Virality Quotes

Founders always say, 'I'm going to 'make my thing go viral' - that doesn't mean just adding a share button.

There might be people who have never even tweeted before who are just working on their great American tweet. It will be so good that we'll all have to stop Twitter right away. I would like to write the great American tweet. I don't think the great American tweet has been written yet. We'd know.

You're only one video away from going viral and changing your life.

If I die and I gotta couple Grammys on me, more than a couple hits on me, I got some plaques and I got billboards still up and I done touched a lot of people's souls and I'm viral, once that happen then you can judge all you want.

That's the wonder of the internet. It's the power of numbers: get enough people to retweet something, someone might see it.

I actually don't mind viral trends. I think most of them are inexplicably really funny.

With Ghost, I never really foresaw that it was going to take off the way it did.

The complexity of social media is akin to biology. It is not a coincidence that we speak of things going viral. Figuring out what is going on with these new platforms, what is harmful, what is beneficial, is as challenging as determining what is best for our health.

We just make stuff that we think is funny and fun, and I think that's the most you can do. I think if you're chasing virality, it just feels desperate.

Social media's greatest assets - anonymity, 'virality,' interconnectedness - are also its main weaknesses.

Virality, at its core, is asking someone to spend their social capital recommending or linking or posting about you for free.

Virality is not an accident. It is engineered. And that's why growth hackers beat traditional marketers.

I would have never guessed I have, like, senators reposting me.