Sentence examples for spikes in usage from inspiring English sources
"There will be massive spikes in usage that no network in the world can handle".
It can also send alerts and texts if there are spikes in usage.
According to him, the service saw similar spikes in usage when Venezuela (another country that has been wracked by protests), Egypt, and Iran cut off access to social media sites.
From each, we saw spikes in downloads of our app and spikes in usage.
Other wireless carriers also said their networks can become overloaded by sudden spikes in usage during emergencies.
They also tracked "memes"—keywords or Web links that suddenly saw a big spike in usage.
The spike in usage, it said, is "in the context of the EU referendum in the United Kingdom and the presidential election in the United States".
A spike in usage was apparent in March May 2013, which may be due in part to the market crash around that time.
Search for the term in Google's ngrams feature, which charts the frequencies of words and phrases in printed sources from 1800 onwards and you can see an Everest-like spike in usage, which reached a high point in 1920.
The evidence so far is that Bing saw an early spike in usage, driven by tech-savvy users giving it a try, only to sink back a few days later as old habits returned.
Parker Emmott, the co-founder of Waddle, a private group photo-sharing service, said the company had not updated or marketed its service since early August but noticed an unexpected spike in usage this week.
