Posts by Rachel Thomson

My Viral Pinterest Pin

Posted by Rachel Thomson on Jul 28, 2014 in Rachel's Blog

I pinned this pin a few weeks ago, and it went viral…. Let me start by saying it is not mine, it was created by FunkyTime. Funkytime can be found on a variety of social media including the following https://www.facebook.com/Funkytime2010/ https://twitter.com/FunkyTime http://www.pinterest.com/funkytime/ https://plus.google.com/u/0/115151708153484292646/about This pin had no source when I found it, and as you might realize, this pin has not always been pointed at this page…. For the first 200 re-pins it was not pointed at anything, as the person I re-pinned from only uploaded it to Pinterest. At that point, I pointed the pin towards a similar pin, and left it there for approximately 150 pins. I thought for sure the virility of the whole thing was done, but I went ahead and pointed it to my author page. Assuming it would stop I left the pin pointed there for another 1700 pins or so…. It is almost at 2000 re-pins, and I felt it really should point to it’s own page. I’m sure at this point a month later it will probably stop being re-pinned, but by chance that it doesn’t here it is…. I will probably never know why it went so viral, I guess it just speaks to people… My Viral Pin    Forget all the reasons why it wont work and believe in the one reason why it...