Usually means: Sudden surge in network traffic.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (flash crowd)

noun:  A large audience for a sporting event that is unexpected because of large numbers of game-day ticket sales rather than advance tickets.
noun:  A crowd that forms suddenly.
noun:  (obsolete) The fashionable public.
noun:  Alternative form of flashcrowd [The large number of people brought by the sudden increase in popularity of an Internet site or resource due to an event or link from another site.]
noun:  Alternative form of flash mob [A group of people who rapidly assemble, perform an unusual and seemingly pointless act, and then quickly disperse.]

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