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Google Plus - approx 100 million users as of 2012-02-16

#1

Post by weinerk » Thu, Feb 16, 2012, 11:56 AM UTC

  Google Plus - approx 100 million users as of 2012-02-16
  
  I am just following up on research from Paul Allen 
  https://plus.google.com/117388252776312694644/posts/bGJPTALDkDe
  http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2747710
  
  I added a couple more recent samples (threw out a few names)
  
  
  | Date:      |  07/09/11 |   09/21/11 |   09/25/11 |   10/02/11 |   11/11/11 |    02/16/12 |
  | Approx:    | 4,700,000 | 29,372,543 | 41,308,415 | 45,942,757 | 53,690,671 | 111,501,048 |
  |            |           |            |            |            |            |             |
  | Maring     |         9 |         50 |         65 |         72 |         91 |         210 |
  | Shireman   |        12 |         43 |         59 |         65 |         74 |         135 |
  | Toepfer    |        13 |         68 |         79 |         88 |        101 |         181 |
  | Fredenburg |         3 |         23 |         35 |         39 |         49 |         105 |
  | Louderback |         4 |         38 |         53 |         58 |         62 |         111 |
  | Wilcoxen   |         8 |         20 |         40 |         48 |         51 |         112 |
  | Lewter     |         6 |         23 |         30 |         33 |         42 |         103 |
  | McTigue    |         9 |         49 |         61 |         65 |         74 |         156 |

Re: Google Plus - approx 100 million users as of 2012-02-16

#2

Post by hacker_jumper » Thu, Feb 16, 2012, 12:45 PM UTC

Impressive, but are they active? Google now makes you sign up for gmail and activates a google plus account even if you create a new youtube account. I think its youtube which is pushing it given more and more footage is being uploaded every minute - you need accounts to do so! and there's a host of other google services people are interested in too, so the line is blury.

But well done to Google anyway, still impressive signing up more people no matter what product.

Re: Google Plus - approx 100 million users as of 2012-02-16

#3

Post by brudgers » Thu, Feb 16, 2012, 4:09 PM UTC

hacker_jumper wrote: post #2

Impressive, but are they active? Google now makes you sign up for gmail and activates a google plus account even if you create a new youtube account. I think its youtube which is pushing it given more and more footage is being uploaded every minute - you need accounts to do so! and there's a host of other google services people are interested in too, so the line is blury. But well done to Google anyway, still impress…

Certainly that is the case with my plus account.

I have a plus account because I have a gmail account which is pretty much exclusively used for my Facebook account (Facebook runs in it's own exclusive Ubuntu VM).

Re: Google Plus - approx 100 million users as of 2012-02-16

#4

Post by dreamdu5t » Thu, Feb 16, 2012, 8:45 PM UTC

What percentage even have a profile pic selected or have posted a single thing to their plus profile?

Re: Google Plus - approx 100 million users as of 2012-02-16

#5

Post by keecham » Fri, Feb 17, 2012, 2:19 AM UTC

dreamdu5t wrote: post #4

What percentage even have a profile pic selected or have posted a single thing to their plus profile?

I know my one and only post was to ask if anyone out there was even using it.

And... no one replied.

Re: Google Plus - approx 100 million users as of 2012-02-16

#6

Post by AlanNowogrodski » Fri, Feb 17, 2012, 6:30 PM UTC

Yea, agree...100m signups means nothing. They are forcing you to signup. I want to know how many people visit Google+ at least once a week. That number is gotta be sad.