Watch this! Microsoft Research develops tool to identify and visualize viral content (video)

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Microsoft’s Research team has been working hard lately and they have put up a new video showcasing ViralSearch, a new tool that helps identify and visualize viral content. “What does it mean for online content to “go viral”? An analysis of almost a billion information cascades on Twitter news, videos, and photos has produced the first quantitative notion of whether something has indeed gone viral, thereby enabling further research into topic experts, trending topics, and viral-incident metrics,” the video description reads. Check it out!