But! While the company didn’t break out any specific numbers on Android usage, they did confirm that Google+ has over 40 million users. “Users”, here, being loosely defined, since Google+ is a relative ghost town of privately shared links about how Google+ is a ghost town. And given how heavily Google+ was promoted in the early days — across however many millions and millions of Gmail accounts — is it wrong to be a little surprised that there aren’t even more people who signed up?
Google will be hosting a call to discuss earnings (a not-at-all-shabby $US9.72 billion revenue, $US2.73 billion net income) today, which will hopefully include some goodies on Android activations, Ice Cream Sandwich and the Motorola acquisition. Or it might just be an hour discussing the finer points of TAC. Either way, we’ll be listening in, updating as necessary. [Google]
skugga
Friday, October 14, 2011 at 9:58 AMDid Gizmodo/Gawker get bought up by Facebook recently?
This is getting ridiculous.
Box Guru
Friday, October 14, 2011 at 11:51 AMBashing Google+ is the flavour of the month.
Damo
Friday, October 14, 2011 at 9:38 PMI find it quite pertinent.
Antonia
Friday, October 14, 2011 at 10:00 AMHa, you claim + a ghost town but you’re using one of your own unsubstantiated articles as a reference – go the Facebook PR.
JonBOY
Friday, October 14, 2011 at 10:32 AMI created a + account because a couple of friends did and I got an invite. I launch the app on my iPhone from time to time and there’s zero activity.
Antonia
Friday, October 14, 2011 at 11:01 AMSo? The FB pages of the people I’m “friends” with generally have zero activity. Does that also mean that hardly anyone is using FB?
Anyhow to keep in contact with my friends I’m calling them up and going around to see them.
Dave
Friday, October 14, 2011 at 11:33 AMFollow some photographers. I get so many updates everyday..
Kyle
Friday, October 14, 2011 at 11:35 AMAre you guys serious? Last post from any of the 30+ people I have on g+ was over a month ago. Its clearly dead.
Giz is reporting reality, and if you cant accept that g+ is dead, you’re deluded (or have been bought out by Google recently? :/ )
Dave
Friday, October 14, 2011 at 12:41 PMYOUR circle on G+ may be dead. You obviously don’t know everyone on there else your comment would be different.
Antonia
Friday, October 14, 2011 at 12:45 PMHere’s a different/better take on the same “story”:
Especially the bit that reads “people are flocking into Google+ at an incredible rate.”
Antonia
Friday, October 14, 2011 at 12:46 PMDang, the URL didn’t publish. Its
h t t p : / / http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/13/google-announces-q3-earnings-9-72-billion-revenue/
Josh
Friday, October 14, 2011 at 11:58 AMDoes it not also have something like 3.4 billion photo uploads?
That’s a lotta pics.
Sam D
Friday, October 14, 2011 at 1:14 PMGoogle+ is awesome for photographers and following other photographers. Apart from that, my circles are fairly quiet.
trk
Friday, October 14, 2011 at 7:48 PMI prefer Google+, but most of my FB “friends” didnt make the transition.
I just used the ‘nearby’ and search function to find interesting people and added them to my circles. Now I converse with them more frequently than I ever did with my IRL friends on FB.
The best part is that the posts on G+ are USUALLY a little more in-depth and interesting than a random chick putting up a sad face so people will ask whats wrong, or assorted baby photos, or photos of dinner people are eating.