When Google+ launched in 2011 people were already fed up with Facebook -- and Google was still cool. After Plus' closed invite garnered significant consumer desire, everyone's hopeful "Facebook killer" nabbed a sweet 300 million active monthly users by 2013 (by comparison, Twitter had 230 million).
No one could have predicted that, on a random Monday seven years later, the tech giant would hang its head, admit a middling API access privacy hole and the existence of tumbleweeds on the service, and then announce it was shuttering Plus to the public.
Goodbye Google+, you beautiful squandered opportunity posted first on https://www.engadget.com
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