flash mob

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flash mob

Perhaps from flash crowd, a term coined by Larry Niven in Flash Crowd (1973), a story about cheap teleportation in the future.

flash mob (plural flash mobs)

A group of people who rapidly assemble, perform an unusual and seemingly pointless act, and then quickly disperse. [from 2003]
- 2003 August 4, Otto Pohl, “Berlin Journal; What: Mob Scene. Who: Strangers. Point: None.”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:
  Called into being on short notice by Web sites and e-mail distribution lists, flash mobs meet at an appointed time, engage in some organized spontaneity for a few minutes, then rapidly disperse. The activities are innocent, if mysterious, and tend to bring together loose groupings of surprisingly conventional looking young adults.

group converging and dispersing quickly