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Google+ to beat Twitter, LinkedIn

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google plusGoogle+ Inc’s new social-networking service may grow to claim 22 per cent of online US adults in a year, passing Twitter and LinkedIn to be the second- most-used social site after Facebook Inc, a survey found.

Google+ has signed up 13 per cent of US adults and will add 9 percent over the next year, according to the survey from Bloomberg/YouGov. In the same period, Facebook will lose about 2 percentage points of US adults to keep 69 per cent of that population, while Twitter and LinkedIn continue to grow their portion of users.

Started in late June, Google+ is growing faster than Facebook and MySpace Inc. did in their early days. The service, which lets people connect with and manage groups of friends on a website, gained about 25 million users worldwide in less than a month, estimates market researcher ComScore Inc Facebook has more than 750 million active users.

“Google+ is tracing a path similar to Facebook’s initial growth — building excitement in a core group of early adopters,” said Michael Nardis, head of YouGov investment products, in a statement about the survey.

Katie Watson, a spokeswoman for Mountain View, California- based Google, declined to comment. Jonathan Thaw, a spokesman for Facebook, and Matt Graves, a spokesman for Twitter, also declined to comment.

Google+ eyeing to interact more with Facebook and Twitter

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Google PlusGoogle’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt has said that he would like Google+ to interact more with Facebook and Twitter.

Speaking to journalists at a media conference in Idaho, Schmidt admitted that he’d ‘love to have deeper integration with Twitter and Facebook.’

But so far the attempts to bring more interaction between Google+ and Facebook have been unsuccessful as Facebook has been resisting Google+’s talks to import Facebook friends.

Twitter too isn’t much of a help, keeping in mind the search deal between Google and Twitter ended recently without renewal as they couldn’t agree on terms.

Schmidt quite rightly pointed out that it is too early to say how Google+ is doing but did bring up video hang outs, which he said are very popular with younger users.

But now that Facebook has launched its own Skype-powered video chat feature, Google+ may lose some users to Zuckerberg’s bigger and better-established network.