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The statistics link on the page has the following stats:

Male 698,703 (73.70%) Female 234,504 (24.74%)

and top occupations:

Engineer , Developer , Designer , Software Engineer, Writer , Web Developer , Software Developer, Programmer

Exactly what kind of Social Network is it?

Keep in mind that Google+ is currently in field test mode and thus has a special appeal to the computer savvy crowd.

I am fully aware of it. The question is what would create the appeal for the common masses.

You think the common masses were on facebook in 2004?

I mean the initial user distribution was different and then there wasn't a strong competitor. The initial user base was the appeal for the masses.

field test mode

Is that what used to be called alpha test?

I find it fascinating that writer is a top occupation.The other ones aren't surprising but that one kinda stuck out to me.

I don't have any data to back this up, but I wouldn't be surprised if many/most of those writers are tech writers, bloggers and similar. Google were smart about who was let in on the ground floor. 1) People who have strong social graphs (on the internet); 2) People who will actively engage and explore new technology. Sounds like a blogger to me.

I thought (perhaps incorrectly) bloggers listed themselves as bloggers not writers normally.

The pro novelists I know have taken to social media in a strong way. Same with indie filmmakers.

Two reasons, I think. One, obviously, is the opportunity for promotion. But two, these are very lonely professions, and they seem to welcome any excuse for community.

The would be novelists I know are as well. Still found it surprising they are THAT high on the list.

That's actually a much higher ratio of female/male than I would have expected for an early-adopter scenario. Mozilla's beta-test program is over 90% self-reported male. http://blog.mozilla.com/metrics/2010/08/26/who-are-our-firef... On the other hand, all three winners of Google's science fair were girls, so I guess Google is doing something right with the make-tech-appealing-to-women department.

Exactly what kind of Social Network is it?

It's a beta/early-release social network that by nature is going to be highly skewed in the beginning. Did you expect to see pre-school teachers, housewives, and elephant trainers among the top users at this stage?

Isn't it odd that Larry and Sergey don't seem to be following anyone? If you want to do social right, maybe you should start by really using your product.

Not at all: you can readily restrict the visibility of that information, and it looks like Find People on Plus has opted to render a lack of data as a zero.

From the looks of their actual streams, Larry[0] and Sergey[1] are both active users of Google+:

[0]: https://plus.google.com/106189723444098348646/posts

[1]: https://plus.google.com/109813896768294978296/posts

We're working on improving the Country data. Long story. It has to do us using Avg country Lat/Longs and the unstructured data in G+ profiles.

Thanks for letting us know man! I just thought no one liked us that much.

No worries - we're Canadian and even OUR country didn't didn't make the cut Eh.

According to that there are no people using plus in Australia.

Edit: Conroy probably banned it to protect us all.

Works for me: http://www.findpeopleonplus.com/Country-Australia

It was not listed though as it is probably under the threshold to be listed on the side

Can't handle unicode?

http://www.findpeopleonplus.com/page-2

This dude

https://plus.google.com/108084961215908246598/posts

Thx for pointing this out. We drew a line in the sand to go live - as you know with dev that line is always a moving target open to intrepreation and opinion. Broke for now. But not broke for good.

Google Api is not public yet. Just curious, how are they getting their data? Screen scraping maybe?

How was this data collected?

I'd love to hear a little more about how this was built. Very nice!

I ran through the list until page 14 or something and started to see so many people from Japan, wasn't expecting it.

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