In Google+ Popularity Contest, Larry Page Now Beats Mark Zuckerberg

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is no longer the “most-circled” person on Google+.

That honor now rests, more appropriately, with Google cofounder and CEO Larry Page. Page is now in possession of more than 601,000 followers; Zuckerberg, despite having never posted on Google+, has just south of 599,000.

Several Google executives began posting more frequently and publicly to Google+ after the company’s senior management was criticized for not using its own products. Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt only joined Google+ earlier this month.

Google+ has amassed more than 40 million users since launching in closed beta in July, Google disclosed in its third-quarter earnings report two weeks ago. The social network became widely available to the public in late September.

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