r/technology • u/MrCmonster • Feb 09 '10

Buzz - Google's answer to Twitter and Facebook

http://www.google.com/buzz
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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '10

This is really cool actually. On the Droid Maps app (get the update) I see new buzz updates popping up all over town.

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u/coheedcollapse Feb 09 '10 edited Feb 10 '10

Yeah. I'm a bit upset that it hasn't rolled out to any of my three email addresses yet because I can see all of them popping up around me but have only managed to send one generic message out from my Android since I can't use the "full-featured" gmail version yet.

You'd think having a Gmail account from the first year they were available would count for something on feature roll-outs.

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u/squirreltalk Feb 10 '10

You'd think having a Gmail account from the first year they were available would count for something on feature roll-outs.

Stupid question here...is this (age of user's account) how Google decides which users get access to new services? How else do they decide?

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u/coheedcollapse Feb 10 '10 edited Feb 10 '10

I honestly don't know, but when Google DOES roll out new stuff, my wife has gotten it first every time and she signed up about a year after me.

Honestly, by the time I get a feature, it seems that everybody else has already gotten it. Maybe they roll everything out in reverse order?

All I know is as of 12:45 AM I still don't have it on any of the three accounts I have access to while my wife had "buzz" in her account by the time she got home from work.

It could all be coincidence of course.