500 Million Users Couldn't Save Google+

How did Google build a social network to kill Facebook — and then bury it? This is the full rise and fall of Google Plus.

In 2011, Google launched Google Plus with one mission: destroy Facebook. It forced the network onto billions of users, tied it to YouTube and every Google account, and for a moment the growth looked unstoppable. But behind the numbers it was a ghost town — and a security flaw the company quietly hid would finish it off. By April 2019, Google Plus was dead.

Chapter three of Killed by Google. This is how the most-forced social network in history became one of Google's most expensive failures.

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CHAPTERS:
0:00 The Social Network Google Buried
0:44 Built to Kill Facebook
2:04 Ten Million Users
4:04 The Line Google Crossed
6:04 A Digital Ghost Town
8:04 Project Strobe
9:24 Google Pulls the Plug
10:44 Why Google+ Really Died

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