Google+ hits 100-million users, watch out Facebook

Following the anticipation around Facebook's imminent IPO, analysts report that Google's social play, Google+, will hit the 100-million users mark on Wednesday evening.
Google+ hits 100-million users, watch out Facebook

Paul Allen, a Google+ analyst and founder of Ancestry.com, believes the social network later comer will hit "100.8-million users by the end of the day". The most recent Google+ figures have it sitting 90-million, which Larry Page announced earlier this month while presenting Google's quarterly report.

Page noted in his report that Google+ was "growing tremendously" and that the user number had "doubled" in a three month period.

This is remarkable growth for a network that is not even a year old. According to Allen, the network has been growing at a pace of "more than 750 000 new users per day since the 19th, based on analysis of users with hundreds of different surnames. If that rate holds steady, Google+ will end the year with 345-million users."

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