Google’s new social network, Google+ already has nearly 20 million users, just three weeks after its launch.
Paul Allen, a statistician behind Ancestry.com revealed on his Google+ profile that the social network would hit the milestone of 18 million people some time yesterday.
Allen added that the social network is gaining new members at a rate of around 750,000 per day.
By comparison, Facebook currently has more than 750 million active users, Twitter has 190 million users and LinkedIn has over 100 million users worldwide.
Just days after launching Google+, Google was turning people away because demand was much higher than it expected.
The firm also deleted business profiles from the network and telling companies to hold off using the consumer version as a commercial version was around the corner.
Registration for the testing phase of the business version opened last week.
Growth of the network is expected to soar when Google starts marketing it through its other products, including YouTube.
