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Facebook's Zuckerberg most popular on Google+
by Jamie Anderson - July 5, 2011 - comments
Zuckerberg has more than 21,000 followers on Google’s social networking initiative, Google+.
It may be Google+ versus Facebook. Well, that’s the intent behind Google’s latest launch. The success of this less than one-week-old social network hinges on scores of Google users.
The number of users that Google+ has on date may be nowhere close to the mind boggling subscriber base that Facebook has. However, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO is one of the Google+ users.
Zuckerberg at numero uno position
Do we say that that round 1 of the duel has gone to Google+ ? The answer to this may well change if one was to consider the fan following on Google+.
Zuckerberg is the most followed user on Google+, according to Mountain View California based Google’s own admission.
21,213 followers versus 14,798 followers is how Zuckerberg and Google’s Co-founder and CEO Larry Page compare with regard to fans on Google+.
“He has the most friends in the world, they made a movie about him, and he is more handsome than the Larry and Sergey,” opines Boris Veldhuijen van Zanten, Google+ Statistics creator.
Google’s brand new social media network has made just the start the search engine behemoth may have wanted. As soon as the virtual doors opened, Google+ was inundated with fans.
Early days, competition to heat up
So round 1 to Facebook?
Probably more time is needed to answer this and arrive at a conclusion. That’s what Matt Warman, the Consumer Technology Editor at Daily Telegraph (UK) thinks.
“It’s early days – Facebook doesn’t need to feel threatened yet, but Google+ is soon going to offer games and all the ‘time-wasting’ options that have made the world’s biggest social network so successful,” Warman was quoted as saying in Dawn.com.
“When it all comes together – when Circles, for instance, is mainstream – then Google+ has the makings of a step change in Google’s place in the web,” opined Warman.
Google’s brand new social media network has made just the start the search engine behemoth may have wanted. As soon as the virtual doors opened, Google+ was inundated with fans.
Vic Gundotra, Google's senior vice president of engineering, said, “We’ve shut down invite mechanism for the night. Insane demand. We need to do this carefully, and in a controlled way. Thank you all for your interest!”