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flashcrowd
noun
, 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, "The BitTorrent
?
P2P
?
file-sharing system",
The Register
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/18/bittorrent_measurements_analysis/
.
:We now focus on the system's reaction to the sudden popularity of a single (new) file. This phenomenon is also called the effect.
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