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What was FB's initial college roll out? Tens of thousands of users? I suspect Google would have several times that many in the few minutes of a full roll out.
by bmj 15y ago
What was FB's initial college roll out? Tens of thousands of users? I suspect Google would have several times that many in the few minutes of a full roll out.
- cdcarter 15y agoWell, Harvard's UG enrollment is about 7k.
- klipt 15y agoFB's initial roll out was to people in the same (real life) social circles. You can't do social networking with a bunch of random people across the world.
- alttab 15y agoThis hits a nail on the head. Facebook knew the primary target for it's initial growth. Who is Google+ targeting first for early adoption? Google does so many things for many different people. Opening it up to the world outright is technically dangerous, but Facebook had a very natural progression for rolling out because they had identified and located their market. Google isn't so lucky. + is designed at the Facebook user base, but isnt considering the history or the trajectory of Facebook users. I'd imagine the only reason google cares about social at all is because it is a significant source of revenue in an industry they want to own (advertising). All that said I'm going to set up an account when it's my turn.