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Previous works mainly focus on predicting the possible popularity of content rather than the timing of reaching such popularity. This work proposes a novel yet practical iterative algorithm to predict virality timing, in which the correlation between the timing and growth of content popularity is captured by using its own big data naturally generated from users\u2019 sharing. Such data is not only able to correlate the dynamics and associated timings in social cascades of viral content but also can be useful to self-correct the predicted timing against the actual timing of the virality in each iterative prediction. The proposed prediction algorithm is verified by datasets from two popular social networks\u2014Twitter and Digg\u2014as well as two synthesized datasets with extreme network densities and infection rates. 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