Google+ has beaten Twitter and LinkedIn to become the second-highest most actively used social network after Facebook, according to a study from London-based GlobalWebIndex. The report, which examined usage of the top five social platforms Facebook, Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn and Pinterest globally over the second quarter of this year, revealed Google+ now has 318.4m active users across 31 markets.
Wow, that sure is a creative use of the term "actively used." Google automatically saddles every gmail user with a G+ account unless you opt out; this is not what I would call "active use" when compared to Twitter or even LinkedIn. The stats to the right of this article agree: Mediapost has 651 "G+"s vs. 59.3K Twitter followers. So, let's be serious here.