By Simon Saavedra | Christian Post Correspondent
DATE: MON July 11, 2011
With all the craze over joining social networking’s newest platform, Google+, we can’t help but ask the question, how many have joined so far?
(Photo: Reuters / Google / Handout)A screen shot of the Google Plus social network is shown in this publicity photo released to Reuters June 28, 2011. Google Inc, frustrated by a string of failed attempts to crack social networking, designed the service to tie together all of its online properties, laying the foundation for a full-fledged social network.
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According to an unofficial report by Paul Allen, also in the tech business and founder of Ancestry.com, Google “probably has more than 4.5 million users already.”
Allen took a shot at making an educated analysis on the total number of Google+ users so far by using a model he claims is the best out there, based on “surname distribution data from the U.S. Census Bureau,” he said in his latest post.
According to his research, Google+ seems to be “growing like crazy,” he said.
Using this model, he calculated 1.7 million users worldwide until July 4; about 515,000 users in the U.S. and 1.2 million in the rest of the World.
By July 10, upon seeing how many uncommon surnames were popping up with Google+ accounts and noticing how many people enlisted in Google+ with the same surname, he concluded about 4.5 million users had joined so far.
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Allen plans to publish on Monday how many Google+ users he believes there are so far.
Here are his latest posts: https://plus.google.com/117388252776312694644/posts
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