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The Bieber Effect Strikes Instagram

This is probably Instagram’s most famous picture, though you would be forgiven if you thought otherwise. It was just about an hour ago that Instagram noticed a server spike and investigated. The reason: Justin Bieber started to use it, had posted his first picture and had tweeted his 11 million followers: La traffic sucks http://instagr.am/p/IMhuj/.

It used to be the slashdot effect that got your server blown up, but I guess the times, they are a changing…

source techcrunch