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The Top 100 most popular Google+ users

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What always surprises me about lists like this is that there are people who follow thousands of others and they still get taken seriously.

Why is that surprising? What's wrong about following thousands of people?

Following people implies at least a very basic interest in what they have to say. You can't follow more than a few hundred people and still keep track of what they're saying (and that's with a low average post count). If you're following thousands you're either a bot or just racking up numbers in which case the follow relationship is totally meaningless.

I would have agreed with you once but now I think that, to a certain extent, maintaining social connections can be a bit like physical fitness. I could say you can't run under a 4 minute mile or a single race of > 100 miles, yet people have and do while almost none of us on HN ever will.

My change of heart has come after 5 years of using Twitter. I could only follow 100 people well at first but somehow it crept up and up. I've had quite a few culls and now I'm at 1000 people I follow and whenever I go through the list I recognize almost every name. It's not quite a 4 minute mile but I've been able to get at least a feel for those 1000 folks and know they're ones I appreciate following.

On Google+, you can quite reasonably follow thousands of others and still keep track of everything your friends and family post, plus the occasional random.

I still find it ironic that Mark Zuckerberg is on G+

it's more ironic that he's the top user

Everyone wants to see if he says anything about Google+, but so far he didn't post anything in public.

Would it be considered bad taste to ask him for an invite?

He also invested in Diaspora, I think he wants to avoid the mistakes a lot of companies make when they are in the lead, and just sit on his laurels.

He made a small donation to Diaspora, he didn't "invest" in it.

He's also on Twitter

I don't. I always check out competitors work.

I thought/think this is a face account. Is there any evidence that this is real?

Robert Scoble texted Zuck to verify, which he did.

Source: https://twitter.com/#!/Scobleizer/status/87321128783192064 (note: he meant "Google account" specifically in reference to "Google Plus account", verified elsewhere).

Ha, I'm #60 on the list. I've said two things so far.

Will be very surprised if Bill Gates is on G+ although he's on Twitter. One thing for sure, Steve Jobs will never be there.

Is he on any social networks?

For all the imagined rivalry between Jobs and Google, doesn't the iPhone still use Google Maps?

He had a personal Facebook account but quit after being unable to keep up with all the friend requests. Now he has a Facebook fan page.

I think this perfectly illustrates the trade off of leveraging existing connections. I'm sure this list would be similar for any other "social network" that doesn't launch from scratch and build their user base exclusively by word of mouth.

Interesting... Mark Z. has more followers than Larry and Sergey.

That's about the "surprise"-buzz of seeing him registered

Also, Larry and Sergey don't have a movie about them.

It's because it's ironic and finding him on Google+ made his profile go viral, and blogs posting about it.

Interesting that the only non-Anglophones seem to Chinese, and that many of those names appear to be pseudonyms.

That's it. Twist the knife a little more for us suckers who don't have Google+ invites.

Here, let me twist it a little more.

I got sent an invite today. Curious, I followed the link to see what it was like. It told me I wasn't allowed in because my browser was unsupported although of course Firefox was supported. My browser is Debian unstable's Iceweasel. So I gave up and did something else.

Send me your address to my email (in my profile) and I'll send you an invite.

Only one of the top 50 who can't/don't capitalize their name: Michael Arrington.

Do these appear to be Google buzz stats to anyone else? Why did it redirect to zuck's buzz?

What's with all the 0-friend Google employees?

Haven't played with settings that much yet but it could easily be they're "hiding" people in their circles.

That is correct. Apparently that feature was made for them since few others on that list do the same.

Why would you do a social network with a focus on privacy and not use those settings? ;)

I don't think this has been done for them.

I think we'll need to teach people how to be "Social" on internet from scratch when G+ hits the masses. Facebook has done a terrible job so far.

Being "Social" doesn't mean being "open", and it has nothing to do with privacy. The fact you know people doesn't mean you want the world (or anyone of your "Friends") to know it. I mean this has unlimited user cases (except on Facebook) but one could be about "Business" Circles.

Anyway, back to the question, indeed is a setting and even a easy one (good job, again): Network Visibility.

I want researchers to come on G+

Half the HN front page, as of this writing, is Google links.

It's been like that all week. Say what you want about g+, being that consistently on HN is remarkable.

I'm quite happy to see Felicia Day #43. She's the hot gamer/geek from The Guild webshow.

I cant find myself on the list, when was it made?

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