Google+ passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day.
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#2Users? yeah right. More like spammers and bots from the software I've seen on the blackhat forums.
Spammers have learnt their lesson and now know age is a factor in deciding if it's a spam account or not and are getting in early and big.
Re: Google+ passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day.
#3Guess I'll state the question: How many of them actively use it? Yes, yes, before anyone jumps in with the "but you have to follow interesting people", I know that side of Google+.
My question is more targetted at all those people that (had to) make an account for w/e reason, but just don't open it anymore. I can only assume they are included too, are there estimates to their numbers?
Edit: I do use Google+, I just notice a lot of (seemingly?) 'dead' accounts.
Re: Google+ passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day.
#4Users 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.
Re: Google+ passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day.
#5I really don't want one company to control all of my services. I like that Google may have my email, MS/Google my search, and Facebook my social -- and that all three will have to learn to play together.
Re: Google+ passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day.
#6Users? yeah right. More like spammers and bots from the software I've seen on the blackhat forums. Spammers have learnt their lesson and now know age is a factor in deciding if it's a spam account or not and are getting in early and big.
I haven't heard that before. Wouldn't a real user be just as likely to join late (when a service has gone mainstream, bigged up by Oprah etc) as a spam account?
Re: Google+ passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day.
#7Guess I'll state the question: How many of them actively use it? Yes, yes, before anyone jumps in with the "but you have to follow interesting people", I know that side of Google+. My question is more targetted at all those people that (had to) make an account for w/e reason, but just don't open it anymore. I can only assume they are included too, are there estimates to their numbers? Edit: I do use Google+, I just n…
I agree... I see more dead accounts than live ones now. I don't think this service is in the success category at all at the moment.
I still use it fairly actively, though.
Re: Google+ passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day.
#8Guess I'll state the question: How many of them actively use it? Yes, yes, before anyone jumps in with the "but you have to follow interesting people", I know that side of Google+. My question is more targetted at all those people that (had to) make an account for w/e reason, but just don't open it anymore. I can only assume they are included too, are there estimates to their numbers? Edit: I do use Google+, I just n…
My own experience supports this. A lot of my friends have Google+ accounts but barely use them. However, once a critical mass of this sort of users exists, they should quickly "flash" to active users, as people realize that the bulk of their friends actually are on Google+.
Re: Google+ passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day.
#9Users 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.
Yes. For example, the Facebook numbers are always number of people who've logged in at least once in the last 28 or 30 days (or something) -- I'm sure the G+ people are computing this internally. The fact they don't report it implies it may be a bit low?
Re: Google+ passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day.
#10Guess I'll state the question: How many of them actively use it? Yes, yes, before anyone jumps in with the "but you have to follow interesting people", I know that side of Google+. My question is more targetted at all those people that (had to) make an account for w/e reason, but just don't open it anymore. I can only assume they are included too, are there estimates to their numbers? Edit: I do use Google+, I just n…
I remember twitter used to have a retention rate of 30% in 2009 when it was starting to get popular, and it was probably less so before that https://www.google.com/search?q=twitter+retention+rate+&... I used to see lots of twitter dead accounts at that time too.
If we apply this to google+, then it would be 18 million active users if the 60MM is to be believed. That being said, no numbers of active users have been announced so there is no way to know.