For example, we discovered in IBM that when a particular eminent blogger talked about a new product announcement, it increased audience traffic to the product information web pages almost a thousand-fold.

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In one part of the market where the sound of sewing machines was louder than the noise of traffic, a young tailor explained before the ceasefire announcement how it was hard to work in fear and uncertainty.

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The malicious announcement of BGP routes could temporarily completely disrupt Internet traffic for any network and could have spillover effects that could take an entire country offline, as happened in the Pakistan-YouTube incident.

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Announcement from Genachowski : He notes that there is a WiFi traffic jam.

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Within hours, according to the cybersecurity researchers at Panda Labs, the loose group of hackers that calls itself Anonymous launched a distributed denial of service attack that threw junk traffic at the web server of the blog that had made the WikiLeaks announcement, and by 4am had taken the site offline.

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Now, having taken control, one of the hijackers makes an announcement, meant for the passengers, but picked up by air traffic control.

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