Google+ suffers its first major bug: Multiple email notifiions

If you have been using Google+ this afternoon/evening (depending on where you are), you may have experienced what looks to be one of the first major Google+ bugs; multiple email notifiions.Many users havetaken to Twitterto voice their displsure at receiving the notifiions, especially those that have switched off email correspondance in their Google+ settings. Whilst many have been receiving a handful of emails, many have received over 50 messages alerting them that a friend had added them to a Circle:Twitter user @azel reports thefollowing:Google+, I just turned off notifiions today. Why did I receive 30 emails about the same person adding me to a circle?Gmail accounts are starting to resemble something similar to this (thanks@dustinbrewer):The cause it not yet known but we have contacted Google to find out the cause. In the mntime, Twitter userDaniel Obenshainhas said that turning off notifiions and re-enabling them again will fix the issue.We will update the article as soon as we receive a response.UPDATE:Google+ chief, Vic Gundotra has just postedan apologyfor the bug, which he says lasted for 80 minutes.Plse accept our apologies for the spam we caused this afternoon.For about 80 minutes we ran out of space on the service that keeps track of notifiions. Hence our system continued to try sending notifiions. Over, and over again. Yikes.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.

Source: The Next Web