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Buzz & Google Wave share same future

googleSoon after the proclamation made by Google to drop its cross platform communication tool, Wave, after 15 months of release it has been stated that Google might bring down its social networking service, Buzz.

Experts state that Buzz does not seem to have serve any purpose apart from permitting Gmail users to "go beyond status messages" and thus offering them to initiate their updations.

Senior Vice President, Operations & Google Fellow, Urs Hölzle, said, "The principal reason why Google Wave was retired was because it did not attract the number of users that had been expected from it; in other words, it failed on the most important metrics of them all."

It was further added that Buzz platform was initially released attracting close to 200 posts per minute on mobile phone and offering a decent stats of 160,000 comments and posts per hour.

However gradually the market turned over for Buzz as Twitter and Facebook took over the competition and now as per the reports of tech magazine Techcrunch and Mashable it is stated that these two of the best in the business.

Pete Cashmore, Mr Mashable, has approximately more than two million followers on Twitter but only 24,000 on Google Buzz. This when added to the fact Buzz contributes more to the issues of its privacy issues is one of the concerns of the social networking platform.