flashcrowd
English
Alternative forms
- flash crowd
Etymology
flash + crowd
Noun
flashcrowd (plural flashcrowds)
- 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.
- 2004 December 18, Johan Pouwelse, “The BitTorrent P2P file-sharing system”, The Register .
- 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”, The Register .
See also
- slashdot