Britney Spears Tops Google+’s Rankings

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Article submitted by iClimber (A Social Media Marketing Company)

If you weren’t keeping a close eye on the popularity rankings on Google+, you might have been surprised to learn after recovering from your tryptophan-induced Thanksgiving grogginess, that Britney Spears had gotten to that social network’s top spot. To get there she inched out Larry Page — Google’s CEO and co-founder — over whom she currently has a lead of over 70 thousand followers.

Although the money machine behind Britney couldn’t be happier about her wining placement in a “major” social network, Google brass, including Larry, is probably even more pleased about her come-up as it constitutes a good indicator of Google+’s acceptance by the online masses. And, on the more personal side, taking one from Britney Spears is a lot more tolerable than taking one from an arch nemesis called Mark Zuckerberg. When the twenty-seven-year-old head of Facebook joined Google+, he shot up in popularity and reigned, for a while, as the person most followed on Google+. During this time, Larry Page had to endure the pointed embarrassment of being second in his own network to Zuckerberg.

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But the reasons for Zuckerberg’s and Page’s high rankings on Google+ is that as fledgling, if super-well-funded social network, its early adaptors are those most entrenched in tech culture — hence the tech kings’ chart toppings. Britney Spears’ ascendance signals that Google+ is being embraced by more than technology aesthetes.

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