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Obviously anecdotal. One explanation might be G+ international popularity. A quick look at "what's hot" and you'll see plenty of center and eastern asian names

Obviously anecdotal. One explanation might be G+ international popularity. A quick look at "what's hot" and you'll see plenty of center and eastern asian names on the comments. The Android developer relations team makes weekly public hangouts in different time zones. I tried a few different ones out of curiosity and noticed that both the Indian and Brazilian ones are much more popular than the american hangout (which is the only that is live from the Googleplex, so you'd assume this would be the most popular). Maybe the bunch of google+ audience just happen to not be part of your social circle. Personally, I'd love to see some g+ usage statistics divided by demographics to confirm this hypothesis. (specially since the author explicits these numbers are from US only, not sure if that's right) edit: G+ also seem to be extremely popular on very specific niches other than technology. Such as photograph and science. In fact, g+ developers make a big deal about their product being developed from and to photographers. You'll notice their mobile app focuses the whole experience on large beautiful photos because of it. Every day there's a different photographer-focused hashtag trending (today it's #TreeTuesday). So yea, anecdotes, bad.

larrys 14y ago
"One explanation might be G+ international popularity." Another explanation is that it's impossible to sign up for any google product (like gmail) w/o getting herded into google plus.
- icebraining 14y ago
  They aren't counting the number of registrations but hits. Registrations will have a minimal effect on that.
- dredmorbius 14y ago
  GMail numbers weren't broken out, but YouTube rivals Facebook at ~150m uniques monthly. There's been a lot made of FB (and other social networks) primarily being photo-sharing networks. While I doubt video will ever quite have the same impact (they're deeper but not as casually shared), it probably will grow as a social element, and Google are beautifully positioned in this regard.
  - taligent 14y ago
    You seem to be implying that video is some new trend to social networks. It isn't. So I fail to see what Google+ brings to the table other than an inbuilt video chat client which has been done so many times over the last decade.
    - dredmorbius 14y ago
      It's a growing trend, not necessarily new. Phones have video recorders, and quality and proliferation are growing. Again, YouTube's in the pole position, this is its race to lose. Technology, even once widely available, can take a while to take off.
kalleboo 14y ago
> One explanation might be G+ international popularity Google have been doing a TON of PR in Japan. They're doing a collaboration[0] with Japan's top J-Pop group (AKB48, with 200+ members) where they gave them all high-end Samsung phones and G+ accounts to post on. Some popular members used to post on Twitter and Ameblo, but this has extended to all members. They've also done exclusive G+ live streams of concerts, and when the group had their yearly popularity contest, Google+ had a live stream with live +1 buttons that graphed the mood over time[1]. I imagine they've also been recruiting other celebrities in Japan to drive adoption. [0] http://www.google.com/intl/en/+/project48/ http://www.google.com/intl/en/+/project48/ [1] http://www.akb48plus.com/senkyo/en/teaser.html http://www.akb48plus.com/senkyo/en/teaser.html
- gurkendoktor 14y ago
  I'm in Taiwan and I sometimes see ads like "Follow your favorite pop stars on Google+!"

larrys 14y ago

"One explanation might be G+ international popularity." Another explanation is that it's impossible to sign up for any google product (like gmail) w/o getting herded into google plus.

icebraining 14y ago
They aren't counting the number of registrations but hits. Registrations will have a minimal effect on that.
dredmorbius 14y ago
GMail numbers weren't broken out, but YouTube rivals Facebook at ~150m uniques monthly. There's been a lot made of FB (and other social networks) primarily being photo-sharing networks. While I doubt video will ever quite have the same impact (they're deeper but not as casually shared), it probably will grow as a social element, and Google are beautifully positioned in this regard.
- taligent 14y ago
  You seem to be implying that video is some new trend to social networks. It isn't. So I fail to see what Google+ brings to the table other than an inbuilt video chat client which has been done so many times over the last decade.
  - dredmorbius 14y ago
    It's a growing trend, not necessarily new. Phones have video recorders, and quality and proliferation are growing. Again, YouTube's in the pole position, this is its race to lose. Technology, even once widely available, can take a while to take off.

kalleboo 14y ago

> One explanation might be G+ international popularity Google have been doing a TON of PR in Japan. They're doing a collaboration[0] with Japan's top J-Pop group (AKB48, with 200+ members) where they gave them all high-end Samsung phones and G+ accounts to post on. Some popular members used to post on Twitter and Ameblo, but this has extended to all members. They've also done exclusive G+ live streams of concerts, and when the group had their yearly popularity contest, Google+ had a live stream with live +1 buttons that graphed the mood over time[1]. I imagine they've also been recruiting other celebrities in Japan to drive adoption. [0] http://www.google.com/intl/en/+/project48/ http://www.google.com/intl/en/+/project48/ [1] http://www.akb48plus.com/senkyo/en/teaser.html http://www.akb48plus.com/senkyo/en/teaser.html

gurkendoktor 14y ago
I'm in Taiwan and I sometimes see ads like "Follow your favorite pop stars on Google+!"