Ok so his data shows 50 mil users Dec 1 and 62 mil users Dec 27 which is easy to calculate at 460k users a day not 625K. I'm more then willing to believe that

Ok so his data shows 50 mil users Dec 1 and 62 mil users Dec 27 which is easy to calculate at 460k users a day not 625K. I'm more then willing to believe that there were 625K+ users for Dec 25 and 26 though to extrapolate users for all of 2012 based on xmas day and the day after xmas sign ups of 2011 is absurd. Interest in google plus is fairly flat: http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=%22google%20plus%22%2Creddit%2Clinkedin%2Cflickr%2Cgoogle%2B&date=today%203-m&cmpt=q http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=%22google%20plus%22... For comparison's sake that is 10% of twitter and twitter is 10% of facebook.