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In two weeks.

Buzz also gained millions of users in a short period of time.

That is not the question to ask. The question is to ask about the amount of users that have been active in the last week or month. The user count doesn't really matter.

Any new technology has to start with 0 users and grow from there. You could have used the same argument - but just use Myspace and Facebook rather than Facebook and Google+. In other words, I don't think it matters.

And engagement? All I know is in early days of fb I remember vast majority of people in large lecture halls being glued to fb.

I don't see remotely that type o of engagement with g+.

Facebook was most peoples' introduction to social sites, that accounted for a lot of the simultaneous fascination. I don't see it as a strike against Google+ that it won't achieve the same encounter with novelty.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/101307099794854494980/posts/2iRZ...

In the early days of FB, the users were all horny college kids. Of course they were glued to what was essentially an online cocktail party.