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Five times more users, that stayed.

• sambeau 15y ago
  No. 5x more traffic.
  • wnight 15y ago
    Oh, thanks.
• potatolicious 15y ago
  And yet still a decidedly non-mainstream audience: http://socialstatistics.com/top/people/followers/0 http://socialstatistics.com/top/people/followers/0 G+ has no hope unless they can somehow break into the mainstream. It's not looking good right now.
  • wnight 15y ago
    Quit changing the topic. You asked "How is this a success for Google+?" What's the bar now? Suddenly being #1? Anyways, whatever. I'm not on G+ because I'm not a fan of their real-name policy and I certainly don't care if they win or lose. I was just pointing out that you were playing the same game the newspaper was - asking a crazy question given the nearly five-times increase in traffic over a single month.
    • potatolicious 15y ago
      No topic was ever changed - we all know Google is in this game to beat (or at least, take a significant minority share) of Facebook's traffic. The number of users it gained need not be relevant to this goal - they need to gain the right users, and so far that's just not happening. They've won over the technorati, and puzzlingly enough, the photography community. But how many of your non-tech friends are actually on G+? Much less using it? > ""How is this a success for Google+?"" For one thing, that wasn't me. But let's say it was. Your claim that traffic jumped by 5x is supposed to imply that this was a success for Google - but it's nothing of the sort. Without breaking into the mainstream, Google has no hope of capturing the type of market share, ever, that they are clearly after. Google is not in this to build a niche social network for the techno-elite. > "What's the bar now? Suddenly being #1" What a ridiculous straw man. Nobody says G+ needs to be #1 overnight. But at least movement in the right direction (i.e., mainstream appeal) is necessary if one is to reasonably claim that G+ is succeeding. That's simply not happening. > "I was just pointing out that you were playing the same game the newspaper was - asking a crazy question given the nearly five-times increase in traffic over a single month." The newspaper asked a relevant question. Are we supposed to just blindly swallow any number and interpret it in the default manner? By your logic, Groupon is smashingly successful company with strong growth numbers - but we know it's not playing well into their end-game. Neither is this playing into G+'s desired endgame.
  • jarek 15y ago
    So 5 out of 10 most followed users are mainstream celebrities three and a half months after launch? Seems pretty good to me.