http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Fri, 24 May 2013 19:41:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/09/18/google-surpasses-400-million-users-in-first-12-months/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/09/18/google-surpasses-400-million-users-in-first-12-months/#comments Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:58:16 +0000 Alex Masters http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=28489 With 400 million users and over 100 million active monthly, Google+ is turning into the company’s first real social success. So why do people still refer to it as a ghost town? Just because it hasn’t replaced Facebook, doesn’t mean it’s a failure. In fact, it’s quite the opposite.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/09/18/google-surpasses-400-million-users-in-first-12-months/feed/ 5