Tag archive: Ancestry.com

Facebook is undeniably the 800-pound gorilla of the social networking world, but at least one watcher thinks Google+ is going to give it a run for its money—and offers some numbers to back up the claim. Ancestry.com founder Paul Allen, a self-appointed “unofficial statistician” for Google+, claims the rise of Android and Google's integration of Google+ into its other offerings is going to fuel user adoption of the… Read More

According to unofficial tracking conducted by Google+ watcher and Ancestry.com founder Paul Allen, the upstart social network is rapidly gaining new users and recently passed 62 million users as of December 25. He also estimates that approximately 625,000 people are signing up for Google+ each day and the network will likely break through 100 million users by late February 2012. Assuming that the current rate of growth continues over the next… Read More

According to a recent blog post from 1000Memories, the company estimates that Facebook currently houses over 140 billion photos uploaded by users, a figure that's 10,000 times larger than all the photos housed by the Library of Congress. Based off a figure from a Facebook engineer earlier this year, the social network oversees more than 200 million photos uploaded per day, approximately 6 billion per month. Techcrunch also reported that… Read More

By the estimation of Ancestry.com co-founder Paul Allen, the Google+ network is looking at a total of 18 million users of the invitation-only social network by the end of Tuesday. Yesterday, the service added 763,000 new users which constituted the slowest day of growth since Google opened up the floodgates on July 6. The growth rate has dropped 50 percent from the peak of public interest, but Allen notes that Google hasn't attempted to… Read More

Google+ may still be in invite-only testing mode. But that hasn't stopped the new social network from amassing an estimated 10 million users in the two weeks since the site went live. That number comes via Ancestry.com founder Paul Allen, who estimates that Plus “could reach 20 million users by this coming weekend,” if Google continues to allow new people to join. According to Allen, “the number of Google+ users… Read More