A true record for the debut of Google+: approximately 10 million registrations have been reported. The hunt for Google+ invites was evident from the first hours of launch, but such a swift success represents a winning bet.
10 million registrations for Google+ in just a few days since its official launch: this is the summary of an estimate made by Paul Allen of Ancestry.com, a genealogy portal.
The detection system used to reach this conclusion is quite subjective: Allen started searching for all subscribers in America with a specific surname. At this point, he created a ratio between the number of American citizens and the number of subscribers with that surname. From this average, he derived his deductions, according to which the 10 million subscribers would even be an underestimate.
If the trend were confirmed and proved to be increasing, next week Google+ registrations could even reach 20 million.
One might object that Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn have many more subscribers and therefore this data should not be cause for celebration.
However, if one considers that Google+ is still in its beta phase, these estimates should already be much more “weighty” and valuable.
For its part, Google neither confirms nor denies these numbers: no official communication has been issued, not only regarding the registration pace but not even on other fronts always connected to the new social network.
Perhaps Google is finally seeing the fruits of previous unsuccessful social attempts: the flops of Wave and Buzz are finding redemption in Google+, if the registration rate were indeed confirmed.
It remains, however, a much more practical question: agreed on the rush for invites and access to Google+, but how many will actually use this new tool, like Facebook or Twitter?
Beyond mere personal presence, will the sharing mechanisms, circles, and communications via Google actually take hold and integrate into daily life, like the ever-present Facebook?
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