Google’s new social networking baby, Google+, has achieved a 50 million+ mark in the user count and is adding in a number of users on a daily basis. The number addition has almost doubled since Google+ was opened to the public. This mark might even ring the ‘business’ bells for marketers, who have been eagerly waiting for Google+ to unveil its business profiles.
Google+ has an another interesting update, which is that one can now share their circles. This new feature can be found in one’s Circles menu and need to click on the circle they wish to share and then use the “share this circle” option. The next step is basic as one has to choose a list with whom they intend to share their circles.
Google still has its focus on innovating ways to connect users, rather than just increase the count. The latter is not at all a difficult task for the search engine giant. Circles has been an innovative option and innovating it further, seems to work right for Google+ as sharing circles would help the cause. Sharing circles is not restricted to any individual or other circle. It can even be shared publicly.
Google+ continues to limit privacy concerns with this innovation too, as sharing circles would reveal who is in your circle, but the name of the circle isn’t shared, nor are future updates. The main purpose of this innovation, is to help users share topic-based circles and to allow friends and other contacts to benefit from looking out for mutual friends one can contact via their friends.
One can watch a video of this new feature as below:
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Apart from the new feature, Advertising Age reported that the social network is closing on to unveil these profiles. This introduction would allow companies to create a page and circles. It would even have an inclusion of a newly announced feature, allowing one to share their Google+ circles.
Paul Allen has been updating the user count on a regular basis for Google+ and according to his count, the social networking site had hit the 50 million mark over the weekend. On noting that there might be a noteworthy margin of error in his estimates, he argued stating the fact that his statistical analysis is roughly correct. He said, “It is possible that my U.S. – non-U.S. ratio is off slightly, and it is possible that my 15% fudge factor for private profiles and for non-Roman characters could be way off.”
Noting his points, it can be said that he has worked really hard on demonstrating how his methodology works. According to his estimates, Google+ had more than 7 million users added on the social networking site in a span of three days, that is from 22nd September to 25th September.
Hitwise had its own detailing for Google+, which was unique and different as compared to the above two. He noted that traffic on Google+ saw a 1200% increase after it moved out of the ‘invite only’ mode. However, Hitwise is still to detail, whether the said analysis is for the front page only or all pages.