ADP shut off Zenefits access to its servers on June 4th, due to what ADP said was a spike in user traffic and a security risk from Zenefits.
Even posts using the phrase "emigration" have been censored - after several users alleged that there had been a spike in web users searching for "emigration" on search engine Baidu since the announcement was made.
Its launch today should certainly prompt a spike in new users, though just how many remains to be seen.
The remaining regions will gain access as from this month, which Opera hopes will cause a spike in new users and enable it to strengthen its foothold in Russia.
Even without a native Mac app, HipChat has managed some impressive growth since the Atlassian acquisition, including a threefold spike in users over the past 10 months, and an increase to 3,500 paying customers covering both small and large teams.
On the other hand, Unocoin, which recently secured funding from Blume Ventures and U.S.-based trading firm Digital Currency Group, has registered a threefold spike in users in the past month, to 120,000 and has witnessed a spike in trading volumes, which have doubled to about 300 bitcoins in a day.
"We've noticed a huge spike in users taking butt selfies in recent months so the natural next step was for us to develop a device to assist our users in taking one," On.com's CTO Kevin Deegan told Business Insider.
Indeed, an Orlando-area ISP says that its seen a "spike" in dial-up users although "it's still not a robust, growing segment of the Internet-service business".
An example of a content anomaly is an abnormal spike in user logins on a website, independent from external reasons.
Kevin Stephens, the chief executive of Kismet, another app I mentioned in the piece, said the company had seen "a huge spike in user growth and usage over the past few days".
