Bill Gross is the founder of prolific business incubator Idealab and its Twitter app builder and buyer Ubermedia; he's wrangled with Twitter headquarters over access to the Twitter API and reportedly tried (unsuccessfully) to outbid Twitter to acquire leading desktop Twitter client Tweetdeck.
But can you guess what Gross is hot on now? Google Plus – the new Google social network launched late last month that's been stealing the hearts, minds and times of many Twitter power players. Today Gross wrote that he thinks Plus may be the fastest social network in history to hit 1 million users and he believes it will likely become the fastest ever to hit 100 million. That's a bold prediction that if accurate could point to some serious social networking disruption. It's also interesting cause to consider what Bill Gross is going to do about it. What kind of apps is he going to build on top of the Google Plus platform once its API is made available?
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