According to the latest research from GlobalWebIndex one in four web users are still using the much-maligned social network.

When the consumer trends research firm polled its permanent sample of 3 million people across 34 countries, 23 per cent said that they'd actively contributed to Google+ over the past month.

And, as for where the network has its biggest fans, Latin America is home to its largest user base -- 32 per cent of web users there say they use Google+ monthly.

North America is where it's least popular (16 per cent) and in Europe (20 per cent) things aren't much better, but in the Middle East and Africa (29 per cent) and in the Asia Pacific region excluding China (27 per cent) -- in other words the fastest-growing internet uptake areas -- it is proving very popular.