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Zuckerberg closes off Google+ account so he can't be tracked
POSSIBLE SOCIAL NETWORK FOUNDER Mark Zuckerberg has lost his lofty position as the most popular Google+ user and appears to have dropped out of the rankings altogether.
Zuckerberg was top of the Google+ ratings as late as Tuesday evening, and when we last looked had some 21,213 followers and 39 friends. Today he is nowhere to be seen and has been replaced by Robert Scoble, the man who confirmed to us all that this Zuckerberg was the real Zuckerberg.
"Name drop moment. Zuckerberg just texted me back. Says 'Why are people so surprised that I'd have a Google account?'," said the Scobleizer on his Twitter feed.
Zuckerberg's loss is Scoble's gain ironically, as it is he that now has the most friends, 3,645, and followers, 43,131. Next to him is US technology journalist, Leo Laporte, who has 389 friends and 42,875 followers. Digg founder Kevin Rose is in third place, actress Felicia Day is fourth, and Myspace's Tom, who is apparently enjoying his retirement, is fifth.
Other notable Google+'ers have also dropped out of the main rankings. These include Google staffers Larry Page, who had 14,798 followers and no friends last week, Vic Gundotra, Google SVP of social networking, who was in third place with 13,783, but no friends, and Sergey Brin who was fourth with 11,629 followers, no friends.
The changes were revealed on the Google+ account belonging to the Social Statistics compiler Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten. He explained that some Google+ members could no longer be tracked as they had further closed off their accounts on Tuesday. Interesting that Zuckerberg, the man so happy to gather and share so much of everyone else's data on Facebook, is suddenly so protective over his own.
"Mark Zuckerberg and Google management (Matt Cutts, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Vic Gundotra and Marissa Mayer) all changed their profiles overnight and consequently dropped out of the Google+ top 100 list!", he explained.
"Robert Scoble +Kevin Rose +Leo Laporte you guys are the new top 3 at [Socialstatistics] Zuckerberg and management at Google all gone. Congratulations!". µ
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Some of you guys are simple minded. These people are highly relevant to technology, and popular culture all together. We "rank" based on friends and followers because it relates to the current trends. By analyzing the popularity of tech giants, we can predict changes in the industry.
Try learning a bit about market analysis.
Like everyone else says, his account is still active.
And who cares who has the most friends online anyways. Is this really worth writing an article about? ...like really?
https://plus.google.com/104560124403688998123/posts
Zuckerburg is still active with 165830 ppl having him in his circle ! He hasn't added anyone in his circle yet !!!!
I am looking at Mark Zuckerberg's account right now - it is still very much active.
Current followers: 165 830
RIP Facebook.
Google+ is coming for you.
I CLOSED MINE BEFORE I EVEN OPENED IT, YA HAR.
...hack their phones to find out what they are doing!
Actually it looks like vic and matt just changed their profile names for some reason.
@Mike That's right, Mark is still there, he just decided to change his privacity settings, I also have set my profile so that only certain circles can watch certain information...
Also, @Darren is right, nowadays some mass media consider the social network's accounts value by the number of "friends" when it's really suppossed to be valued by each friend's value.
Greetings!
And here I thought only adolescent girls cared about who had the most "friends"....this Is really kind of pathetic.
i don't understand why it is considered a good thing to have thousands of friends on a social network. are they reading all of those friends' posts?
Zuckerberg only opened a google+ account to see what features he can steal for Facebook. So who cares..
They didn't quit. They hid who has them in circles and who they have in circles. It's a privacy option. Just because you can't see it doesn't mean other people cannot.
Also, saying that people you have in circles are all your 'friends' is somewhat a misrepresentation. Not everyone in my circles i consider a friend.
Are we really now ranking people on their friend counts?
The media has found a new low.
Social networks are useful as communication tools to keep track of your friends. Who cares who is following Mark or anyone else?
boring...
@Nige
If you haven't heard of *any* of those people, you either educate your self or you shouldn't be reading a tech news site.
Also, since when was Felicia Day a video game designer? She's only ever done voice acting as far as I know.
Probably it's me - but I've never heard of any of the people mentioned in this article!
Since they all did it at the same time you must conclude that either they became aware of some flaw or they agreed it was silly to steal the show since they are management and agreed with each other to 'hide'
Or there's some tax break they miss if they are open.. ;)
Or maybe there's some secret VIP google++ added now that only a selected few have access to.