techcrunched

When your web, e-commerce, or Software As A Service (SaaS) site collapses under the load of all the new visitors that come to it because your company and/or URL appeared in a TechCrunch.com article that claims how great your company and/or service is. Success or failure comes suddenly based on your ability to scale from a handful of servers to thousands in a matter of a few hours.

An internet & tech blog which used to be relevant to something, but no longer is. Rather than giving up, they now just post whatever they want without worrying whether or not it's actually true.