flashcrowd

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noun

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.

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Meanings

nounflashcrowd (plural flashcrowds)

plural flashcrowds · alternative flash crowd

  1. 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

Origin

From flash + crowd.

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APA

flashcrowd. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flashcrowd

MLA

“flashcrowd.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flashcrowd. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “flashcrowd,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flashcrowd.

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