Google+ Male myth
By Techgirl

This is another example of how Internet ‘facts’ take a life of their own.

Last week, I read in at least 10 international sites like Forbes and Mashable that the new Google social networking site Google+ had 90 men to every 10 women. Forbes and Mashable had based their reports on companies which are dedicated to tracking this data.  This skewed sex ratio was then picked up by another 30 newspapers, websites and blogs.  What leaders like Forbes print, others take it as gospel.

Only problem?  Its not true.

Paul Allen founded the hugely successful Ancestry.com and now describes himself as an unofficial Google+ statistician.  Paul has crunched the numbers and come up with the following

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My surname-based random sampling has shown a very different number. For the first time, I'm publishing it here:

4/7/11 -  77% Male, 23% Female
7/7/11 - 68.4% Male, 31.6% Female (after the user base had almost doubled)
14/7/11 - 66.4% Male, 33.6% Female

Google+ is quickly turning pink.
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Techgoss note:  Techgirl is a senior Tech journalist who reports on the IT, KPO and KPO Sectors for a leading media house.  In her spare time, she dabbles in satire in her blog techgirltalk.blogspot.com.  Techgirl has been ejected from Twitter for satirizing an Indian Minister.  Her satire blog has links to her Times of India interview detailing her being kicked out of Twitter, and then being invited back.