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Google+ Is Outpacing Twitter

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Re: Google+ Is Outpacing Twitter

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Post by mcescalante »

programminggeek wrote: post #3

The only feature of Google+ that is really interesting to me is hangouts. That is a social thing that I use at work almost every day, but it doesn't really fit the traditional social network model, and it doesn't help Google make advertising money.

Sounds to me like it's a prime candidate for some of Google's famed "spring cleaning" in the coming years...

Re: Google+ Is Outpacing Twitter

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Post by vor_ »

This has been explained before. Google+ numbers can be misleading because they're tied to other services. The article mentions this:

"The reasons behind Google Plus's growth -- it now can boast 359 million active users, up 33 percent from 269 million users at the end of June 2012, according to GlobalWebIndex -- are complex and tied to Google's effort to build a connecting layer across all its services, including search, YouTube, maps and other products. Log into one, and you've logged into the lot."

Re: Google+ Is Outpacing Twitter

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Post by blappu »

Why doesn't Google just provide a tool to import a user's full Facebook data into Google+ with a single click?

They could even do it without the user's consent for people using Chrome or Android, or they could pay people to do so (it might cost them 10 billions, but it would be quite a good "company" to "acquire").

Without doing that, or having some killer feature, there's no way that they will take off.

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