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Comment by MatthewPhillips | Hacker News Reader

Does clicking this link suddenly make me an active user?

Clicking on any link will make you a monthly active user on that destination site's metrics.

I would like to see a breakdown of what people do on g+. For example, using google talk to have a video conversation results in a g+ notification...

This time Vic specified that this is people accessing plus.google.com and mobile app. So I'm reasonably sure using gtalk on gmail wouldn't count.

Clearly such a breakdown would be interesting. But in context you seem to be implying that a video call "doesn't count" as a Google+ usage. If you, say, take a Instagram photo or message someone using Facebook chat but don't look at the front page, are you "not using Facebook?". I'd expect Facebook would count you as a "user" for the day, no?

I'm not saying 100,000 is an unfair statistic, but what I meant to get at instead was growth through g+ versus inclusion through tack-on services (a totally valid and excellent way to bring users into your product :-) as I tend to agree with some of the other comments describing it as "the path of least resistance" for sharing content through google.

When google adds plus to video chat, is that tack on?

When fb adds video chat to your feed, us that tack on?

probably, but the same can be said about Facebook users. Anyways, Vic expanded more about this metric in the comments:

The numbers at I/O were google+ users all across Google. So gmail users who used circles, or Android users who plus oned an app etc were included. Today's number of 100m is just on our plus.google.com destination site and the mobile app. Pretty amazing.

I think so. If so, I'd be part of the 100 million monthly actives. I don't have a google+ account but I do visit the pages of certain well known people in the industry every now and then.

If you Like something, anywhere on the web, you're one of Facebook's "monthly active users".

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