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Lan wrote on 2011-07-13 06:15
Google’s social network, Google+, might be one of the fastest-growing networks ever, having already reached 10 million users according to one estimate.
Paul Allen, of Ancestry.com — not to be confused with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen — has developed an interesting methodology to calculate the number of Google+ members.
He sampled a number of surnames from the U.S. Census Bureau data and compared it to surnames of Google+ users. By comparing surname popularity in the U.S. with the number of users on Google+ with each surname, he can guesstimate the percentage of the U.S. population that signed up for Google+. Finally, he calculated a ratio of U.S. to non-U.S. users to generate an estimate for the number of Google+ users worldwide.
The result? Google+ has approximately 9.5 million users worldwide, with 2.2 million joining in the past 32 to 34 hours, according to Allen’s estimates.
This is amazing growth even for a giant such as Google: We cannot remember any social network reaching so many members so quickly after its release.
Coming from a third party, the data is obviously unofficial (we asked Google for comment on these numbers, but haven’t heard from them) and should be taken with a grain of salt. If they’re true, though, they indicate that — after so many stumbles — Google might finally be conquering the social networking arena.
http://mashable.com/2011/07/12/google-10-million/
And I still can't use it D:<
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Pierce wrote on 2011-07-13 06:18
Great news.
690M users to go. hehe
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Phunkie wrote on 2011-07-13 06:26
Anyone can register, check it out for 5 minutes and never come back again, especially since it just takes a Gmail account to access it, but who's actually using Google+? That'd be a better question.
Nonetheless, I have high hopes for it.
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Conor wrote on 2011-07-13 06:27
I still can't join it. :( Even with the invite from Joel, it says that they've exceeded their limit.
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Intex wrote on 2011-07-13 06:33
Quote from Conor;510393:
I still can't join it. :( Even with the invite from Joel, it says that they've exceeded their limit.
Same thing here. None of my friends are using it but apparently you can join social circles and hangouts with people on the internet over similar interests and have fun.
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Phunkie wrote on 2011-07-13 06:34
I read that Google's gonna open it up next week to whoever wants to join or something.
So maybe then?
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BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2011-07-13 08:49
Quote from Phigga;510391:
Anyone can register, check it out for 5 minutes and never come back again, especially since it just takes a Gmail account to access it, but who's actually using Google+? That'd be a better question.
Nonetheless, I have high hopes for it.
the cat hopes this will make facebook become forgotten like myspace
partly because it means farmville goes kaboo
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Shirayuki wrote on 2011-07-13 09:18
Quote from BobYoMeowMeow;510536:
the cat hopes this will make facebook become forgotten like myspace
partly because it means farmville goes kaboo
Google will have something like facebook games when they need more money.
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Kingofrunes wrote on 2011-07-13 10:59
My co-worker gave me an invite but I couldn't use it :/
I should have him resend it to my gmail account instead.
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Taycat wrote on 2011-07-13 11:31
Quote from BobYoMeowMeow;510536:
the cat hopes this will make facebook become forgotten like myspace
partly because it means farmville goes kaboo
Myspace is still there just....
Actually being called My[_____]
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Osayidan wrote on 2011-07-13 11:39
Quote from Phigga;510406:
I read that Google's gonna open it up next week to whoever wants to join or something.
So maybe then?
Not anyone. To use google+ you need something called google profiles, which for whatever reason doesn't exist on non-gmail google accounts. I use google's email and other services with google apps, for my own domain, like countless thousands of other people (possibly millions since there's a free version and it's easy to use). So the people who were most likely to want to try a new gogle service are left out until google finds a way to let us in Dx
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Kingofrunes wrote on 2011-07-13 11:41
I hear Myspace simply became a hotspot for music artists to go to.