Google - Ghost Town?

+ Shares umpf Search Images Mail Documents Calendar Sites Groups Contacts More - Ghost Towm? Google+ officially claims 170m users Home Commentators say it's a ghost town. Who's right? Profile Official stats from each channel: Explore facebook. 901,000,000 Users* Events Photos Google+ 170,000,000 Users Circles Linked in 161,000,000 Users Local Games twittery 140,000,000 Users Hangouts More We've analysed the total number of social shares from 100 online news stories across four networks: Facebook*, Twitter, LinkedIn and G+ and averaged them according to each network's official active users. *Data Analysed before Facebook's 26 July 2012 update to 955m users The figures show, for every 100m users, the average number likely to share a story: 1ST 197.3 2ND 41.8 f 3RD 15.2 4TH 6.0 in g+ How much more active each channel is compared to G+ 2.5x 7x 33х Linked in. facebook. twittery Business Total % Shares f 45.7 19.5 in We've also broken these stats down into dif- ferent news sectors to show how each social media platform is performing. Business stories have the highest percentage of G+ shares, but even this is well behind the other platforms: 32.1 2.6 8+ Entertainment Technology f 50 2.6 in f 49.9 2.3 in 四 46.5 0.8 8* 46.4 1.4 8+ Health General f 62.7 2.9 in f 68.7 1.3 in + 33.9 0.4 8+ y 28.8 1.2 8+ umpf Research by