I wonder at what point google will kill orkut and move over all the users and their connections to G+ that will add a few million users
Google+ accounted for 35% of Tweeted news links last week
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#12I think this says as much about twitters user base as it goes about g+.
My first thought.
"Twitter's largest user group still SEO/SEM people" would have been a fitting title too.
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#13I have always found Twitter to be very useful, getting a lot of great links and news items from people I follow. That said yesterday I never visited Twitter until late in the evening. I was using G+ yesterday instead.
I find little value in Facebook but family members and some friends really use it a lot.
I hope that Twitter, Google+, and Facebook all do well because they serve different people's needs (or wants) and all three are platforms for developers, basically the ocean a lot of us live in.
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#14I'm interested to hear how much penetration G+ has had amongst everyone's social groups. Personally I just have one circle right now made up of work friends. They're all pretty technical; about 60% of them were on both my Facebook and Twitter, and the other 40% were just on Facebook. I was looking forward to using a social tool where I could share and hear more from that other 40%, but they haven't been posting much…
Less than 0.1 percent of the people in my hometown (35 of 42,000 – it’s a small town in Germany) have signed up, so few that I could actually count them and look at all of them.
No one I know has signed up or expressed desire to sign up. (I was, however, not asking anyone to sign up. That’s not something I would ever do.)
It will be interesting to see when the first person I know signs up.
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#15I'm interested to hear how much penetration G+ has had amongst everyone's social groups. Personally I just have one circle right now made up of work friends. They're all pretty technical; about 60% of them were on both my Facebook and Twitter, and the other 40% were just on Facebook. I was looking forward to using a social tool where I could share and hear more from that other 40%, but they haven't been posting much…
For me, it's started to. The first days were like you've described, but yesterday, several non-technical people signed on and seemed to attach pretty well.
In fact, my friend's mom added me to a circle yesterday, and she's a choir director.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think you misinterpreted the headline/article. When it says "Tweets" it means "On Twitter" (i.e. "Tweet" has not become a generic term for sharing a link regardless of platform). So it's saying that 35% of the news links posted to twitter.com had to do with Google+.
If I understood him right, I think he means while news about G+ is all over Twitter and in fact, everywhere, the other side of the coin is that even on G+, all you see is discussion about G+ itself. In other words, G+ is still in the buzzy meta phase. Only when people on G+ stop talking G+ that things start to mean something.
Indeed, and I thought Douglas H. would get a kick of something that talks about itself (see his book Godel, Escher, Bach for a ton of recursive stuff...).
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#17I'm interested to hear how much penetration G+ has had amongst everyone's social groups. Personally I just have one circle right now made up of work friends. They're all pretty technical; about 60% of them were on both my Facebook and Twitter, and the other 40% were just on Facebook. I was looking forward to using a social tool where I could share and hear more from that other 40%, but they haven't been posting much…
Mine is beginning to grow now. My friends circle is up to about 33, while geeks (which has SOME overlap but not all) is up to about 30. Family has one or two. I believe total I have about 56 folks there now.
I would say most of mine are either folks I know in real life (or network/contacts that I've made over the years in the tech world) and some other random friends from Facebook.
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#18From the twitter spritzer feed, only ~0.05-0.10% of tweets contained "Google+". So the headline seems a little fishy to me, although of course not all tweets contain a "Tweeted news link".
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#19Twitter? Hell, look at Hacker News' constant stream of Google+ submissions. It's just like when Wave came out. You heard about it constantly.