Sunday, February 9, 2014

Velocity Alert: Walter White's Facebook 'Look Back' Video Is the Only One Worth Watching

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THIS STORY IS ABOUT TO GO VIRAL

Walter White's Facebook 'Look Back' Video Is the Only One Worth Watching

By now, you've been accosted by enough of your Facebook friends "look back" videos to realize that you do not ever want to look back at your life via social media. It's basically a timeline of bad choices, bad statuses and bad haircuts rolled into a one-minute shareable video (thanks, Facebook) -- that is, unless you're Walter White.

How does Mashable know what's going viral?
Mashable built a system called Velocity, which scours the social web, collecting lots and lots of data around how people are engaging with published articles. It then pulls all of that data back to Mashable, dumps it into our own predictive engine, and predicts which articles are about to go viral.

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