Velocity Alert: Fighting Turkey's Twitter Ban With DNS Graffiti

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Fighting Turkey's Twitter Ban With DNS Graffiti When Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said he wold eradicate Twitter, he wasn't joking. The Prime Minister's office issued a statement on Thursday stating that Turkish officials had "no option" other than to ban the service, which had been used to release damaging information about him. 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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