How to filter your google plus stream and how to detect if someone is filtering you're stream.

Google Plus users may not be seeing what IC or what I am now considering to be the new spam that is being projected as posts.
You may be asking yourself at this point what spam?  But it's there and it's right in front of your face what I am referring to is shared posts.
Look in your Google+ Stream, you may have seen them without giving it another thought.

Just recently I've been noticing posts from Internet showboats like Robert Scoble and Chris Pirillo and an even Tom Anderson spamming mine and is invading your Google Plus Stream.  I have found myself, commenting on their post just as hundreds have been doing since the Google Plus launched.  But it's not so much mine or us the commenter's fault.  It's the offending posters that are to blame not to mention the fact everyone commenting to those posts are responding to spam.  So here's what's happening and guide you can fix it so you will never received another spam from these intruders because who wants to see this type of thing happening on Google+ anyway. 

 To get rid of spammers go to their Google Plus page and you will see a link to the bottom left corner, see the block User Name.

This is the message you will see if someone has
Blocked you from commenting on their Google+ posts.

Click the block this user.  The dialog reads "What happens if you block User Name, you will no longer receive this persons content in your stream".

• This person won't be able to comment on your content.

• This person will be removed from your circles.

• This person will still be able to see your posts.

Username won't receive an e-mail about these changes you can always unblocked this person later.

This will stop the offending Google Plus intruder from spamming you in the future.  Note: I'm not saying block everyone just block the worst offenders.





     Knowing who is blocking you should be a no brainer. When you have become a usual commenter on one of those spammers posts and let's say they didn't much enjoy the fact you commented something about them; usually a block will come some sort of negative feedback.  Try commenting on one of their posts and use the plus user name +User Name to grab their attention, if google plus gives you an error message "there was a problem updating your comment please try again".  You will know who is blocking you but still want you as their are audience or drone.

Keeping your google about you and what interests you should be your main priority and not some jack Ross way of manipulating you into becoming another one of those drones.  Stay in touch with people in your Circles and create an actual following by creating your own interesting topics, this should be your number #1 goal when using YOUR Google Plus.
And remember to keep things flowing in your stream by sharing interests and helpful information let's keep your Google Plus on the right track.

http://gplus.to/vote

Google+ Approaches 18 Million Users [REPORT]

Google+ continues to set records as the fastest-growing social network in history, but Google’s social juggernaut is beginning to show signs that it’s losing steam.

Ancestry.com co-founder Paul Allen (not to be confused with the Microsoft co-founder of the same name) posted his most recent analysis of Google+’s growth on his Google+ account Tuesday. According to his analysis, the search giant’s Facebook competitor will likely reach 18 million users by the end of Tuesday, but its growth rate has dropped by 50% from its peak.

“Last week we saw two days where more than 2 million signed up in a single day,” Allen said in his post. “If that rate had continued, Google+ would have reached 20 million users by last Sunday night. But the last four days have averaged only 948,000 new users, and yesterday the site added only 763,000. Yesterday’s growth of 4.47% was the slowest viral growth since Google op

ened up invites back on July 6.”

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Why is Google+’s growth slowing down? Google Trends indicates that the buzz around Google+ has died down some, which is natural for any major news item. Allen makes the important point that Google+ hasn’t been promoted by any of its other properties and that the social network is still invite-only. Once Google+ is promoted on YouTube or on Google.com, its growth may simply skyrocket.

Allen estimated that Google+ hit the 10 million user mark sometime on June 12 or 13. Google CEO Larry Page confirmed that Google+ had more than 10 million users during an investor earnings call on July 14. Its most followed user, Mark Zuckerberg, now has more than 250,000 followers, despite not posting a single public item on his Google+ account.

Google Plus Mentions Beat Buzz? But Not Facebook Or Twitter?

If you think the buzz around Google+ is bigger than it was for Google Buzz, then you’re right. But if you think Google+ is monopolizing social media conversation, you’re way off.

That’s the gist of new research from Sysomos, a social media analytics firm. At Mashable‘s request, Sysomos compared the social media chatter for Google Buzz when it launched in February 2010 to Google+’s introduction this summer.
There’s little comparison between the two launches, according to Sysomos. Google Buzz’s social media mentions peaked at 150,00 while Google+ surpassed 250,000 mentions.

Since its launch a couple of weeks ago, Google+ has garnered more than 106,000 mentions in blogs, close to 30,000 news stories, and 1.9 million tweets. Some 85% of those combined mentions were positive. Those findings were published on Sysomos’s blog on Thursday.
Now for the bad news. Google+’s mentions are nowhere near as prevalent as Facebook’s and Twitter’s. Each of those services gets more than twice as many mentions per day as Google+.
Sheldon Levine, community manager for Sysomos, says he was surprised at the findings. “From my perspective, it seemed like everyone was talking about Google+ a lot,” says Levine. “But it could just seem that way inside the social media world.”


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