Google+ Reaches 4.7 Million Users
Since its release on June 28, 2011, a new social networking service users Google+ grow very rapidly. The requirement to register in advance through the invitation of members who have registered to use this service do not discourage new users.

Paul Allen, Ancestry.com founder and CEO of FamilyLink mentions in his research results, the number of Google+ users current through the numbers about 4.7 million people. The number is several times more users than a week before the new 1.7 million. "Calculations show that while starting on Monday (July 11, 2011), Google+ users grew 2.8-fold from 1.7 million to 4.7 million," wrote Paul Allen on the Google+ network weekends ago.

Paul mentions, the data used to analyze the new quarter. He estimated the number of users greater. Paul Allen held a research based on population distribution Surname (family name) from the U.S. Census Bureau data. It was during this new method of fitting to analyze the population in the U.S.

Google itself has yet to release exact data number of Google+ users. But the former CEO of Google Eric Schmidt was revealed last week that millions of users already. Of course still far from Facebook users who have exceeded 600 million users. Sooner or later Google+ will be a competitor to Facebook.

Google+ comes with four main features.

  • Circles, this function can be used to insert the names of friends into groups and users, can share content with different formats in this circle of friends.

  • Hangouts, this feature is a conferencing service is more than two people with a video call.

  • Third is the Huddle, a service that provides groups in this network to send instant messages.

  • And the fourth is the Sparks, a feature which could relate to people in this network to people who have the same interests towards something.


Google could shut down an invitation feature that allows each user to invite his friends. Google openly admitted to being overwhelmed by the number of users is growing very rapidly beyond expectations.


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