[shuw]

I don't know if Google announced this earlier, but this post just released more granular active (I assume monthly) user numbers for G+ than I've seen:

"More than 500 million people have upgraded, 235 million are active across Google (+1'ing apps in Google Play, hanging out in Gmail, connecting with friends in Search...), and 135 million are active in just the stream."

[eungyu]

I thought it was very odd that Google inserted this paragraph in the beginning of a feature announcement blog post. I think it only reaffirms the inferiority complex of G+ by explicitly explaining that they are indeed a vibrant community.

[dannyr]

Don't read into it much. Google announces its daily Android activations regularly and it has the largest smartphone share in the world.

Facebook does that too.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/23/facebook-announces-monthly-...

Remember when people knock Google for not announcing Google+ numbers? They are saying Google is announcing numbers because they are bad.

[jxi]

Inferiority complex? Seems like a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation. If they didn't, would you claim they didn't release numbers because they feel they have fewer users?

I don't think they're trying to imply anything. What's wrong with just giving you some numbers without any motivation behind it?