Google+ is widely being seen as a potential Facebook killer. After all, the new social networking phenomenon has already garnered more than 20 million users in a very short span of time. But Google has also committed quite a few blunders on its way to 20 million mark and a latest report shows that the consumers' interest in the new site is already waning. According to analytics firm Experian Hitwise, Google+ lost three percent traffic during the week ended on July 23.
The decline may be due to a few mistakes committed by Google. First off, Google decided to mass delete its user profiles with presumably fake names. In some instances, not only their Google+ profiles were yanked but their entire Google service privileges were withdrawn, which meant that these users could not even use their Gmail or Google Docs or other Google services. However, later Google apologized for this harsh treatment and said that complete withdrawal of the services was caused by a bug.
Similarly, it also closed down profile pages belonging to businesses. However, in Google's defense, it may be pleaded that the company had made it amply clear that the in the initial stage, the social networking service is open to individuals only. All these accounts were deleted without and notification and Google said that the lack of notification was due to unexpectedly rapid growth of the network. Well, with the recent decline in traffic, Google will now have plenty of time to implement its policies in the correct way.