Google+ is still for invite only but there are a lots of people who managed to get the account they are pretty active, so Google started sending out many of them, tens of email notifications, in some cases, even to those that had disabled the feature, didn’t go unnoticed.
People got the copies of the same message over and over again. Google later explained the reason for this spamming.
“Please accept our apologies for the spam we caused this afternoon,” Vic Gundotra, Google’s head of social and anything having to do with Google+, wrote on the company’s new social network.
“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,” he said.
“We didn’t expect to hit these high thresholds so quickly, but we should have. Thank you for helping us during this field trial, and once again, we are very sorry for the spam,” he added.
Actually Google+ is in beta test so these type of problems are expected and Google also did not expected so much users in this less amount of time after the launch.
