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warn|neologism

Alternative spellings
flash crowd

Noun
flashcrowd, also flash crowd

#The sudden increase in popularity of an Internet site or resource due to an event or link from another site.
#*1971, Larry Niven, Flash Crowd
#*:The mall riot was the first successful riot in twenty years. �The police can get to a riot before it's a riot,� said McCord?. �We call them flash crowds, and we watch for them.�
#*2004 December 18, Johan Pouwelse, â��The BitTorrent? P2P? file-sharing systemâ��, The Register ¹.
#*:We now focus on the system's reaction to the sudden popularity of a single (new) file. This phenomenon is also called the flashcrowd effect.

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