Google+ will be fastest service ever to hit 100M users

Bill Gross, the founder and CEO of the business incubator Idealab, as well as the Twitter app companyUbermedia, has high hopes for Google+. "I predict that Google+ will go from 0 to 100,000,000 users faster than any other service in history" Grosswrote on the service this morning.

A bold prediction indeed, but there is a very good chance that he is on the right track. Once Google+ becomes available to anyone with a Google account, the amount of users on it will undoubtedly explode. Gmail alone has over 200 million users globally, and Google reach via search and other services adds hundreds of millions of other potential users just waiting to jump into G+.

Currently Google+ is available to people with a public Google profile, and the search giant resumed sending out Google+ invitations last week after closing them for a few days due to what it said was "insane demand."

Gross is no stranger to social networking. He launched the Twitter aggregation startup TweetUp last year, which eventually became Ubermedia as Gross added features to the company core app and purchased mobile Twitter apps Echofon and TwitDroid. Ubermedia was also reportedly in negotiations to acquire the popular client TweetDeck before Twitter snapped it up.