Thursday, October 25, 2012

week 10 - reading assignment 10

read an article and respond with three questions.
Has Viral Gone Viral?  Bilton 2010
  1. This idea of a viral influx of people is fascinating. Did Twitter and AOL have to update their supporting infrastructure in reaction?
    • In one of my Comp Sci classes a professor was explaining to us how Amazon has a warehouse of servers they make use of in times of great demand as they previously encountered a Christmas time bombardment of use that essentially crashed their system. This must be the result of a virally spread interest in order in advance and online. 
  2. Could this newly developed issue of the over abundance of second hand relaying of information that has zero to no validity be blamed on the viral nature of the internet?
  3. In what other aspects of our life, if there are any, does this exponential growth in popularity occur?

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