Google+ has a cap in which you can only add 5,0000 people into a circle. By adding 5,000 people to a circle and blocking 1,000 people, you are then able to add 1,000 more people to your circles. When you unblock the original 1,000 people, Google+ would then add those people back to the original circle thus allowing you to have over 5,000 users in one circle.

Using this strategy I was able to acquire 6,203 people in a circle. This translated into an increased amount of people who followed me back to the rate of 10,161. This "exploit" is no longer present on the Social Network. I am the only American to have "exploited" this bug while it existed.

Google Search integrated their Social product into their results very heavily, yet as of January 2012 they have not implemented a way to accept automated messages similar to connecting an RSS feed to Twitter.

A WIDELY overlooked opportunity that Google+ has presented their users, is a way to post to their Google+ profile through Google Voice. What makes this an opportunity is that you can send an email to your Google Voice account which in-turn posts to your Google+ account. By automating this process you are able to achieve automation that Google has not implemented on their Social Product.

The example below shows a colleague with an automated feed from Endgadget posting to Google+ through SMS. Make note that the feed's content has not been cleaned up for full production.

Google+ has a system similar to Facebook's Like button in which you can +1 other people's comments/posts. Everytime your content is +1'd you recieve a notification. I wrote a macro that expanded the most commented posts and +1'd them in order to send out bulk notifications to users to gain more followers.

Google Buzz was a social networking, microblogging and messaging tool that was developed by Google and integrated into their web-based email program, Gmail.

On February 16, 2010, Eva Hibnick, a student at Harvard Law School, filed a class action lawsuit against Google, alleging that Buzz violated several federal laws meant to protect privacy.

Google attempted to overcome its market disadvantage in competing with Twitter and Facebook by making a secondary use of your information. Google leveraged information gathered in a popular service (Gmail) with a new service (Buzz), and set a default to sharing your email contacts to maximize uptake of the service. In the process, the privacy of Google users was overlooked and ultimately compromised.

Due to this exploit, by forcing someone else to follow you without obtaining consumers' permission in advance, I was able to generate 21,712 Google Contacts which put my account at the 25th most popular in the world.