Detecting Viral Content

Overview

Common Room enables you to monitor and alert on activities that have gone "viral" in your community. We currently support detecting viral content across Reddit posts and Dev.to articles. You can filter for activities that have gone viral and also set up team alerts and workflows to fire when viral content is detected.

Defining What "Viral" Means

An activity becomes "viral" when it meets engagement criteria that you will work with our team to define. For Reddit, engagement is the number of comments on a post. For Dev.to, this is the number of views on an article. When we detect that an activity meets the engagement criteria, it will be automatically tagged with a Viral content activity tag. Engagement criteria can be as simple or as complex as you need. For example, you could set the criteria to be "Reddit posts that have 10 replies in the first day, 50 posts in the first week, or 100 posts in the first month".

Monitoring for Viral Content

Given that viral content is tagged with the Viral content tag, you can easily filter to these activities using our Activity tag filters in our universal filters.

Triggering a Team Alert

1. Go to the Team alerts tab and click the Create team alert button
2. Select the When a tag is added to an activity trigger
3. In the tag selection drop down, select Viral content
4. Set up the rest of the team alert and start getting alerted when new activity goes viral!

Triggering a Webhook

1. Go to the Workflows tab and click the Create a workflow button
2. Select the Create from scratch workflow
3. Select the When an activity is tagged trigger
4. In the tag selection drop-down, select Viral content
5. Set up the rest of the workflow and add an action to Send details to webhook as the final step
6. Enable the workflow to start receiving webhooks when the activity goes viral!