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The Top 100 most popular Google+ users
- jpdelatorre 15y agoInteresting... Mark Z. has more followers than Larry and Sergey.
- tilt 15y agoThat's about the "surprise"-buzz of seeing him registered
- waterlesscloud 15y agoAlso, Larry and Sergey don't have a movie about them.
- nextparadigms 15y agoIt's because it's ironic and finding him on Google+ made his profile go viral, and blogs posting about it.
- joejohnson 15y agoI still find it ironic that Mark Zuckerberg is on G+
- yichi 15y agoit's more ironic that he's the top user
- nextparadigms 15y agoEveryone wants to see if he says anything about Google+, but so far he didn't post anything in public.
- theblueadept111 15y agoWould it be considered bad taste to ask him for an invite?
- ry0ohki 15y agoHe also invested in Diaspora, I think he wants to avoid the mistakes a lot of companies make when they are in the lead, and just sit on his laurels.
- patrickaljord 15y agoHe made a small donation to Diaspora, he didn't "invest" in it.
- jpdelatorre 15y agoHe's also on Twitter
- Tyrant505 15y agoI don't. I always check out competitors work.
- albertzeyer 15y agoI thought/think this is a face account. Is there any evidence that this is real?
- michaelschade 15y agoRobert Scoble texted Zuck to verify, which he did. Source: https://twitter.com/#!/Scobleizer/status/87321128783192064 https://twitter.com/#!/Scobleizer/status/87321128783192064 (note: he meant "Google account" specifically in reference to "Google Plus account", verified elsewhere).
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- re 15y agoWhat's with all the 0-friend Google employees?
- tilt 15y agoHaven't played with settings that much yet but it could easily be they're "hiding" people in their circles.
- spullara 15y agoThat is correct. Apparently that feature was made for them since few others on that list do the same.
- tonfa 15y agoWhy would you do a social network with a focus on privacy and not use those settings? ;)
- tilt 15y agoI don't think this has been done for them. I think we'll need to teach people how to be "Social" on internet from scratch when G+ hits the masses. Facebook has done a terrible job so far. Being "Social" doesn't mean being "open", and it has nothing to do with privacy. The fact you know people doesn't mean you want the world (or anyone of your "Friends") to know it. I mean this has unlimited user cases (except on Facebook) but one could be about "Business" Circles. Anyway, back to the question, indeed is a setting and even a easy one (good job, again): Network Visibility.
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- jpdelatorre 15y agoWill be very surprised if Bill Gates is on G+ although he's on Twitter. One thing for sure, Steve Jobs will never be there.
- jrockway 15y agoIs he on any social networks? For all the imagined rivalry between Jobs and Google, doesn't the iPhone still use Google Maps?
- basugasubaku 15y agoHe had a personal Facebook account but quit after being unable to keep up with all the friend requests. Now he has a Facebook fan page.
- mpk 15y agoWhat always surprises me about lists like this is that there are people who follow thousands of others and they still get taken seriously.
- ipince 15y agoWhy is that surprising? What's wrong about following thousands of people?
- mpk 15y agoFollowing people implies at least a very basic interest in what they have to say. You can't follow more than a few hundred people and still keep track of what they're saying (and that's with a low average post count). If you're following thousands you're either a bot or just racking up numbers in which case the follow relationship is totally meaningless.
- petercooper 15y agoI would have agreed with you once but now I think that, to a certain extent, maintaining social connections can be a bit like physical fitness. I could say you can't run under a 4 minute mile or a single race of > 100 miles, yet people have and do while almost none of us on HN ever will. My change of heart has come after 5 years of using Twitter. I could only follow 100 people well at first but somehow it crept up and up. I've had quite a few culls and now I'm at 1000 people I follow and whenever I go through the list I recognize almost every name. It's not quite a 4 minute mile but I've been able to get at least a feel for those 1000 folks and know they're ones I appreciate following.
- kragen 15y agoOn Google+, you can quite reasonably follow thousands of others and still keep track of everything your friends and family post, plus the occasional random.
- mashmac2 15y agoOnly one of the top 50 who can't/don't capitalize their name: Michael Arrington.
- DrCatbox 15y agoI cant find myself on the list, when was it made?
- akavi 15y agoInteresting that the only non-Anglophones seem to Chinese, and that many of those names appear to be pseudonyms.
- bonch 15y agoHalf the HN front page, as of this writing, is Google links.
- derwiki 15y agoIt's been like that all week. Say what you want about g+, being that consistently on HN is remarkable.
- Niksko 15y agoThat's it. Twist the knife a little more for us suckers who don't have Google+ invites.
- gwern 15y agoHere, let me twist it a little more. I got sent an invite today. Curious, I followed the link to see what it was like. It told me I wasn't allowed in because my browser was unsupported although of course Firefox was supported. My browser is Debian unstable's Iceweasel. So I gave up and did something else.
- Peroni 15y agoSend me your address to my email (in my profile) and I'll send you an invite.
- thret 15y agoI'm quite happy to see Felicia Day #43. She's the hot gamer/geek from The Guild webshow.
- joshu 15y agoHa, I'm #60 on the list. I've said two things so far.
- flocial 15y agoI think this perfectly illustrates the trade off of leveraging existing connections. I'm sure this list would be similar for any other "social network" that doesn't launch from scratch and build their user base exclusively by word of mouth.
- tracert 15y agoDo these appear to be Google buzz stats to anyone else? Why did it redirect to zuck's buzz?
- enterneo 15y agoI want researchers to come on G+