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Contiluo Posted 15 years ago
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Went viral

I read a piece of news from the New York Times as following. However, I was confused by the idiom "went viral." What does it mean?

A few days before a coalition of Western and Arab powers began air attacks to defend Libyan rebels under siege by Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi's forces, a revealing video on YouTube went viral.
  

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Hi, It's a failrly new bit of internet slang. It means something posted on the internet became wildly popular. A few people saw it and recommended it to their friends, The friends recommended it to their friends, And so on.

  • Hi, It's a failrly new bit of internet slang.
  • It means something posted on the internet became wildly popular.
  • A few people saw it and recommended it to their friends, The friends recommended it to their friends, And so on.
  • And so on.
  • Its popularity spread like a virus.
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Hi,
It's a failrly new bit of internet slang.

It means something posted on the internet became wildly popular.
A few people saw it and recommended it to their friends,
The friends

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