Requests to stage more mobs flooded in, says Staci Lawrence, co-founder of Flash Mob America.
Kogi ("meat" in Korean) publicised guerrilla appearances of its fashionably designed truck via Twitter and attracted a flash mob following.
At a gathering of pharmaceutical-marketing executives in Las Vegas last year, attendees saw Flash Mob America in action.
It staged a 2011 flash mob that included a funky-chicken dance at a minor-league baseball game in Visalia, Calif.
The Environment Agency has staged a flash mob in Bristol in an attempt to get more people to sign up to its flood warning service.
Going forward, Disney will bring together the Haunted Mansion with all nearby attractions and activities to create a universal experience, similar to a flash mob performance.
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He recently formed a Broadway for Hillary 2016 group and said he wants to plan a "flash mob" in Times Square with supporters holding Hillary signs.
Flash Mob America, which stages events at corporate conferences and trade shows, began in 2009 after a group of friends put on a flash-mob tribute to Michael Jackson, which went viral.
In the art studio, we stopped to admire a sculpture created by the community's Tuesdays at 4 club, a gang of 90-somethings notorious for having organized a flash mob in Union Square.
The year before, 160 individuals formed a flash mob in Grand Central Terminal, where, to the sounds of Barbra Streisand and Prince, they executed a seven-minute dance routine inspired by Bob Fosse.
"Cheesy, pre-scripted, commercialized performances" have spoiled the flash mob's original artistic spark, says Sean Savage, a designer for tablets and mobile devices often credited with coining the term "flash mob" on his blog 'cheesebikini?
The flash mob was a way "to get our clients excited so that they would tweet or discuss it on LinkedIn, " says Elizabeth Marshall, vice president of marketing for Decision Resources Group, which organized the conference.
Last year, the phenomenon emerged in other cities, including London and Philadelphia, where the city cited the culprits as members of a "flash mob" who decided to gather at a given place via e-mail and social media.
"Unfortunately these types of cybercrimes involving ATMs, where you've got a flash mob going out across the globe, are becoming more and more common, " said Rose Romero, a former federal prosecutor and regional director for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Rather than fight this "iTax" with a flash mob version of the Boston Tea Party, Web users should see the proposal for what it is: another sign that the Web is all grown up now and needs to stop coming back to its parents' house to do laundry.
Similarly, there are flash-mob-like actions that react in short time frames such as the Kony 2012 project.
Often "we would be leaving right as the police were pulling up to break us up, " says Mr. Wasik, the flash-mob pioneer.
Events include a "flash knit mob" picnic at Stratford Park Leisure Centre, with yarn bombing and other knitting activities for both the experienced and total beginner.
With events organised from Caracas to Cincinnati, these flash-mob style fights have been held worldwide since 2008, with more than 100 cities joining in the fun this year.
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