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Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook is the most-followed on Google+, ahead of Google chief executive Larry Page and co-founder Sergey Brin


The service has grown rapidly in the two weeks since its launch, with one estimate saying it already has between 5m and 10m members. Besides Zuckerberg, Page and Brin, senior Google engineers are among the most-followed names.


But unlike Twitter, where celebrities and big names have used their visibility to interact directly with the public, Zuckerberg has not posted a single comment on the service. Page, Google's chief executive and co-founder, last posted at the end of June. Sergey Brin, the other co-founder, is much more active, posting pictures three or four times a day – though he says: "I think a lot of people are under the misimpression that I am posting photos of exotic places at a furious pace to Google+. Actually, I have had a bunch of albums public for some time on my picasaweb page. However, people only started to take note recently thanks to Google+ and when they comment on those photos they end up in the streams of people who have me in their circles."


At one point this week Zuckerberg increased his privacy settings so that it was impossible to see who followed him – he had already hidden the names of those whom he followed – but he then relented, according to Social Statistics, a website which scrapes the Google+ service to collect data about it.



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Google+'s most popular person is ... Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg