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While millions are tuning in to this year’s Winter Olympics to watch world-class athletes compete, there is another draw to watch Sochi: schadenfreude. Horror stories from the Russian city -- from the culling of stray dogs to hotel rooms still under construction when reporters checked in -- have flooded the internet since the Olympics began. The Twitter feed @SochiProblems, which has been highlighting journalists’ tweets complaining about Sochi, has 100k more followers than the official @Sochi2014 Twitter account. Many of the tweets highlighting dysfunctional toilets and concerning signage are darkly humorous, but is the viral nature of Sochi-hate overshadowing the Games themselves? This week on the Mediatwits, we’re joined by special guest BuzzFeed senior editor Samir Mezrahi, as well as regulars Andrew Lih of American University and social media guru Sarah Evans, to discuss the way social media has blanketed the Olympics. We also have Quartz senior editor Zach Seward drop in to chat about Thursday morning's news of a merger between Time Warner Cable and Comcast. As usual, PBS MediaShift’s Mark Glaser will host.