In A Room Full Of Apple Fans, Google+ Wins Social App Of The Year At The Crunchies

Google+ wins social app of the year at the 2012 crunchies photo: TDG Media

The 2012 Crunchies just ended in San Francisco California. Despite being constantly pegged as “Apple Fanboys”, TechCrunch, GigaOM and VentureBeat gave the award for best social application to Google+.

Google released Google+ their new social network just six short months ago and they’ve been building scale at a rate quicker than any other social network in history. Two weeks ago during Google’s fourth quarter earnings call, CEO Larry Page announced that Google+ had 90 million users. Again, a major feat for a social network launched in late June.

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