Google+ VP of Product Bradley Horowitz Friday that the service would be piloting a suggested user mechanism and asked people with more than 100,000 followers on Twitter to contact him.

Criticism was fast and furious.

Tech pundit Robert Scoble has said he wants off the list and San Francisco Chronicle blogger Zennie Abraham suggested the list fosters racial stereotypes.

Scoble posted he wants Google to remove him from its list, including Paris Hilton being on it but not other deserving people. He also said he didn't want to appear to have a conflict of interest when writing about Google. "It just isn't a well curated list and so I don't want my name associated with it," he wrote.

Abraham , "The Google Suggested User List reads like the typical San Francisco Bay Area tech firm's view of the World: most of the 'interesting and famous people' are white, and if they're black, they're male rappers or athletes. Hello, Snoop Dog, Chamillionaire, 50 Cent, Dwight Howard, and Floyd Mayweather!" As TechCrunch pointed out, a similar suggested user list on Twitter has been because those on it would gain thousands of followers a day, and people not on the list thought this was unjust.