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		Alex3917 on Feb 2, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: If I were starting out now (in startup land), I wo... The key to something going viral is its novelty. If something has already been done before then it's almost guaranteed not to go viral.

epi0Bauqu on Feb 2, 2011 [–]

You're missing the key of threewords.me. It went viral in a small subset of users on FB/Twitter. It could just spread similarly in many other areas of FB/Twitter, you just have to seed it appropriately.

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