Google+ Now Up to 62 Million Users

[cpvr]

Looks like Google+ is steady growing at a rapid pace since it opened.

Check this out by Mashable: Google+ now up to 62 million users and Adding 625,000 a Day

Here's what Mashable said: http://mashable.com/2011/12/27/google-plus-62m-users/

Allen, the founder of Ancestry.com, takes an unusual approach to come by his estimates: He and his staff run hundreds of queries on surnames they’ve been tracking since July and then extrapolate the size of the network.
At this rate, Allen writes, G+ will reach 100 million users by Feb. 25, 2012 and 200 million by Aug. 3. By this time next year, G+ will have close to 300 million users.
Allen, however, doesn’t address how many of those 62 million are active users. Experian Hitwise, however, found that those users are on the rise as well, though they represent a fraction of G+’s base. Hitwise found that total visits to G+ hit 9.4 million for the week ending Dec. 17, the most recent full week it tracked. That was a nice jump over the 7.2 million visits G+ experienced in the comparable week in November, but below the 15 million visits to G+ for the week ending Sept. 24, when Google opened the previously invitation-only site to the public.
Google’s last official acknowledgement of G+’s membership came during a conference call with analysts, when CEO Larry Page pegged the figure at 40 million.

What do you guys think? Do you see Google+ making a huge impact in the social web next year? Or do you think its too early to tell?

 

[Creaky]

How many of those still use it though, visit there very rarely since joining.

 

[Brandon]

How many of those still use it though, visit there very rarely since joining.

I sure don't...
I set an account up and added a few friends, that's about it.
I get request that I'll check out from time to time but nothing more. I wouldn't even notice those if it weren't for my iGoogle home page that has the alert in the top left corner of the page..lol

 

[Marc]

Heck, I haven't signed up yet, lol.
I can communicate with everyone that I know Via Skype,

 

[cpvr]

Heck, I haven't signed up yet, lol.
I can communicate with everyone that I know Via Skype,

Ya, see, I communicate via Facebook instead of Skype. I've never been a fan of Skype.

 

[David]

This isn't anything worth discussing over. Facebook had to work off MySpace which wasn't terribly active then. Facebook had to do their own marketing and develop their 800 million userbase. Google, on the other hand, has already a large userbase and is working off Facebook (ie. FB users also using G+).

 

[cpvr]

This isn't anything worth discussing over. Facebook had to work off MySpace which wasn't terribly active then. Facebook had to do their own marketing and develop their 800 million userbase. Google, on the other hand, has already a large userbase and is working off Facebook (ie. FB users also using G+).

Well, ya, of course they're fighting for Facebook users. But you can also say the same thing about them trying to get Twitter users as well. Google & facebook will be competing for years to come, who knows who will win because both companies have money up the **** and can advertise all they want. The key is, who has the better features and such, so right now, I don't see Facebook losing their 800 million user base because that's a **** ton of users on the site already. Myspace sucked and was slow, so it wasn't like people wouldn't leave the site. Facebook blew myspace off the map because of all the features FB had over Myspace, and the speed of the site. Myspace had a lot of sites supporting them - like the graphics sites and codes, but that was it, Myspace didn't have much of a push after FB boomed. Can you blame them though? What could of Myspace changed during their days when they were still #1 and Facebook just launched?

 

[David]

My point was that if Google+ didn't have a rapid growth, then something was clearly wrong. Now, Google+ does have a rapid growth, but this is to be expected, it's normal and nothing surprising.

 

[zombo]

I'd love to know how many of those users are actually active though. I'd say not many

 

[cpvr]

I'd love to know how many of those users are actually active though. I'd say not many

I'd have to agree with you on that one. I know I get a few invites for people that want me to add them to my circles, but I'm not going to add anyone that I don't know.
Apparently it now has 90 million users according to Mashable with that many users, you'd think they'd be a lot more content being pushed out on the social networking site.

 

[SolidShellSecur]

Never really used it. Made an account, played with it, but that was about it.

 

[Dan Hutter]

Ars had an interesting take on the numbers: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news...embership-with-brute-force-signup-process.ars

 

[cpvr]

Ars had an interesting take on the numbers: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news...embership-with-brute-force-signup-process.ars

****, I didn't think of it like that until I see that article. That's crazy though. Google needs to come out with engagement numbers and such - or the stats are useless compared to Twitter or facebook!

 

[cpvr]

More information has been released in regards to Google plus' numbers @Brandon @Dan Hutter
http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/0...gistered-users-now-100m-monthly-active-users/

This week we also hit an important milestone–over 400,000,000 people have upgraded to Google+. It was only a year ago that we opened public sign-up, and we couldn’t have imagined that so many people would join in just 12 months. While Google+ is all about creating a better experience across Google, it’s also a destination. And here too, I’m happy to report that we have just crossed 100,000,000 monthly active users on Google+ (plus.google.com and mobile app).

Is it really growing that fast? Should Facebook be worried?:ROFL:

 

[Brandon]

and 100 million monthly active users.

I wonder what they consider an "active user", I get alerts while checking my gmail and click to the google+ page but I wouldn't say I'm an active user.

Yet the real story here isn’t the 400 million number, but the 100 million one. Google+’s main competitor Facebook doesn’t even bother talking about registered users because it know the number is meaningless. The social networking giant only talks about monthly active users, of which it has 955 million as of June 30. Both Facebook and Google are talking about combined desktop and mobile users.

 

[Dan Hutter]

^Same here Brandon. I get their stupid "XXX has updates for you" emails which is usually just one or two guys who are spamming their wares.

At least Google helps them Spam, I guess. :D

 

[DaUnknownAdm!n]

I have a few "circles" setup but no interaction whatsoever. I call google+ a "wave" like fail.