only around 5%. This suggests Google+ is doing quite nicely, thank you. But perhaps it is just showing how Google+ is becoming more popular with spammers...?

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

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Post by duckfruit » Wed, Dec 28, 2011, 7:37 AM UTC

MarkMc wrote: post #85

One measure of the relative popularity of Google+ and Facebook is to compare the number of 'likes' with '+1s' on a popular page. For example, on the following page there are currently 64 '+1s' and 260 'likes': http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/lego-is-for-girls-12142... By this measure, Google+ is at 25% of Facebook. I remember when Google+ went into 'anybody-can-use-it' mode a few months ago it was only around 5%…

To be fair, the comparison might not be entirely accurate since it is possible to 'plus one' something while just being a gmail/youtube user -- without necessarily being an active google+ user.

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Post by marcog1 » Wed, Dec 28, 2011, 8:19 AM UTC

cheald wrote: post #61

cytzol wrote: post #53

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> 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…

Facebook now has asymmetric relationships with subscriptions, and the app platform noisiness has improved a great deal in recent years. I just block apps which are particularly noisy.

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Post by justincormack » Wed, Dec 28, 2011, 8:37 AM UTC

fpgeek wrote: post #47

justincormack wrote: post #23

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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.