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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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