viral posts
Widely shared updates
Viral posts are social media content that spreads rapidly through sharing, reaching audiences far beyond the original poster's network.
The metaphor borrows from how viruses replicate and spread from host to host.
A post goes viral when it resonates widely enough that people feel compelled to pass it along: Her video of the cat went viral overnight.
The threshold for "viral" is loose—sometimes thousands of shares, sometimes millions.
- trendingCurrently gaining widespread attention
- memesSelf-propagating cultural units
- social mediaOnline content-sharing platforms
- sharesUnits of company ownership
- share buttonInterface element for redistribution
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- digital culturesocial media, memes, hashtags, influencers, trolling
- social mediainfluencer status, followers, tweet, likes, follow
- Instagramselfie, feed, followers, hashtag, hashtags
- publicitypublicity, PR, press conference, publicist, press release
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Non-public digital communications
direct messages · encrypted messages · private correspondence · personal journals
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