social shares

Online content forwards

Social shares are instances of content being distributed through social media platforms—when users click share buttons to post articles, images, or videos to their networks.

The term appears frequently in digital marketing contexts, where social shares serve as a metric of content performance and viral potential: The article got thousands of social shares in the first hour.

High share counts suggest content resonates enough that people want to associate themselves with it publicly.

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Categories
Opposites
content distribution mode

social sharesoriginal content

Freshly created material

OC · user-generated content · native content

engagement type

social sharescomments

Spoken or written reactions

replies · lurking · direct messages · private viewing · private messages

Family

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Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Rated G