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flash crowd

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flash crowd

An unexpected surge in visitors to a Web site, which is typically because of some newsworthy event that just took place. It may also be due to the announcement of a new service or free software download.



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What the flash mobs had in common with the historical antecedents in Niven's short story is that they always seemed to take place under the gaze of some media eye, and, fueled by what Margaret Thatcher once called the "oxygen of publicity," they attracted flash crowds of their own--i.
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