Google+ Rises Social-Networking Ranks With iPhone App
July 22, 2011 by admin
Filed under Lingerie Events
Google+ has launched an application for the iPhone in a move that could help fuel growth for the nascent social network.
The app was announced only a few days after Google reported that it had more than 10 million users on its new network, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The iPhone 3G, iPhone 3G S and iPhone 4 support the application, and Google previously released a version of the app for Android devices. On Google’s Android Market, Google+ is the eighth most popular free app while Facebook for Android is the second most popular app behind the leader Google Maps.
Google hopes to distinguish itself from Facebook, the social network site with 750 million users around the world.
Mountain View, Calif.-based Google has the resources and influence (2Q revenues: $9.03 billion; 2Q profit: $2.51 billion; cash, cash on hand and marketable securities as of June 30, 2011: $39.1 billion) to potentially make Google+ a viable alternative to Facebook someday.
Already, the Google+ user base has tripled from last week’s 5 million to 18 billion by Tuesday, the International Business Times reported.
But Google is likely to face many challenges ahead as it seeks to refine its nascent social network – many users already have complained that the G+ iPhone app is too slow.
