24 Types of Viral Business Tweets

Written by Ricky Nave in Media & Content Businesses

Want to make viral tweets for a business audience? Here are 24 patterns you can use.

1. Point out a common, obvious mistake

Strip Mall Guy currently has 214.7k followers, and this tweet from a year ago has 1.5 million views.

Gas Biz Guy (just under 40k followers) made this tweet (228k views):

2. Play on people’s fear of “you will own nothing & be happy about it”

Ellie Frost (44.7k followers) posted this tweet (30k likes) over a year ago:

Then, Trung posted a slightly modified version of the tweet several months later, and it also went viral (he currently has 689k followers, and the tweet had 2.3 million impressions):

3. Talk about a current or upcoming financial or business crisis

David Sacks currently has just under 785k followers, and this tweet got 2.9 million impressions:

Carried No Interest (14.5k followers) made this post on a pending decline in the financial industry (49k views):

And another post from a day earlier got 98k views:

4. Talk about boomers building wealth at the expense of younger generations

LaVonne Idlette (19.2k followers) made this tweet (59k likes):

5. Preach that you can have a 9-5 and also invest or have a side hustle

Porsha (less than 10k followers) posted this tweet (23k likes):

6. Make fun of real estate agents

Emily June has 53k followers, but this tweet from 6 months ago has 2.5 million views:

Prozac Princess only has 3,377 followers, but her tweet from 1.5 years ago has 107k likes:

7. Admit to not being self-made (genuinely or as a joke)

Nick Huber currently has under 350k followers, and this tweet from over a year ago has 855k views:

Here are more examples:

8. Talk about tax loopholes

Ankur Nagpal has 79k followers, but this tweet from over 6 months ago has 1.7 million views:

9. Talk about going back to the office being unjustified

Emily Freeman has 83.3k followers, but this tweet from 2.5 years ago has 66k likes:

San Viva has fewer than 2500 followers, but this tweet from almost 2 years ago has 88k likes:

10. Talk about tattoos not holding you back in business

Carrie has 24.5k followers, but this tweet from 1.5 years ago has 37k likes:

11. Talk about building, investing in, or making money from taboo businesses

Shaan Puri (391.6k followers) posted this tweet (829k views):

Several months earlier, he also posted this (3.5 million views):

Gas Biz Guy (under 40k followers) made this tweet (105k views):

12. Talk about replacing Americans with foreign workers or AI

Marshall Haas has fewer than 35k followers, but his post about a dentist hiring a Philippino receptionist got 3.5 million views:

Nick Huber also had a viral post with 1.5 million views:

13. Offer a business opportunity (job, exclusive networking opportunity, etc)

Another of his tweets implicitly offers an opportunity to join an MFM poker event:

Additionally, one of the taboo tweets we looked at earlier is also offering an opportunity:

14. Tell people they don’t need to be smart to get rich

Nick Huber (347.9k followers) got 954k views for his thread explaining this stance:

15. Give a list of signs that someone is a winner

Everyone wants to know whether they fit a definition of a winner. This will work especially well if the definition is attainable:

We already saw another example as well:

16. If you’re perceived as an expert, give a list of tips & recommendations

Shaan (391.6k followers) posted this tweet (1.1 million views):

17. Say what people normally don’t admit

Shaan Puri said he got greedy.

He also said he wanted to copy someone else’s website.

And he admitted to hiring a family chef (which is a braggodocious statement that most people wouldn’t talk about):

Nick Huber said it’s a worthwhile investment for rich people to spend money on private jets (this also has the secondary benefit of being environmentally controversial):

18. Describe a relatable frustration

Here’s another example of a frustrating situation that is used to give business advice:

19. Ruffle feathers by calling an entire industry or a common business practice a scam

Nick Huber got 1.4 million views by calling vehicle safety ratings a scam.

20. State controversial beliefs or predictions

21. I’m an {impressive person} who looked at {tons of data} and found {THIS}

Carried No Interest (14.5k followers) got 125k views on his tweet following this pattern:

22. Reveal under the hood of a business (or point out a weird business that shouldn’t exist)

Gas Biz Guy made another viral tweet about why a business failed:

Strip Mall guy (just under 215k followers) posted a tweet (4.5 million views) about a business that seemingly shouldn’t exist:

He also posted another viral tweet looking under the hood of a failing business:

23. I just bought/sold a company

24. Humble brag about interacting with rich people

Aleksey (20k followers) posted a tweet about sitting next to a rich person on a plane, and it got 1 million views:

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Ricky Nave

In college, Ricky studied physics & math, won a prestigious research competition hosted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, started several small businesses including an energy chewing gum business and a computer repair business, and graduated with a thesis in algebraic topology. After graduating, Ricky attended grad school at Duke University in the mathematics PhD program where he worked on quantum algorithms & non-Euclidean geometry models for flexible proteins. He also worked in cybersecurity at Los Alamos during this time before eventually dropping out of grad school to join a startup working on formal semantic modeling for legal documents. Finally, he left that startup to start his own in the finance & crypto space. Now, he helps entrepreneurs pay less capital gains tax.

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