send storm

A deluge of private chat messages while one is trying to do something else online. "Sorry, I'm currently the victim of a send storm. I'll be with you in a moment." On AOL, this is called "being IMed to death" (see instant messaging).
See also : tennis e-mail
NetLingo Classification: Online Jargon
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