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Google+ has a significantly larger audience than Instagram. G+ is more than photos though and has a different audience.

by jonknee 14y ago

untog 14y ago
How do you figure that G+ has a larger audience? Larger potential audience, sure, given the number of Google users out there. But Instagram posts have engagement (likes and comments) on a level I've never seen on Google+.
- jonknee 14y ago
  G+ has more active users than Instagram based on the released data. They purposefully don't release too much information, but the figures that have been announced show G+ to be far larger than Instagram. Instagram claims more than 100M signups, Google claims more than 500M. I don't see MAU for Instagram, but Google+'s MAU is 135M which is more than all of Instagram's signups. Like any social network, what you see is dependent on who you are and how you use the service. Instagram is much more wide open than G+ as well, people are much more likely to share content to only a few people on G+ and thus you'll never see that content (or any replies). From what I've heard from photographers, G+ is definitely an active place to share photos.
  - lotso 14y ago
    What makes a user "active" on G+ exactly?
- mtgx 14y ago
  I've seen hundreds of comments on DSLR-made photos from photographers on Google+. Photographers love Google+, and the engagement is very higher.
  - untog 14y ago
    DSLR-touting photographers are a minority audience compared to Instagram's audience though, surely.
mnicole 14y ago
That would have possibly been true before the Facebook acquisition, but once the sale went through, I got about 20-30 new requests from people that were on FB but not Instagram, and I'm not even remotely popular. I can't say the FB to G+ conversion I saw (amongst non-techies) was as strong. You're also not accounting for the fact that Instagram is a mobile app with a single focus. I don't want to go into my G+ app and filter by photos and hope to get the same quickly-see-what-my-friends-are-up-to experience I can with Instagram, just like I wouldn't post those kinds of photos to G+ to begin with. It's a very informal platform and I don't think G+ comes close to replicating that experience.

Google+ has a significantly larger audience than Instagram. G+ is more than photos though and has a different audience.

by jonknee 14y ago

Google+ has a significantly larger audience than Instagram. G+ is more than photos though and has a different audience.

untog 14y ago

How do you figure that G+ has a larger audience? Larger potential audience, sure, given the number of Google users out there. But Instagram posts have engagement (likes and comments) on a level I've never seen on Google+.

jonknee 14y ago
G+ has more active users than Instagram based on the released data. They purposefully don't release too much information, but the figures that have been announced show G+ to be far larger than Instagram. Instagram claims more than 100M signups, Google claims more than 500M. I don't see MAU for Instagram, but Google+'s MAU is 135M which is more than all of Instagram's signups. Like any social network, what you see is dependent on who you are and how you use the service. Instagram is much more wide open than G+ as well, people are much more likely to share content to only a few people on G+ and thus you'll never see that content (or any replies). From what I've heard from photographers, G+ is definitely an active place to share photos.
- lotso 14y ago
  What makes a user "active" on G+ exactly?
mtgx 14y ago
I've seen hundreds of comments on DSLR-made photos from photographers on Google+. Photographers love Google+, and the engagement is very higher.
- untog 14y ago
  DSLR-touting photographers are a minority audience compared to Instagram's audience though, surely.

mnicole 14y ago

That would have possibly been true before the Facebook acquisition, but once the sale went through, I got about 20-30 new requests from people that were on FB but not Instagram, and I'm not even remotely popular. I can't say the FB to G+ conversion I saw (amongst non-techies) was as strong. You're also not accounting for the fact that Instagram is a mobile app with a single focus. I don't want to go into my G+ app and filter by photos and hope to get the same quickly-see-what-my-friends-are-up-to experience I can with Instagram, just like I wouldn't post those kinds of photos to G+ to begin with. It's a very informal platform and I don't think G+ comes close to replicating that experience.