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Larry Page On Google+: Over 10 Million Users, 1 Billion Items Shared
- tilt 15y ago"users are sharing 1 billion items per day" "the network has already accumulated 13 percent of Facebook’s 750 million users in two weeks" Now, that's impressive
- thurn 15y agoIt would be more impressive if TechCrunch were better at math... 13% of Facebook's monthly active users would be 100 million, not 10 million.
- Shenglong 15y agoI was thinking this too. How could the editor not catch this?
- petervandijck 15y agoThey don't have editors.
- pjama 15y ago10 / 750 equal to 1.3% Am I missing something?
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- jcampbell1 15y agoSharing a billion items per day is obviously false as it would imply 100 items shared per user on average.
- Shenglong 15y agoUnless they're counting everyone you're sharing to as a different "share"?
- tilt 15y agoand +1s
- jcampbell1 15y agoThat must be how they are counting it. If larry page shares or +1's 10 things, then it would count as 1M shares.
- jnhnum1 15y agoI doubt they're counting once per recipient, but people could easily be sharing 100 items on average if you count photos , reshares, and +1's.
- btilly 15y agoDon't forget comments! Comments make up the bulk of my activity.
- WestCoastJustin 15y ago"At 10 million users, the network has already accumulated 13 percent of Facebook's 750 million users in two weeks". My math skills aren't what they used to be but 10m != 13% of 750m. 13% of 750,000,000 = 97,500,000. I think we're looking at ~1.3% ;)
- andrewcooke 15y agolook at the comments on https://plus.google.com/106189723444098348646/posts/dRtqKJCbpZ7?hl=en https://plus.google.com/106189723444098348646/posts/dRtqKJCb... (larry page's original post). why do people do this? i'm assuming they're random people on the internet. why do they feel the need to publicly associate themselves with a huge company's quarterly results? is it something like wanting to be seen with the cool kids at school? it goes on and on - pages and pages of "google!!!11!!". their own fragment of the american dream? or maybe people within google jockeying for visibility? perhaps people comment ironically - a bit like photobombing? i suppose you could respond with "andrew, why do you post on hn asking q like this?". and i guess there's some kind of cachet in not being in the crowd. but i really do find it odd. i can only imagine myself making a comment like that if i was in some kind of super-happy-smashed situation like a great party. the context just doesn't fit. are those people really all "hey, yeah" in their real lives at this moment? weird, man. also, is g+ going to implement vanity urls?
- pohl 15y agoI don't know what to tell you. What's the difference between this and cheering at a sporting event? People draw tribal boundaries where they want to. (I'm reminded of The Onion t-shirt that says "the sports team from my area is superior to the sports team from your area").
- andrewcooke 15y agothat's a good comparison. i'm just surprised people are the same with companies - particularly with google. people here in chile are pretty fanatical about football, but i can't imagine them posting the same kind of comments on, say, some mining company's web page. so what's the difference? is this specific to web companies? social media [i guess maybe this]? thinking more, i guess it's the whole identifying with brands thing. so google is now like apple or nike? again, i suppose it's obvious, but i wasn't aware that google was that kind of company. i guess it changed? what do people own that they've got from google? could it be android that's driving this? what's making people identify with google? going back to the "hey yeah" feeling. i've felt that with sport, sure. but do people really feel it with quarterly earnings? this isn't just snobbery - you grow up with a football team. i don't think i would have known what quarterly results were until i was, say, 20. can something you learn that late connect in the same way?
- redthrowaway 15y agoI'm happy for Google and it's success, but everyone's measuring the wrong statistics. Raw number of users isn't nearly as important as their interconnectedness. Facebook started at one school, moved to three, etc. Each new user was likely to encounter a number of people they knew using the service, and there was an instant value proposition for them. I don't get that sense from G+. Sure, there's millions of nerds on it, but I don't know many of them. Currently I have 3 real life friends using it, and a few people from school. The rest of my interaction with G+ consists of following people like Matt Cutts and Guido van Rossum. Don't get me wrong, that's an awesome feature, but I don't see it as being sufficient to bring the NORPs on board. I wouldn't be surprised to see G+'s growth plateau after the early adopters have all gotten their invites, until there's some value proposition for the current facebook/twitter crowd. On a tangentially related note, how awesome is it that there are 10 million early adopters out there?
- andrewjshults 15y agoWhile I've seen the usual batch of tech early adopters, I've also seen a large number of high school and college friends that are not in tech who have accounts and are using them. Granted, it's nowhere near the facebook level of penetration but my actual interactions with friends on it have been of higher quality (I barely use facebook so that may have a strongly confounding effect on my results), largely because I can control who different types of content goes to. I think the pervasiveness of G+ is going to go a long way in continuing to drive adoption and use. Facebook feels like a place I go to waste time, while G+ is always there when I'm inside of anything google (and between gmail, calendar and search that's at least once or twice an hour).
- redthrowaway 15y agoThat's my hope as well. I can see G+ actually being a productivity enchancer, rather than destroyer like facebook. YMMV on the non-geek uptake. I have family members in tech who are all over facebook, twitter, linkedin, and whatnot who still haven't signed up for an account on G+, so we'll see what happens in the coming weeks.
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- hook 15y agoKey difference: Facebook has 750 million active users. Google+ has 10 million users.
- jojopotato 15y agoFunnily enough, all users on G+ could be considered 30 day actives and probably most of them 7 day actives by virtue of the fact that the service is so young :)
- ugh 15y agoThat’s not only funny, that’s also why said difference is currently meaningless. The ten million users are also active users. The interesting question will be whether they will still be in a month (or, alternatively, whether Google+ gains so many new users that a few million lost active users don’t matter).
- ippisl 15y agoI think hangout use statistics would be really interesting. anybody got any idea/estimate about those ?
- akshat 15y agoHow does this number compare to that of Wave/Buzz? I would not be surprised if Wave/Buzz garnered similar numbers when they were first released.
- sahaj 15y agoProbably not. I use Buzz quite a bit and noticed that more of my contacts are using G+ than they did Buzz.