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There are lies, damned lies, and statistics. Here is the blog post to the "report": http://globalwebindex.net/thinking/social-platforms-gwi-8-update-decline-of

by jyap 14y ago

There are lies, damned lies, and statistics. Here is the blog post to the "report": http://globalwebindex.net/thinking/social-platforms-gwi-8-update-decline-of-local-social-media-platforms/ http://globalwebindex.net/thinking/social-platforms-gwi-8-up... According to the article: “Active Usage” (defined as “Used or contributed to in the past month”). Now according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail): As of June 2012, it (Gmail) is the most widely used web-based email provider with over 425 million active users worldwide. Do you really believe that 80% of Gmail users are "active" Google+ users?

mctx 14y ago
I'd love to see some statistics relating to time spent on the site, or number of page views. I suspect that G+ would be orders of magnitudes lower than Facebook
- paganel 14y ago
  > I suspect that G+ would be orders of magnitudes lower than Facebook Ignoring Facebook here, this chart should give them food for thought: https://www.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en#q=instagram%2C%20google%2B%2C%20tumblr&date=1%2F2010%2037m&cmpt=q https://www.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en#q=instagram%2C%2...
  - taligent 14y ago
    Explains the recent move to trick all the YouTube users into signing up for Google+. I mean seriously why does creating a private video playlist require a public Google+ page.
    - blablabla123 14y ago
      I stopped using Youtube's customization features years ago. I don't want everybody to know what kind of music I listen to and what my interests are like. Google does not seem to get that. In fact I might stop using Youtube completely soon, except for watching linked Videos. As we all know a login is necessary to watch Videos that are not for children. In fact Google search has become weird since they more or less half-publicly track which sites I'm visiting from Google. Seriously, this has to stop.

by jyap 14y ago

mctx 14y ago

I'd love to see some statistics relating to time spent on the site, or number of page views. I suspect that G+ would be orders of magnitudes lower than Facebook

paganel 14y ago
> I suspect that G+ would be orders of magnitudes lower than Facebook Ignoring Facebook here, this chart should give them food for thought: https://www.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en#q=instagram%2C%20google%2B%2C%20tumblr&date=1%2F2010%2037m&cmpt=q https://www.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en#q=instagram%2C%2...
- taligent 14y ago
  Explains the recent move to trick all the YouTube users into signing up for Google+. I mean seriously why does creating a private video playlist require a public Google+ page.
  - blablabla123 14y ago
    I stopped using Youtube's customization features years ago. I don't want everybody to know what kind of music I listen to and what my interests are like. Google does not seem to get that. In fact I might stop using Youtube completely soon, except for watching linked Videos. As we all know a login is necessary to watch Videos that are not for children. In fact Google search has become weird since they more or less half-publicly track which sites I'm visiting from Google. Seriously, this has to stop.