‘Twitter vs. Google Plus: Why Social Media Marketing Needs Both’ – ‘Business 2 Community’ Article

Sean Johnson says, “The news that Google Plus (Google+) is now the 2nd largest social network, surpassing Twitter and YouTube, seemed to shock a lot of social media marketers this past week. Reaction to the news bordered on anger in some quarters as Twitter advocates were quick to extol the virtue of the micro-blogging platform.

But is it really an either/or question? When it comes to social media marketing, why wouldn’t you use both?
Trendstream, which publishes the Global Web Index, released its fourth quarter data showing the number of active Google+ users has grown to 343 million, making it the second-largest social media network after Facebook, which leads all with more than 700 million active users and more than 1 billion accounts”.