Word Pictures As a Headline Strategy

There’s one thing I have found to be powerfully true about social media sites like:

• Digg

• Reddit

• Sphinn

• etc

And that is:

Word pictures work best for social media – in other words, longer titles and headlines seem to work best.

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12 Things Social Media Sites Like

Or should I have said 10 things readers of social media buzz sites seem to like and home in on the most…  Read more... (111 words, estimated 27 secs reading time)

• Outrageous posts – or at least nutty sounding post titles and headlines

• New technology

• New news

• Movies

• String Controversial Politics

• Widgets

• Videos

• Pictures

• Audacious jibber jabber

• How to

• Tips

• Top 10, 11, 12 lists like this one