In case you’ve missed our report last weekend about the total count of beta users of Google+, you may be surprised to know that after a span of seven days, statistics show the new social-networking site may already be raking five million users. Make that double today as Ancestry.com founder Paul Allen reveals it has already reached 10 million users. And if this buzz continues until this coming weekend, Google+ is about to reach the 20 million users!
Indeed, you can say it’s the fastest growth ever happened on the history of social-networking.
So how did Allen do it? Well, he start first by getting all the popular surnames on US then compare it with the number of Google+ with the corresponding surname. He’ll then divide these to the US & non-US users group. He’ll use this as a metric to accurately calculate the total US population currently using Google+, then formulate strict estimates for worldwide users. In the end, he came up with a calculation that with every 1 US user there’s 2.12 non-US user for G+. Likewise, the metrics is about to changed since the buzz for G+ is going peak not plateaus.
Naturally, Allen doesn’t claim perfection of this type of metrics. Just try to think about all those users who have used dubious names or company brands. However, since no other analytics are released publicly to differentiate with Allen’s work, his gauge is our best shot for today.
So far, If Google keeps on making the invite button available until weekends, the prediction of 20 million plus users until next week is very plausible. Question is, will this growth hit its peak soon?
In our previous report, we revealed several ways on how G+ can compete with Facebook. Then again, one wrong move and this breath-taking service might end up like Google Wave. As of now, it’s still to early to predict what will happen to Google+ for all we know it’s still in beta!
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