For the last few years, social media experts have heavily debated Google+ and its role among the big social media platforms. While many claim that it’s a successful, growing platform, others argue that it hasn’t taken off in the way that other well-known sites like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest have.
The data doesn’t paint any clearer of a picture: According to socialmediatoday, a study by GlobalWebIndex claimed that Google+ is the second most-used social network worldwide. But recent studies by the Pew Research Center and ComScore on social media usage don’t even include Google+, and a report by Dartmouth on the adoption of social media by Fortune 500 companies says that only 35% of big companies have a Google+ account, compared with 77% on Twitter and 70% on Facebook.
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