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    Quote Originally Posted by Kirk Gittings View Post
    From workshops I have attended about using social media for marketing, the experts expect Google+ will become very important to businesses because of the impact it will have on your Google rankings.
    This is an interesting question. It is true that Google+ pages (more accurately, Google Profiles) get indexed immediately. My sense, with about ten days of experience with the Google+ site that I have been working on, is that it is helping search results on Google. I need to check whether the same is happening on Bing and Yahoo. This may not be the result of blatant favouratism from Google. I am inclined to think that Google, from a competition/anti-trust perspective, has to be careful about favouring its own products in search results.
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    I've signed up as well and had a few users add it on my page, but I don't think it will be any immediate impact. I know they are just trying to do everything they can to erode Facebooks user base. Long term don't think it will last.
    I think that it is more accurate to say that Google wants to take over Facebook's user base. Nothing wrong with that. Competition in social media is good. I don't know whether Google+ will succeed, but I do know that if one wants to be in the social media game, one needs to have a public/business Facebook page, and that it is pretty much a no-brainer to copy the same content to Google+.

    Have a look at who in the tech world is using Google+. They have an awful lot of CEOs using the platform, including, not surprisingly, all the heavy players aligned to Android.

    For some interesting data on Google+, including info on who is using it, have a look at http://findpeopleonplus.com.
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    Quote Originally Posted by r.e. View Post
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    For some interesting data on Google+, including info on who is using it, have a look at http://findpeopleonplus.com.
    That page sequences the list of people by the number of followers they have. Mark Zuckerberg is #1. My man William Shatner is page 2 of the list.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike Anderson View Post
    That page sequences the list of people by the number of followers they have. Mark Zuckerberg is #1. My man William Shatner is page 2 of the list.

    ...Mike
    Drill down a bit and you will find lots of data. But yes, Messrs. Zuckerberg and Shatner figure prominently Isn't it interesting that Mark Zuckerberg has the largest number of followers on Google+.

    The data generally show significant participation by younger males involved in tech. Perhaps not surprising given that it is not yet "public", although it seems pretty clear to me that Google is essentially marketing Google+ via what amounts to a chain letter. If being "in" means that one can make 150 invites, that adds up fast. Plus, they have had open periods for people to register. The net result is that the current number for a "non-public" resource is apparently around 25 million members.
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    Quote Originally Posted by r.e. View Post
    Drill down a bit and you will find lots of data...
    Here's the current breakdown by occupation:

    Student (272,493)
    Engineer (55,554)
    Software Engineer (53,761)
    Manager (24,525)
    Photographer (23,670)
    Software Developer (23,021)
    Web Developer (20,488)
    Designer (19,878)
    Marketing (19,558)
    Graphic Designer (19,108)
    23,670 photographers. Really?!?!?

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    How many "unemployed"?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike Anderson View Post
    That page sequences the list of people by the number of followers they have. Mark Zuckerberg is #1. My man William Shatner is page 2 of the list.

    ...Mike
    Number 15 is a photographer: https://plus.google.com/105237212888595777019/posts
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    Quote Originally Posted by r.e. View Post
    means that one can make 150 invites
    Invite is a verb. You can't make or send an invite. Google+ needs to change its wording to invitation.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve Smith View Post
    Invite is a verb. You can't make or send an invite. Google+ needs to change its wording to invitation.


    Steve.
    Have a look at the Oxford English Dictionary. You are in for a surprise. Invite, as a noun, has been in colloquial use for over 400 years. W.H. Auden, no less, used it as a noun in one of his best known works: "O for doors to be open and an invite with gilded edges". It's informal, to be sure, but it isn't wrong, at least as far as the OED is concerned.

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    Quote Originally Posted by r.e. View Post
    Have a look at the Oxford English Dictionary. You are in for a surprise. Invite, as a noun
    I won't accept it as such - it just sounds wrong!

    I spend a lot of time in Cowes. What part of the island are you from?
    Ryde - just round the corner from Cowes!


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