Liz Gannes

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Google+ Growth Appears to Accelerate — Was It the Muppets?

Allen, who forms his estimates after repeatedly searching Google+ for uncommon surnames, said Google+ is up to 62 million registered users as of today.

Why the bump? For one thing, Google has stepped up Google+ promotion, including releasing a holiday ad of the Muppets rocking out in a Google+ Hangout. There’s also one with basketball great Bill Walton.

At the current accelerated rate, Google+ would have 293 million users by the end of 2012, but Allen said he thinks Android activations will drive the growth rate higher. That seems more intuition than science, though.

(I say: More Muppets!)

Allen, who founded Ancestry.com, also noted that Google+ users seem to be more active sharers, on average, than their Facebook peers. He said the average Google+ user uploads five times more photos per day than the average Facebook user.

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