Velocity Alert: Real-Life Joffrey Smiles About 'Game of Thrones' Purple Wedding

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Real-Life Joffrey Smiles About 'Game of Thrones' Purple Wedding Warning: Game of Thrones spoilers ahead. Looks like even Jack Gleeson -- the actor who played Joffrey Baratheon on Game of Thrones -- is happy his character died. The terrible boy-king kicked the bucket on Sunday's episode, poisoned by pie and/or wine, but fans (and most of the other characters) weren't the least bit concerned. 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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