New statistics from PlusDemophraphics.com finds as many as 466,828 Google+ users in South Africa, and counting.<\/p>\n
Globally, PlusDemophraphics.com notes approximately 90 million Google+ users worldwide, against more than 800 million active users on Facebook – and approaching five million active users in South Africa.<\/p>\n
PlusDemophraphics.com is owned and operated by Exponential Labs, a small start-up out of Toronto, Canada. \u201cWe’ve been monitoring Google+ since it launched, and our extensive knowledge and experience has made us somewhat of an unofficial authority,\u201d it says.<\/p>\n
The majority of Google+ users in South Africa, 36.32%, are Married; 31.92% are Single; 42.42% are looking for networking; and 39.40% are looking for Friends.<\/p>\n
Approximately 71% of users are male, while the majority of users in SA – at 37.3% – are aged 25-34, followed by 18-24 year olds comprising 35.8%.<\/p>\n
Just less than 28% of users originate from Johannesburg, with about 14% coming from Pretoria, according to PlusDemophraphics.com.<\/p>\n
The majority of users are students, which follows the global pattern.<\/p>\n
Up to 70.38% of global users of Google+ are male, with the majority of users, at 50.4%, in the 18-24 years category.<\/p>\n
Arthur Goldstuck<\/a>, MD of online research group World Wide Worx<\/a>, said: \u201cFacebook has more than 800-million users, around 10 times that of Google+. In South Africa it has close to 5-million users, so if we use the same equation, it (Google+) should have around half-a-million users in South Africa.<\/p>\n \u201cWe will naturally see faster growth in Google+ than in Facebook, due to it coming off a low base, and having Gmail and the Google site itself to drive uptake,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New statistics from PlusDemophraphics.com finds as many as 466,828 Google+ users in South Africa, and counting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[45,53,26,1169,1168],"class_list":["post-4956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-headline","tag-plusdemophraphics-com","tag-social-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4956"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4993,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4956\/revisions\/4993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}