"We're rolling out sharing and +snippets globally over the next week, but if you’d like to try the new +1 button now, you can join our Google+ Platform Preview."
"Daily views" is a bad metric to measure this sort of thing and to me implies they don't have impressive interaction figures so they're picking the biggest number they have. The only thing that "daily views" proves is that some large sites have chosen to use it, but this is supposed to be about user adoption.
I think it's a good move that they are making +1's shareable. At first I thought I wouldn't want to be spammed by +1's, but if they aren't shared, then there isn't much point to them anyway, is there? And it might not be so bad. But are they going to make +1-ing a 2-click action, instead of one? I'm not sure what to think about that yet.
I think GMail had a similar very long-lived invite-only sign-up mechanism. I'm sure part of it is you don't want to join a social network thing with zero social connections.
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It leaves a sour taste in ones mouth.
'Look at this cool thing' - (that you can't use).
If anyone needs to get in, plenty of invites left here: http://goo.gl/WTu3Y