just thinking back to the year when everyone started using facebook , they had big user number as well , but i never got the site , didnt know why anyone would want to use it , and i had no idea how it worked or what do do once i joined ..
then one day i had a friend that would not give me their number , and i really wanted to contact them . they told me i could contact them on facebook , of course i said i dont use facebook and dont care to use it , well thats until they told me that would be the only way i could contact them ..
so i joined the facebook craze , and i was hookd , and im still a very active member til this day ..
what im trying to say is , i hear a few of yall putting down google plus even before you give it a try , the same way i didnt like facebook way before i even joined or gave it a try ...
In the past, according to PlusHeadlines, Allen has been startlingly accurate:
July 4th – 1.7 million users
July 9th – 4.5 million users
July 12 – 10 million users
September 9th – 28.7 million users
September 22nd – 43.4 million users
These numbers tie up almost exactly with confirmed reports that we’ve seen in the past, as well as our own findings from Google employees.
When you consider that Google+ is just barely 3 months old, the growth is huge. In fact, Allen posits that in the past 2 days since the public has been able to access the service without an invitation, there has been a 30% growth.
The stats leave me to question exactly what keeps drawing people in at such a rapid rate. Are people really backlashing against Facebook? A reported 800 million users seem to be just fine on the site, especially after recent changes to privacy. But maybe it’s a combination of just wanting a change, and Google’s rollout of comprehensive new features for its own network that has spurred momentum.
We’ve dropped a line to Google to get some confirmation, but given Allen’s track record it seems very likely that he’s dead on, or at least very close.
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