Mohit’s Weblog

Google+ bombarded spam notifications to the users due to a bug. Many of the Google+ got users got massive notifications today. This may have affected different users differently. I got about 55 notification email filed under a single conversation thread,but many of my friends say they didn't received any kind of such emails.

Vic Gundotra, Senior Vice-President of Social for Google, on his official Google+ page posted 

"Please accept our apologies for the spam we caused this afternoon.

For about 80 minutes we ran out of disk space on the service that keeps track of notifications. Hence our system continued to try sending notifications. Over, and over again. Yikes.

Thank you for helping us during this field trial, and once again, we are very sorry for the spam."

But we’ll likely see even more issues than normal arise from Google+, since its “field trial” status — which has led Google to limit participation in the service so that it can see how Google+ handles the initial stampede of traffic — seems to indicate that it may be even less mature than a typical Google beta test.

For a field test though, Google+ seems to be off to a good start. It’s been the most buzzed about tech topic since it was announced last week, and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt also recently said that it has millions of users (not that that’s a huge surprise).