Velocity Alert: UK asks for boat name, Internet overwhelmingly responds: Boaty McBoatface

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THIS STORY IS ABOUT TO GO VIRAL

UK asks for boat name, Internet overwhelmingly responds: Boaty McBoatface There's few rules on the Internet, but I think we can all agree on this one: Never put things to a public online vote. 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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