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Exponential popularity - Solved!

piLpiL Registered User regular
edited January 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
I'm looking for the phrase to describe the phenomena where the popularity of something affects the things ability to become popular, and so it mimics an exponential increase. What I mean is when a product's popularity causes it to become used by more, and those more add to the products popularity, making it even more popular.

I thought it was called the 'power effect' but google and wikipedia don't seem to agree.

Thanks

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  • CarlCarl Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Try 'Tipping Point'

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  • piLpiL Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Not quite what I was looking for, but the article on that led me to 'positive feedback' and this is certainly a positive feedback loop applied to poularity. I guess this is solved unless there's better terminology.

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  • RFXRFX Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    The term would be either network effect or network externality.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect

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  • piLpiL Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    RFX wrote:
    The term would be either network effect or network externality.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect

    Woo, that would be a better terminology than what I had found. Plenty of thanks!

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