Google+ Growing As a Social Backbone

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Google+ Growing As a Social Backbone

Posted by Soulskill on Friday July 22, 2011 @08:17AM from the circles-of-life dept.

OverTheGeicoE writes "The Wall Street Journal reports that Google+ has added 20 million users in just 3 weeks. According to the article, no other site has recorded such high growth in such a short time period. Twitter did something similar once, but in months, not weeks. It's especially surprising considering that access to Google+ is by invitation only. Why is Google+ growing so quickly?" A recent article at O'Reilly Radar offers a possible answer to this, calling Google+ "the rapidly growing seed of a web-wide social backbone," but one that requires openness from Google to really flourish and supplant Facebook. The growth of Google+ will be helped by their acquisition of Fridge, a startup company focused on group sharing. Meanwhile, recruiters and marketers are already eyeballing the growing social network and licking their chops.

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Re:Still need another 80m users by xTantrum · 2011-07-22 08:23 · Score: 3, Funny

Who cares. It's a sausage fest on there.

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XKCD got it right by swordgeek · 2011-07-22 08:30 · Score: 3, Funny

If you go over here,, you'll find out the biggest reason it's getting popular.
Hint: It's not facebook.

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Re:How many are like me ? by ae1294 · 2011-07-22 08:36 · Score: 3, Funny

I still don't get Google+ What's the selling point ?

It's not facebook...
Re:I'll use it the same way I use other social sit by Overzeetop · 2011-07-22 08:39 · Score: 4, Funny

Bet you're just the life of every party!

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Re:Tired and Flawed Reasoning by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-22 08:59 · Score: 0, Funny

Why didn't they balloon up to 20 million in two weeks?

Because while iTunes Ping is also not Facebook, it unfortunately happens to be Apple.
Re:I'll use it the same way I use other social sit by lpp · 2011-07-22 09:20 · Score: 5, Funny

Why wouldn't he be? He shows up with his scale cardboard cutout model of himself, plants it in the middle of the room, attaches the sign stating "If you want to party with me, I will be at..." and of course he includes his home address where there is a party every night.