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Google+ Sets Record for 25 Million User Mark

  • First Posted: Aug 04 2011 07:53 AM
  • Updated: about 1 hour ago

Growth at this rate would see it crack 100 million before the year is out.

Google+ has garnered 25 million users faster than any other website in the history of the internet, and continues to grow at a pace of around one million users per day. The ComScore report notes that while it took Google's social network just more than a month to hit the 25 million mark, it took Twitter 30 months and Facebook three years to get there (although, within another three years, Facebook hit something like 600 million, so ... ). True to the trend of late, Canada also appears to be one of the heaviest per capita users of Google+, with a million or so Canadians already having profiles, around the same as the U.K., despite the fact that the U.K. has a population about twice the size of ours. Six million users came from the U.S., and 3.6 million dropped by from India. So, lots of people have Google+ accounts, but if our experience with it counts for anything it really seems like everyone on it is just lurking around, and waiting for some permission to begin posting stuff. Consider this it.

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