Have you been waiting patiently to try Google+? Now could be your chance. Google announced last night that it was once again opening up Google+ invites.
"Things are going well with the systems right now so we feel comfortable enough to open up invites for a brief period," Dave Besbris, engineering director for Google+, wrote in a note on his profile.
The goal is to double the number of people currently on Google+, though the company would not divulge an exact tally.
But don't think this means you can just invite everyone in your email contacts list. "We continue to throttle invites, so please don't mass invite folks as it won't work," Besbris wrote. "If you invite a handful of your most important friends and family you're much more likely to get these folks into our system."
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Google+ made its debut last week, but only via a limited "field trial." As a result, it's now mostly comprised of tech journalists, tech-savvy insiders, and a handful of those who nabbed invites before Google shut them down due to demand. Google+ invites even started showing up on eBay.
Why the slow roll-out? "First, we want to make sure our infrastructure scales so the service remains fast and reliable," Besbris wrote. "Second, we want to ensure that bugs are fixed while there are still a relatively few people in the field trial."
The new invite period went live around 10pm Pacific time last night, so get your invite while you can.
For more, see PCMag's full hands-on with Google+, the slideshow below, as well as 6 Things Google+ Can Do That Facebook Can't and Social Networking Showdown: 8 Facebook Features Google+ Doesn't Have (Yet). On privacy, see Google+ Privacy: Has Google Learned Its Lesson?