Additionally, Allen says the network is adding 625,000 new users every day.
Allen and his team run "hundreds of queries on various surnames" and they have been tracking Google+ since July, when Google announced that Plus had reached 10 million users. According to Allen, this is how the growth in Google+ is looking and where it is expected to go:
July 13 - 10 million
August 1 - 20.5 million
September 1 - 24.7 million
October 1 - 38 million (Larry Page announced "more than 40m users" on Oct 13th)
November 1 - 43 million
December 1 - 50 million
December 27 - 62 million
January 1 - 65.8 million (forecast)
February 1 - 85.2 million (forecast)
By those figures, it appears that a full 25 percent on all Google+ users will have joined this month, alone. If the rate of growth continues, then Google+ should finish next year with just under 300 million users. Rival Facebook is closing in on 800 million users after launching in 2004.
Written by: Andre Yoskowitz @ 27 Dec 2011 21:21
