The Google Plus flop...

This is an actual email that Google sent me to try to tempt me back to Google Plus:
A chocolate ad
A caption to an Oatmeal cartoon (not labelled as such) without the actual image
The word ‘Word’ from an online games company
I don’t… — This is an actual email that Google sent me to try to tempt me back to Google Plus:

A chocolate ad

A caption to an Oatmeal cartoon (not labelled as such) without the actual image

The word ‘Word’ from an online games company

I don’t think any further explanation of why Plus is failing is really needed

Benedict Evans14 March 2012

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Benedict Evans14 March 2012

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