Lot of damn crickets out there.
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Amid reports that people were losing interest in Google+, Google on Tuesday opened its new social network to the public and registered its peak day of traffic.
According to an Experian Hitwise rep, visits were up 1007 percent on Tuesday, versus the previous peak on July 12. Visits to the site increased by 1700 percent from Monday and Google+ secured a spot on the list of top 50 most visited sites in the U.S., surging up from the number 774 slot it occupied just a day before.
The Hitwise data does contain one caveat: it doesn't take into account mobile traffic or activity in the notification bar.
Even so, by nixing the invitation-only status on Google+, Google was able to drive some impressive traffic to the site and drum up new interest.
According to unofficial Google+ statistician Paul Allen, Google+ added around 10 million users in the first two days it was public.
"It is clear that Google+ is absolutely exploding - 30 percent growth in just 2 days and with a base of nearly 30 million members already," Allen said in a post on his G+ profile.
His last estimate on Sept. 9 put the number of Google+ members at 28.7 million. By Thursday, he speculated that the number had soared to 43.4 million.
"The growth rate has skyrocketed to rates we only saw during the first week of its 'field test' - back when it had a small number of users to begin with, the growth rates were of course much higher."
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