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If they don't start actually sending invites soon, a lot of the initial buzz will die and the people without invites will just stay where they are. If the person in a group who generally gets others on a service cannot get in, then it will be a problem. I don't think the gmail curve will work the same for a social network.

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Apparently they opened it up already for all people to join, at least here in Spain.

I signed up for a notification fairly early but haven't received anything (USA). I also go to the plus.google.com page and it still has the we will notify you message.

Friends can "share" with an email address, the recipient receives an email with a "learn more" button/link and after they click that they are able to create an account. Sometimes the user will get a message stating that they are over capacity, trying again a day later generally works fine.

Out of my social graph about one-third of my friends are on Google Plus and that number will only keep growing in the future, currently about 3 - 4 a day are moving over from Facebook. It is already at that point that those who I communicate with the most have completely stopped using Facebook and are using just Google+

Is your social graph that is on google mostly tech folks? The problem I'm getting at is that a normal person going to the site is still getting the later message which means that quite a lot of social graphs won't show up since the one or two people needed to get them on cannot get on themselves.

Yes, most of them are my college friends, so they are technical. I've also gotten quite a few people on there that are not technical at all, they just wanted to give something new a try =). Had quite a few people on Diaspora that way as well.

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