digg effect
Derived from
slashdot effect, an insane increase in traffic after a link to a news article is promoted to the digg.com front page. This is sort of like an unintentional DDOS attack, but sometimes the increased traffic (and ad exposure) causes
webmasters and bloggers to post links to their sites on digg.
The digg effect will usually not have much of an effect on larger websites but small websites may be shut down quickly due to the server not being able to cope with the high amount of requests or because all of their bandwidth is consumed.
digg effect
by Graham T C on Jun 14, 2006 01:34:46
the result of an online story hitting the
frontpage of
digg
it creates a massive swarm of traffic to the website that was "
dugg", causing the servers that the website is hosted on to become extremely slow and laggy
digg effect
by themanderson on Jul 07, 2006 14:33:06
Example:
Casual
techie: I just read on Digg how to run Linux from
my computer's BIOS and am about to run it for the first time.
Techie: You fool. You have fallen victim to the
Digg effect. I'll let Dell know your computer is on its way.
the digg effect
by Graham T C on Jun 14, 2006 01:32:13
the result of an online story hitting the
frontpage of
digg
it creates a massive swarm of traffic to the website that was "
dugg", causing the servers that the website is hosted on to become extremely slow and laggy
Example:
---
Person One: dude,
my website just got to the
front page of
digg!
Person Two: soon, you'll be suffering from the digg effect
---
Digg effect
by Ninja337 on Aug 22, 2006 12:22:18
The Digg Effect
by DigitalPenguin on Sep 21, 2009 01:18:04
The results of having your article, video, song or photos make the front page of the
social news website,
Digg.com. This often results in a
server crash although many bloggers see this as a trophy.
Example:
"We just got hit by
the Digg effect...15,000 hits before our server
crashed!".
"My
article 'Man gets eaten by man hungry penguin' got the Digg effect...over 35,000 page views in 2 hours!".