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by Alex3917 5611 days ago
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.
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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.