How many people are actually in Google+

In 2015, wrote only 0, 3% of profiles
Edward Morbius spent little research activity Google+ profile and concluded that few people leave comments on this website social networks. According to his estimates, only about 4.6 million users that ever written since the beginning of the year. Not really Apprehensive, some publications cited its findings, stating that the site does not use one at all. < br />
The total number of users has been defined file sitemap, it is about 2, 2 billion profiles. Only about 9, 2% showed at least some activity on the site, which is about 200 million people has ever left the recording of any kind. About 37% are among recent activity comments on YouTube. The fact is that after the unification of certain functions comment at any roller falls on Google+. More from 8.1% last record comes change photos - when loading new avatars in the film appears on this.




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Interestingly, among the active members that once something is written, 31% have not placed absolutely no records since 2013. In the first 18 days of 2015, only 6% of the active profiles wrote at least some text record. And only half of the cases it was not a comment on YouTube. As can be seen, the merging of some functions with the video hosting Google+ helped inflate activity - probably why Google went to such a move.

In other words, according to this rough estimate, only 0, 2-0, 3% of all user profiles placed in the first 18 days of 2015 though any text entry, which is not a comment on YouTube. It is about 4, 4 million people. In the calculations do not take into account and can not be taken into account users who do not write, and only read other people's entries. Also drop out of sight accounts fasting private records.

The data were obtained by the automatic collection of information from the site. Cantilever scripts were run several samples of different sizes: 214, 623, 1195, 6569. The share profiles with any kind of activity, including a change userpic and comments on YouTube, has always been about the same - about 9%. The total size of Google+ - more than 2 billion accounts - confirmed by other researchers.

Google itself does not like to talk about numbers, in this можно ensure from the recent October interview with Dave Besbrisom. In it the new head Google+ refused to answer the question about the number of current users. Whether you're in Google+?
Yes No Hard to say < / Voted 770 people. 43 people abstained. Only registered users can vote in polls. Sign , please.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/244642/