Velocity Alert: Distracted by Facebook, Woman Falls Off Pier

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THIS STORY IS ABOUT TO GO VIRAL

Distracted by Facebook, Woman Falls Off Pier A Taiwanese woman fell from a pier and plunged into the sea, while she was checking Facebook on her phone. The woman, who hasn't been named, was walking on a pier in Melbourne, Australia, Monday night, when she she took one step too many and fell in the water. Distracted by Facebook, she didn't realize the pier was coming to an end, according to local police. 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 California Corporation. P.O. Box 64 New York, NY, 10159-0064

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