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This is like a reading news from Mars. Lots of martians doing something, somewhere. Interesting, but I really do not know any martian.
by atirip 14y ago
This is like a reading news from Mars. Lots of martians doing something, somewhere. Interesting, but I really do not know any martian.
- lawdawg 14y agoIf I was a betting man, I would say most of the usage is not in the USA and Europe. Probably primarily in India, Asia, and South America where Google products tend to get a ton of usage. That's really nothing to be ashamed of, but it really gives the impression that no one uses G+ when the tech press is primarily located in an area which doesn't see a ton of G+ usage.
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- mtgx 14y agoWhat do you mean? Like country by country, or in aggregate US vs non-US? Because even for Facebook, most of the usage would be non-US, obviously, since they have 1 billion users and there aren't that many people in US. But on country by country basis, Google+ gets the most users from US by far: http://www.datadial.net/blog/index.php/2012/02/22/google-demographics-a-look-at-the-top-5-countries-using-google-plus/ http://www.datadial.net/blog/index.php/2012/02/22/google-dem...
- brianbreslin 14y agoI wonder how they are pushing the millions of Orkut users into it. those were huge in brazil/india for a while.
- knowtheory 14y agoI know three separate communities of varying technical prowess who have ended up on Google+ and seem to be functioning quite happily (Members of the open data/open governance community, an extended science fiction community featuring some rather well known members such as the authors of the Expanse and SMBC, and folks like Yehuda Katz). Every last one of these people is based in the USA.
- fleitz 14y agoDon't worry 99,999,999 of the users are Scobilizer, the other is Vic Gundotra checking the user stats.
- k3n 14y agoIs that one of the services that will take your inane post made on 1 social platform and the mindlessly propagate it to all of the others that you have? If so, that's a point I wanted to bring up: does "active" mean, logs in and does stuff, or does "active" simply mean they're syndicating content to it?
- majani 14y agoNo, Scobleizer is a name for Robert Scoble, a well known Google+ power user.
- tomkarlo 14y agoUnlike FB or Twitter, it's relatively difficult to post content to Google+. They only recently opened up APIs to some third-party social media management tools like Hootsuite, and they're still not just open to anyone.
- mayanksinghal 14y agoWould you have made a similar comment if these numbers were for some other site, say Baidu or Rakuten?
- Wilya 14y agoThe most obvious difference is that I know who are the users of these sites. Google+ might be popular in a geographic part of the world, or among a certain community I'm not part of, just like Baidu is in China, Rakuten is in Japan, Vkontakte is in Russia, Orkut in brazil, etc. I just have no idea, and it seems I'm not the only one, what this demographic they have conquered is.
- nsns 14y agoI have a feeling most people here would be quite interested to hear news about martians.
- martian 14y agoHi, nice to meet you. In all seriousness, I think Google+ is a massive force. If you play the SEO game at all (and let's face it, most web companies do at least a little bit), then you have to pay attention to Google+ because it's showing up on search results. That makes those web companies more invested in getting their users to use Google+ and encourages adoption. Circular, strategic, very interesting to watch.
- ryanhuff 14y agoThat's the whole game, isn't it? Leverage your dominant market position in one area to win in another. These days, if you are a business, you have to play Google's game. And its not just web businesses. Its any business that markets to consumers. Leveraging their dominant position in search creates massive leverage to move people to G+.
- KirinDave 14y agoReally? You don't know anyone using G+? If so, you are missing out. The +1 feature alone is worth the non-price of pre-admission. Of course, I feel a similar way about Facebook. I know a lot of people use Facebook avidly, but I almost never do. Every time I log onto that site I regret it. At least on G+ I can aggressively tune out the boneheads with some hope of success and without incurring a ton of social kickback.
- atirip 14y agoYes, honestly really. I use FB to keep in touch with my real friends I don't see very often, or at all. Most of my friends are not geeks and they will never-ever join twitter or g+. Also I do not share much and I do not press Like buttons. Ever. Apps are disabled, explicitly. I do not seek popularity. My Friend Policy is - I must have meet you outside work and voluntarily talked with you about something not realated to work. Maybe I'm the last dinosaur.
- k3n 14y agoThe +1 is a feature? I haven't seen any real value demonstrated from it, except as a marketing gimmick my Google. The number of reported "+1's" means absolutely nothing to me.
- KirinDave 14y agoMy friends +1 things and they get elevated on my search results. Since my friends tend to like things I too would be interested in (and they're also people I trust), this weighting is awesome and helps me all over the place.