Google+ goes 25m+ users in record time

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Wednesday, 03 August 2011 12:55

Your IT - Home IT

Digital measurement company 'comScore' has scored Google+ as having 25m+ users, getting to that rather nice number super quickly.

Although comScore's website doesn't list the details in its press release section, Reuters has reported that comScore has scored Google+ well.

Scoring 25m+ users since its launch at the end of June, the company has added 'roughly one million visitors a day', something quite impressive given the limited, beta nature of the Google+ launch.

It helps that Google's idea of a beta is different to that of its competitors, with Google happy to launch product and tweak it on the fly as quickly as possible.

With Google+ having thus far avoided the negative feedback suffered from previous social networking efforts such as Google Buzz, Google has managed to capture a lot of the buzz it generated when first launching Gmail all those years ago, with 'invitations' this time around even selling on eBay, although relatively freely available online from those offering a Google+ invite.

That's how I got onto Google+, with Google still not having responded to my invite request through its Google+ page by the time I decided to stop waiting and start asking someone for a free invite.

Reuters notes in its piece some salient comScore stats, whereby Facebook took 'about three years' to reach 25m visitors, and Twitter taking 'just over 30 months' to do the same.

However, Reuters also notes that the current success does not guarantee Google+'s long term success, with MySpace the in-your-face example of how one can go from hot, to not, in a relatively short period of time.

Still, with 25m+ on the books in such a short time, Google+ has some sorely needed momentum in the fight against its socially networked brethren, with all eyes now on how quickly Google can reach the 50m+ user figure, and then 100m+ after that.