Comments on: How did Google+ get 100M active users? Hint: they’re not reading your posts

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 06:28:20 +0000

Well, Google+ is aware about that it couldn’t get spammed, that’s why Google+ is not allowing self promotion unlike Twitter and Facebook entertain this. Google wont forget that Orkut is RIP , so they dont want to give any chance.

In the way there is so much possibility to have 100 million user since it has Hangout and circle Privacy feature.

By: bigorangeplanet

bigorangeplanet — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 17:25:02 +0000

FB and G+ are 2 completely different animals. In my view FB is very often about ‘wasting the boss’ time talking to folks you haven’t seen in 15 years, whereas G+ is more about bringing together folks who will probably never meet each other, but share interests

By: vince pahkala

vince pahkala — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 19:05:09 +0000

the actual active users on googles plus are very carefully indexed on the circlecount website where you can get all the stats you want- their splash page shows 20419000 users accounted for that are currently active i confirmed this by adding 50 non active users to my google plus circles profile then ran the update feature located on circlecount on my profile and voila! no change! then i went back deleted the users and added 50 active ones and BAM! my following circlecount rose by 50-im not sure what the criteria is for the alogorithym that circlecount is using but i can see that this maybe a real world wide web actual accounting method of who is actually using google plus and who is not-so the 400 million users announcement as of todays post that i read is true but the actual active users versus the ones that just create a profile are 2 totally different virtual markers…

By: mmk

mmk — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 12:44:22 +0000

facebook have any qualified rights to comment on google plus,facebook is like an small school application,is facebook have a guts to provide all the things which will be provided by google plus?.

By: Josh Miller

Josh Miller — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:57:18 +0000

One thing that always bugged me about Facebook were their “active users stats” which may or may not count anytime you pass over a like button elsewhere on a site that isn’t Facebook.

So for this reason I made a point of deleting ky Google+ account from my Gopgle account so I can ensure I am never a falsely cpunted “user”. I love Google and their services but I find Google+ to be a pointless irritation at best. The slow creep of G+ into everything else Google does is slowly killing these services (sometimes literally) and more and more I feel the desire to just abandon ship.

By: The Tenant Advisor

The Tenant Advisor — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 20:07:54 +0000

There are at lease 10 million users arguing about cell phones on G+ hourly

By: Janko Roettgers

Janko Roettgers — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:46:54 +0000

Hangouts are hosted on plus.google.com….

By: Darnell Clayton

Darnell Clayton — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:40:56 +0000

Not following your argument here. If 100 million use Google+ via mobile (which probably means web apps, iOS & Android apps) as well as the main site directly, how does that equate to people not reading your posts?

Also using Google Talk as “evidence” for inflated use is weak as you don’t even attempt to dig up usage numbers from Google regarding Google Talk to see if Google Talk is the reason Google+ is so “active.”

Vic seemed fairly clear when stating where the 100 million is coming from (and that is out of 400 million accounts which means Google+ is only being used actively by 25% of their total plus population).

From my own personal observations of friends who have a Google+ account (but do not post anything upon it), they use Google+ directly mainly for Hangouts) as its cheaper than Skype group chats and they can do it from their smartphone with multiple people.

While Google+ activity is no where near Facebook’s billion, it’s not a ghost town either–and to subtly accuse Google+ of inflating their numbers without strong evidence is great for page views but damages GigaOm’s image.

By: Morten Myrstad

Morten Myrstad — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:30:08 +0000

You could have been right. But Vic Gundotra commented in the stream that the 100 million monthly active users did NOT include Google+-related activity outside of the site itself. This is what he posted:
“The numbers at I/O were google+ users all across Google. So gmail users who used circles, or Android users who plus oned an app etc were included. Today’s number of 100m is just on our plus.google.com destination site and the mobile app.” So I would think that those 100m DID read your post!:), to use your words.

By: A S

A S — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:07:26 +0000

> we might one day all be using Google+ — but still think that no one is using it.

Google would be quite fine with that. It is a deliberate strategy by Google to make G+ part of people’s normal interaction with Google, instead of being a separate site where people have to go to do something different.