Google+ had a few hiccups this weekend when its notification system went haywire and began to fire out multiple emails about individual actions on the service. Our email inbox was clogged with 64 indentical messages and we saw reports of many other Google+ users with the same issues.
Google’s head of social, Vic Gundotra, appropriately headed for Google+ to explain how the glitch had occurred. For a company where servers seem to breed like rabbits, the answer was a little shocking: it seems Google+ ran out of disk space…
In his Google+ post, Gundotra explains:
“For about 80 minutes we ran out of disk space on the service that keeps track of notifications. Hence our system continue to try sending notifications. 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.“
While Google+ is in “field trial” mode as Gundotra was quick to note, we’re still pretty suprised that Google with its vast data storage resources was knocked off course by lack of space. Even for a product in one of Google’s almost perpetual beta stages, that seems very sloppy.
If you’re using Google+, let us know how you’ve been getting on. Is it useful or just another social network to keep up with?
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