Google Suffers a Google Events Problem

Google rolled out their Google+ Events feature at this week's Google I/O, and not everyone is happy about the change. Several celebrities have taken to the social network to complain that the new feature is bombarding them with random invites to events they've never heard of. The Google+ team did not anticipate that celebrities and users with many followers would have such a problem, and are attempting to solve the problem.

Google rolled out their Google+ Events feature at this week’s Google I/O, and not everyone is happy about the change. Several celebrities have taken to the social network to complain that the new feature is bombarding them with random invites to events they’ve never heard of. The Google+ team did not anticipate that celebrities and users with many followers would have such a problem, and are attempting to solve the problem.

The problem was first reported by Will Wheaton, a web celebrity and formerly a star on Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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