{"id":488,"date":"2013-06-30T18:30:15","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T17:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ianmcalvert.com\/?p=488"},"modified":"2013-06-30T18:30:15","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T17:30:15","slug":"488","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ianmcalvert.com\/index.php\/2013\/06\/30\/488\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday Google+ but………"},"content":{"rendered":"

So on Friday (Friday 28th June 2013), we saw the anniversary of it being two years since the launch of Google+<\/a> (see Wikipedia<\/a>) along with people claiming that it has over 359 million actual users – but is this the case?<\/p>\n

So, here is something interesting to throw into the mix…..<\/p>\n

How many are actual users?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I had a computer crash a few months ago and lost my bookmarks which is a real pain, as this means a link here would be great for this topic, as the link was stating that actual users is a much lesser figure even below 100 million!<\/p>\n

The link in summary, laid claim to their reason in stating this figure, being that everything “Google<\/a>” is linked. So – from memory – if you look at this:-<\/p>\n