Pages tagged twittereffect:

Royal Pingdom » Dawn of the Twitter Effect
http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/02/03/dawn-of-the-twitter-effect/

Blog on Twitter shutting down a site.
Yesterday a Twitter post (a tweet) by Mashable’s Pete Cashmore became so popular that traffic from Twitter crashed a blog. This sounds very similar to a common social media phenomenon originally known as the Slashdot effect (and later also the Digg effect), where a post on a popular social media site pushes more traffic than the target site can handle.