The Most Facebook-Shareable Words

May 5th 2010 View Comments

It’s another Facebook sharing data post.

I analyzed the words that occurred most often in titles in my dataset and their effect on Facebook sharing and found a set of “highly shareable” words.

What I found was that list-based superlatives like “best” and “most” work pretty well on Facebook and that contain that explains something “why” and “how” also does.

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http://spotlightportfolios.com/ Allen – Personalbrander

I would say it is the nature from a common user to a social media expert to use such words! Even in SEO, you can find out the many superlatives as it always deals with the best of its kind!
http://twitter.com/BEHRINGER Imagine Music

Thanks for the post, found it via SmartBrief on Social Media… Any data to show a difference between links shared with a snippet (video still, etc) and those without, as a subset of these terms?
I ask because I wonder if some “sharable words” are more likely to be adjacent an eyecatching video still/photo and thus prompt sharing. I also wonder how often posts are shared that are mainly text. I can see this as a factor in the “least sharable words” as well.
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http://johnhaydon.com John Haydon

Dan – I'd be curious about the prevalence of questions. I notice that “How” and “Why” rank high, but are these questions or statements? I have this theory that questions beg answers, which means they beg to be clicked.
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Incredible to see Apple among all these generic words
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There is so much difference between FB and Twitter keyword trendz
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socialstacy

This is really interesting data , Why is 'why' and 'how' on this list though, very intriguing…
http://twitter.com/OmarBriones Omar Briones

Very interesting…. I wonder why that is… Hmmm… What is your hypothesis doc?
http://twitter.com/codygibbs Cody Gibbs

“First, how and why do facebook, apple, and obama, top most of the world's big media and health videos?” says you.
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