flashcrowd
nounEtymology From flash + crowd.
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The large number of people brought by the sudden increase in popularity of an Internet site or resource due to an event or link from another site.
- 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.2004 December 18, Johan Pouwelse, “The BitTorrent P2P file-sharing system”, in The Register:
- Related terms
- slashdot