CEO of Social Media Network, Mark Zuckerburg seems to be making it a habit of being at the No. 1 position. Not only does his Facebook occupy the premier position in the social media, he himself has now occupied the top spot on the new social network Google+.
According to a blog posted by PC Mag on Tuesday, “Zuckerberg stands atop the list at socialstatistics.com with 29,543 followers. Page holds the No. 2 spot with 19,878, and Brin is fourth with 15,636. Vic Gundotra, senior vice president of social for Google, is No. 3. The rest of the list reads like a who’s who of tech geeks and media people, with This Week in Tech’s Leo Laporte, TechCrunch’s MG Seigler, and Mashable’s Pete Cashmore all placing in the top 25.”
The creator of the site, The Next Web’s Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, says he crawls Google+ once a day for the rankings. He manually chose the people to keep track of, but he expects to have the site actively search for new accounts soon. As for why he chose mainly tech people for his list, Zanten says that’s who’s there.
“I think the technical elite got to it first,” he told PCMag in an online chat. “So that influences the results now. Was the same with Twitter at first. The rock stars and politicians came later.”
Although there’s been some question as to whether the Zuckerberg profile on Google+ really belongs to the Facebook founder, tech blogger Robert Scoble (No. 5 on Zanten’s list) has apparently confirmed that it’s genuine. Scoble tweeted on Sunday that Zuckerberg had responded to a text, saying “Why are people so surprised that I’d have a Google account?”
To be fair, Mark Zuckerberg is pretty much synonymous with the social networking world, especially when you consider his visibility in award-winning movies and a certain TIME Person of the Year issue, though you have to admit that it is still a little weird for Google.
The PC Mag likens it to MySpace’s Tom Andersen taking to Facebook in 2004 and immediately becoming the social network’s most befriended person.
However, 29,543 friends still pales in comparison to Zuckerburg’s following on his other social network profiles (which you can check out here and here); even his puppy has 142,000 likes.
Even though Zuckerberg is on more follow lists than anyone else on Google+, he has yet to post an public update on the network. Visitors to his profile page are met with the default “There are no messages to display” notice. In his About page, he succinctly says “I make things,” and lists Palo Alto, CA, as a place he’s lived. Zuckerberg likely now has even more followers since Zanten’s site last made a tally, since his profile shows that 34,759 people have him in their Circles (Google+’s way of organizing friends) as of this morning.
Zanten is apparently crawling more than just follower data for his site. He says his statistics show a wide gender gap among the users of Google+. The current ratio of men to women on the network is 88 percent to 10 percent, he says, with 2 percent listing their gender as “other.”
Before counting followers on Google+, Zanten created the site TwitterCounter.com, which is said to track statistics of over 14 million Twitter users.