The whole feature seems like a bug. Even under the best of conditions who would want to text their entire address book that they had photos to share? It's (IMO) socially obnoxious behavior and should be made difficult to do.

Maybe I'm not in the target demographic, but I'm guessing that most people have a mix of contacts in their contact list that conform to different social situations. Not all of them would care to know I had photos to share.

From theverge's article (above this post currently)

"Path is really best with friends and we really want to help users invite the people that they care about to their Path as quickly as possible," said Nate Johnson, VP of marketing for Path. Johnson said the Path customer service team has reached out to Kenwright, but right now it looks like nothing went wrong with the app.