Last week, I noticed that Mark Zuckerberg scored an early invite to affix Google and — however that he doesn’t essentially look happy regarding it. He encompasses a rather somber profile photo. The post picked up steam and launched several alternative news stories, in nice half as a result of it fed into the narrative of Google and being a possible “Facebook killer.”
Zuckerberg himself was nonchalant, telling Robert Scoble via text, “Why are folks therefore shocked that I’d have a Google account?” actually, there’s very little reason to not use a competitor’s product (even if there's some precedent within the Google v. Facebook history book) — knowing how a competitor’s product works and what its best options are offers up competitive benefits.
Regardless, Zuck should actually have issues regarding losing Facebook users to Google’s new social networking tool. There are some huge pluses to Google +, as well as the chance to, in Ezra Klein’s words, “build your social network with years of Facebook expertise in mind.” That’s why I’m not shocked to examine Facebook profile photos just like the one at right pop up round the website. When Google and exits the “invitation only” stage, several a lot of users are signing up for accounts. It doesn’t essentially mean they’ll shut their Facebook accounts, however it should mean they pay less time there.
As much as that will be eating at Zuckerberg, there’s a trifle of reports these days to assuage his ego (if it’s hurting). because of all the news stories regarding his Google and profile, he’s currently the foremost followed user on the positioning, in keeping with Google+ Statistics. As of the writing of this post, 29,543 folks had added Zuck to their circles. Runners-up within the “most followed category” are Google executives Larry Page, Vic Gundotra and Sergey Brin, none of whom have nevertheless topped 20K.
Google statistics conjointly proves Quentin Hardy’s suspicion that and could be a sausage-fest. solely 100% of the site’s users are feminine, whereas half a mile are male, and a pair of are “other.” on condition that initial invitations were distributed primarily to those in tech circles, the gender disparity isn’t vastly stunning.
That two hundredth of the tech circle identifies as “other” could be a lil’ stunning.
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