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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a surge of users" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a sudden increase in the number of users, often in the context of technology, websites, or applications.
Example: "After the new feature was launched, there was a surge of users signing up for the service."
Alternatives: "an influx of users" or "a spike in users."
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But Facebook's clarification may have come too late, with a surge of users taking to Twitter to announce that they were deleting Moves following the announcement.
The same contractors, testifying before the same committee on Sept. 10, assured lawmakers that they were ready to handle a surge of users when the federal exchange opened on Oct. 1.
The prime contractor for the federal exchange — CGI Federal, a unit of the CGI Group, based in Montreal — and the company operating a "data services hub" for the government — Quality Software Services Inc., a unit of the UnitedHealth Group — told Congress at a hearing on Sept. 10 that they were ready for a surge of users when enrollment opened on Oct. 1.
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Twitter stock actually popped this morning following a surge of user activity during the election of Donald Trump, though as I write this, it's down 3percentt in after-hours trading.
By hitting thousands of people in a short period, Loot Crate breeds "a surge" of user-generated content around a title, Arevalo said.
The service saw a surge of new users after the Megaupload shutdown in early 2012 and even had to limit download speeds to cope with demand for a while.
As another source of confirmation of sorts, the Head of PR & Comms for Opera & Asia posted on Twitter that their company saw a surge of VPN users from Vietnam, and suspected a Facebook block was to blame.
Revelations about how the NSA tracks users online, the growth of malicious hacking and a general move towards people wanting more privacy in their online interactions have all contributed to a surge of apps that offer users ways to control how the content they create is used online.
Threadflip, the online and mobile marketplace that helps users clean out their closets, or buy from those who are doing just that, is today introducing a completely revamped mobile experience for its iOS application following a surge of growth from its mobile user base.
With the surge of users in December 2010, Quora, on its own and with its strong engineering and design team, could have justified a much, much higher valuation given the current climate.
As you can see in the chart above, Nielsen's figures — which are global — show that despite the surge of users on services like Facebook and Twitter, and the number of people who get all of their content (whether it be news, video or social) online, Internet display ads are still not getting much of a look in.
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