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why-did-that-one-take-off

Take apart a post that did unusually well and separate what is repeatable from what was timing and luck. Use when someone asks why a post worked, wants to repeat a hit, is studying a creator's best post, or has one outlier in an otherwise flat month. Do not credit the writing for everything, do not turn a single post into a rule, and do not state a cause you cannot support.

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# Why did that one take off?

An outlier is the most misleading thing an account produces. The temptation is
to copy the visible part, which is the words, and the words are often the part
that had least to do with it.

The job here is not to explain the post. It is to work out which parts of it
you could do again on purpose.

## Step 1: check it is actually an outlier

Compare it against that account's own median, in rate rather than raw count. A
post with more impressions than usual on an account that grew that month may
not have outperformed anything.