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Why not? Is it that hard to believe that 6 million of the people that joined Google Plus early on are software engineers? I could believe it. They probably sign
by sukuriant 15y ago
Why not? Is it that hard to believe that 6 million of the people that joined Google Plus early on are software engineers? I could believe it. They probably signed up to try and get involved, and a developer would be more likely to sign up to beta software than a non-developer, I would imagine.
note: these are my speculations.
- orangecat 15y agoWhy not? Is it that hard to believe that 6 million of the people that joined Google Plus early on are software engineers? According to the BLS there are 3.2 million Americans in "Computer and mathematical occupations" (http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ocwage.htm http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ocwage.htm), and there seems to be a reasonable consensus that 12 million is an upper bound for the world (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/453880/how-many-developers-are-there-in-the-world http://stackoverflow.com/questions/453880/how-many-developer...). There's no way 6 million are on Google+ already.
- citricsquid 15y agoover 40% of the top users listed on both sites cited by the article don't work as a software engineer. The majority of people I have in my circles are not software engineers. Assuming I am the average person then my own experience conflicts with that. However that wasn't my point, neither of the sources they cite (findpeopleonplus.com, socialstatistics.com) back up this assertion. If you look at findpeopleonplus, it says out of the 947,996 people it has that 65,733 are an engineer/developer type. That's less than 10%.