Google+ Surpasses 50 Million Users in 88 Days

Google+ Hits the 50 Million Users Mark in Record Time, Google Plus,
After Facebook garnered more than 1 trillion pageviews per month, now it’s Google+ to mark 50 million users in 88 days – Google+ record fastest growing social media network ever. On September 20th, company announced its first API and made it openly available for all internet users to sign-up.

In a new Google+ post from Paul Allen, who has been tracking the user growth rate of the service with his own mathematical formula, he claims that Google+ likely broke the 50 million user mark on Sunday. He states, " ... since being opened to the general public (over age 18) last week, Google+ has been growing by at least 4 (percent) per day, meaning that around 2 million new users have been signing up each day."

Time to reach 50 million users

Google+ Facebook Twitter Myspace LinkedIn
88 Days 1325 Days 1096 Days 1046 Days 2354 Days

I really love Gplus. The only reason I don't spend too much time on it is because most of my friends are still on Facebook.
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Social Networking Sites World’s Most Banned Webpages

The World's Most Blocked Websites for 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, Social Networking Sites World’s Most Banned Web
Qouted from labnol.org “OpenDNS, one of the most popular DNS services on the Internet, is frequently used by parents and organizations to block websites that they think are inappropriate for children or may hamper productivity at the workplace.”

A website/site is a depository of information destined for public or private use, usually residing in a remote server. When a computer terminal calls the website (using the HTTP or HTTPS protocol) the server responds by sending the information requested back to the user.

The list includes social networking sites (Facebook.com, MySpace.com, Twitter.com) and adult websites (Redtube.com, Pornhub.com and Playboy.com) as usual but the presence of two major advertising networks on that list suggests people do have their share of privacy concerns.
Facebook.com, MySpace.com, Twitter.com, Redtube.com, Pornhub.com and Playboy.com
Here’s the full list of constantly blacklisted sites from OpenDNS. Percentages indicate the proportion of OpenDNS networks using blacklisting that reference a given site.

1. Facebook.com —14.2%
2. MySpace.com — 9.9%
3. YouTube.com — 8.1%
4. Doubleclick.net — 6.4%
5. Twitter.com — 2.3%
6. Ad.yieldmanager.com — 1.9%
7. Redtube.com —1.4%
8. Limewire.com — 1.3%
9. Pornhub.com —1.2%
10. Playboy.com — 1.2%
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