Velocity Alert: Russia Pokes Fun at Olympic Ring Malfunction in Closing Ceremony

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Russia Pokes Fun at Olympic Ring Malfunction in Closing Ceremony Don't say the Russians can't laugh at themselves. During the opening minutes of the closing ceremony, performers poked fun at the infamous opening ceremony Olympic ring malfunction. The moment became a touchstone of #sochiproblems, but it seems Russia had the last laugh at the 2014 Olympic Games. 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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