Define "outpace"
In terms of sharing popularity, printing out a webpage is 100X more popular than Google+: http://karmcity.com/post/49275229257/the-value-of-share-butt...
Google+ Is Outpacing Twitter
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Re: Google+ Is Outpacing Twitter
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Facebook has a long history of disabling that sort of system.
Uh? That's impossible to do. Facebook already provides a way to download all your data, so Google just needs to write software that uses it and uploads it into Google+. Alternatively, they can just automatically scrape the Facebook website via HTTP directly from the user's machine (using a modified Chrome, modified Android, desktop tool or Android app).
If I'm not mistaken, facebook owns their information. Taking it directly would violate their ToS. It would need to be a two-step process if it were to work at all: a user downloads their information locally, and uploads it to g+
Re: Google+ Is Outpacing Twitter
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Facebook has a long history of disabling that sort of system.
Uh? That's impossible to do. Facebook already provides a way to download all your data, so Google just needs to write software that uses it and uploads it into Google+. Alternatively, they can just automatically scrape the Facebook website via HTTP directly from the user's machine (using a modified Chrome, modified Android, desktop tool or Android app).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act
edit: for the downvoter, I hardly support the abuse of laws like this, but that doesn't mean they won't be abused. Google writing a scraper is something that might well attract legal trouble from this and other vague computer security laws.
Re: Google+ Is Outpacing Twitter
#24This 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 sear…
And Twitter's numbers are extraordinarily misleading, because so many of their accounts are fake, and so many people just sign up but never really use the service.
Re: Google+ Is Outpacing Twitter
#25Facebook's where I go for social stuff. Twitter's largely replaced RSS. Google+ has two uses:
# It's where my Androids upload to
# It's where I get tech news - Linus, Greg KH, O'Reilly, etc. all post on G+
I tend to hope G+ doesn't become as popular as Facebook with the general public, because right now it's got a really good signal:noise ratio and I'd hate to see it drown in Farmville updates and cat photos..
Re: Google+ Is Outpacing Twitter
#26Well, i hope so. I still don't get the value of twitter, it always seemed to me as overrated. Why 140 characters? External services for photo upload? I still don't get it.. How is [1] better then [2]?! [1] http://www.imagebanana.com/view/okt9mdpq/obamatwitter.png [2] http://www.imagebanana.com/view/ma3vuvby/obamagooglep.png I hope i don't start a religious war now, just saying although i have a twitter account i neve…
> Why 140 characters?
Historical. Twitter started out as a web-sms gateway.
> I still don't get the value of twitter
The value is in social capital. Important people post there exclusively.
> How is [1] better then [2]?!
It isnt. But [2] came to the scene after [1] so [1] has a bigger momentum. Being slightly better does not mean everybody suddenly will switch. The perceived improvement has to be bigger than the cost of switching.
Re: Google+ Is Outpacing Twitter
#27Facebook's where I go for social stuff. Twitter's largely replaced RSS. Google+ has two uses: # It's where my Androids upload to # It's where I get tech news - Linus, Greg KH, O'Reilly, etc. all post on G+ I tend to hope G+ doesn't become as popular as Facebook with the general public, because right now it's got a really good signal:noise ratio and I'd hate to see it drown in Farmville updates and cat photos..
Just group people in circles and read the one you want.
Re: Google+ Is Outpacing Twitter
#28A lot of skeptics here (as usual!) Well I use both Google+ and Facebook every day and to me Google+ seems VERY active with a lot of high quality content as well. I can't really say if it is more active than Twitter (which is also very active of course) but it certainly doesn't seem like "a ghost town" as some people try to claim.
I think Google+ has more active focussed communities of people using it (photographers, geeks) whereas Twitter has a wider variety of content.
Re: Google+ Is Outpacing Twitter
#29What you mean is: Millions of people activated G+ so they can use Youtube and other Google services without Google getting in their face every 2 seconds to activate g+
So you're saying they're discovered a way to spend money maintaining a huge community that nobody actually uses!
Quick, give that CEO another bonus!
Re: Google+ Is Outpacing Twitter
#30The 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...
Can we just fuck right off with the whining about Reader at this point?