Mashable

“Mashable wrote, wrote a story saying that we had just launched, and our growth went from 10 users a day to a hundred users a day.”

“So we crawl a, on the order of about a million pieces of content daily.”

“And then do this replicated over tens of thousands of URLs daily so that we can get an aggregation of which are the better performers.”

“We are able over within about five minutes to get about 75% accurate with Our predictions for overall sharing behavior with increasing accuracy over time.”

“And these results actually compare favorably with the results found by folks at Facebook, for example, who actually have all of the granular information that we don't have about the actual graph structure on which these cascades happen.”

“We are looking to expand our ability to model this complicated problem out using information from something we call Knowledge Graph, where we collect very, very granular information about sharing behavior on just our content.”

“The entire structure of this Of this app Velocity was built in-house. I mean, really we built it from the ground up. I had the great pleasure of working with exceedingly talented people in, in particular, our chief chief architect built this from the ground up…”

“Because we obviously have an interest in, and have actually licensed this license velocity out, we haven't used any pre-existing models for predictions.”

“And we actually find that the top end of our content, those stories that are viewed very widely and shared very, very widely, the overwhelming majority of those are sourced from Velocity by our editorial staff.”