Velocity Alert: The Will Ferrell vs. Chad Smith Drum Battle Is On

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THIS STORY IS ABOUT TO GO VIRAL

The Will Ferrell vs. Chad Smith Drum Battle Is On Two celebrity doppelgängers have waged an-all out drum war against each other -- and in the process, raised more than $300,000 for charity. The path to this grand battle of similar-looking famous people began when Will Ferrell acknowledged in his Reddit AMA on Feb. 4 that he bore a striking resemblance to Red Hot Chili Peppers' drummer Chad Smith. 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. Read more at Mashable.com ▶ Mashable, Inc. is a Delaware Corporation. P.O. Box 64 New York, NY, 10159-0064

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