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what term refers to an unintended audience that came across someones work on accident

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Common terms:

- "unintended audience" — plain and widely understood.
- "incidental audience" — more formal; used in communication studies to mean people who encounter the work by chance.
- "accidental audience" — informal, emphasizes it was found by accident.
- Other possibilities depending on context: "unintended recipient," "secondary audience," "collateral audience," "bystander viewer."

Example: "My post reached an incidental audience of people outside my usual followers."