Thursday, July 21, 2011

Google Plus users update: 18 million users, 33% female [Report]


Google Plus now quickly becoming a parlor full of women.


Good news Google fans, (and boys inside Google Plus). Search engine giant’s Plus subdomain now catering more female internet users.
Google Plus residents reaches 18 million, according to latest stat presented by Paul Allen, the “unofficial Google Plus statistician” and founder of Ancestry.com. Allen is claiming that the population of Google Plus is now about 2.3% of the total population of Facebook — so yeah, it’s like China versus Singapore, but the growth of Google Plus is undeniably impressive, knowing that even LinkedIn founder isn’t happy to welcome a new competitor that could kill his business.
Google Plus will most likely get more members by the end of this week, knowing that the official iPhone app is now available. And how can Google use iPhone to grow? Well, current members of Google Plus could try their very best to convince family and friends to join Google Plus too, and just by sending an invite via e-mail, multiplication will occur.
One of the biggest features of the Google Plus for iPhone (and Android) that could attract more members is the Huddle or instant messaging service embedded inside the native app. Apparently, Google Plus members can IM each other cross-platform using Android or iPhone to communicate — this could also replace the old-school text messaging service, and even RIM’s popular BBM.
Anyway, Paul Allen of Ancestry.com is also predicting that Google Plus population were most likely male dominating, but women quickly catching up, contrary to previous reports posted by “flawed” (as Allen called it) Social Statistics data. Allen told his Google Plus followers that as of June 15th, Google Plus users consist of 66.4% Male and 33.6% Female. It should be noted that Allen is the first public figure to predict the first two weeks population of Google Plus (which is 10M), that Google CEO Larry Page has confirmed during his last quarterly earnings call.

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