Generating great ideas for engaging social media reels, posts, and captions can sometimes feel overwhelming, never mind the added hassle of keeping up with the constantly changing algorithms of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, and the like.
So, that’s why it would be a great idea to get help where you can, and this is where ChatGPT comes in. If you haven’t used it yet, ChatGPT is the natural language artificial intelligence model that gives human-like responses to your prompts and has fans the world over.
Its prominence in the news of late means that it warrants your attention. That’s why in this blog post, we’re going to show you how to use ChatGPT prompts for social media, so you can up your online influencing game.
ChatGPT Prompts For Social Media
Besides keeping in touch with friends and family, the main point of using social media is to engage other users. This helps to increase your audience. But keeping their attention isn’t always easy, especially when you’re competing with billions of users worldwide (and soon-to-be millions of AI bots, too!).
But before we get to social media content generation with ChatGPT, we have a question for you.
When was the last time you changed your social media profiles, and do they reflect the real you?
Your social media profile basically acts like an online business card. It lets your first-time visitors know who you are, and what you’re all about.
And your profile needs to be appealing enough to engage people to follow, like, and comment on your posts more.
Of course, telling your life and career story in two or three sentences isn’t always easy, especially when you want to show off your personality. So, why not get ChatGPT to help you create a perfect bio that you can use across all of your social media profiles? It will make you stand out more, which will make it easier for people to find you across the platforms you use.
Why not get ChatGPT to help you create a perfect bio that you can use across all of your social media profiles? It will make you stand out more, which will make it easier for people to find you across the platforms you use.
Get A Quote
So, now onto prompting ChatGPT for your social media content. We love posting inspirational quotes on our Instagram, so that’s what we decided to have ChatGPT help us with. Inspirational or informative quotes that inspire us also help to inspire our audience, so we love sharing wisdom with them in our social media posts.
That’s why in our example, we asked ChatGPT to provide us with 10 inspirational quotes from one of our favorite authors, Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Generate 10 inspirational Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes that I can use for my Instagram posts.
We also love sunflowers, so prompted the AI chatbot to give us 10 quotes about our favorite flower:
Generate 10 inspirational quotes about sunflowers that I can use for my Instagram posts.
Of course, you don’t have to post inspirational quotes. Ask ChatGPT to generate content that suits you, as well as the needs and wants of your audience. Maybe it’s technical stuff, maybe it’s fun slogans, whatever.
The following is a list of prompts that we thought of. You can use these, as well as create your own, to get ChatGPT to assist you with writing your social media content:
- Write a Facebook post on [your subject] to encourage my friends and followers to join my new Telegram channel.
- Generate engaging text for an Instagram reel that shows me working out at the gym when I didn’t want to go.
- Create a quiz about [your subject].
- Create a catchy title for my quiz that will engage my followers.
- Generate a funny Tweet about [your subject].
- Give me a list of Instagram hashtags around the topic of vegan living [or your subject].
- Create 10 new Instagram hashtags around the topic of vegan living [or your subject].
- List 10 conversation starters to use on people who are struggling with anxiety [or your subject].
- Write a viral LinkedIn post about why you like working from home [or your subject].
- Draft a TikTok reel script that tells the story of my [your subject].
- Give me a list of 20 Instagram story ideas around the topic of [your subject].
- Create promo text for my upcoming Instagram livestream on [your subject].
- Write a DM script to introduce myself to influencers on Instagram
- Write a DM script to introduce myself to potential colleagues or collaborators on LinkedIn
Know Your Limits
Depending on the social media platform, they have specific limits when it comes to the number of words that you can use in your posts. Most Twitter users, for example, are limited to getting their point across in just 280 characters or less.
These days, it’s also important to consider sticking to shorter content that will make your audience stop and read your posts. Most people just don’t have the attention span needed to read posts that will take them longer than 30 seconds, so when they see a lot of text, they’ll just keep scrolling.
These days, it’s also important to consider sticking to shorter content that will make your audience stop and read your posts. Most people just don’t have the attention span needed to read posts that will take them longer than 30 seconds, so when they see a lot of text, they’ll just keep scrolling.
In fact, it has been reported that Gen Z social media users, on average, will look at a post for only 1.3 seconds. So, the more bite-sized your post is, the better chance you’ll have that more eyes will see it.
Therefore, you should ensure that you let ChatGPT know in your prompt that you’re posting to a certain platform. You can also give it a set word length when you get the AI chatbot to generate your copy for you.
Tone Woke
If you give the AI chatbot examples of the style and tone of content that you want it to create, then training the AI in this way will allow it to generate better responses to your prompts.
For instance, you should decide on whether you want your post to be serious, lighthearted, or even funny in tone, and you can also ask ChatGPT to take on the role of a famous person you admire and model the responses it gives you on their voice.
This is especially important when it comes to the tone of the content that you choose to post on various platforms. That’s because the content that you post on Facebook probably won’t engage your LinkedIn audience, for example.
Of course, you can use the same prompt, and get ChatGPT to generate different responses that align with the tone of each platform that you use and the followers you have.
So, for example, we wanted to ChatGPT to create an engaging post related to the quote we chose from its output about our favorite flower:
You can also get ChatGPT to reuse any old content that you’ve posted, and then craft more updated alternatives. So, if you had good engagement on a previous post, you can simply copy and paste the text into ChatGPT, and prompt it to paraphrase a new post for you. Come up with some image ideas in Midjourney, and you can probably make the whole post with AI!
And don’t forget that you have to proofread any of ChatGPT’s generated text before you post it. Even though ChatGPT is an amazing new technology, it doesn’t always get it right, as far as tone and style of the output are concerned.
On top of that, the AI chatbot is still known to hallucinate (less so on GPT4, but it still happens), which means that it generates text that doesn’t make any real sense, even if it’s written beautifully and there are no grammatical errors. So, always check before you post something that could cause embarrassment.
The AI chatbot is still known to hallucinate, which means that it generates text that doesn’t make any real sense, even if it’s written beautifully and there are no grammatical errors. So, always check before you post something that could cause embarrassment.
But even with adding a bit of time to review ChatGPT’s output before you post, you’ll still be saving yourself oodles of time and effort. That’s because you won’t be creating social media posts from scratch, and the AI chatbot can produce output after being prompted by you within minutes.
Plus, if you don’t like what ChatGPT has generated for you in the first instance, you can keep playing around with responding to its output, or asking it to explore alternative ways of saying the same thing until you get it to give you content that you’ll be happy with.
Keeping It Social
There is also an art to timing your posts to create the most impact, as well as reacting to your comments in a timely fashion. And you can get ChatGPT to help you with these as well.
You can get the AI chatbot to generate a content calendar for you, which you can follow to take the unnecessary worry out of trying to get it right. And if you’ve got a comment that you’re trying to find the right way to respond to, prompt ChatGPT with the comment to get a polite answer that probably won’t offend and cause an online rant.
ChatGPT is helping millions of people all over the world with their writing tasks, whether it be for reports, emails, articles, scripts, and even books. And that’s because the constantly upgrading AI chatbot can help you to create engaging copy in only minutes.
By taking the burden of generating social media content ideas off your shoulders and giving that job to ChatGPT, it will leave you more time to spot new trends and interests that you can base your posts on.
So, why not use ChatGPT prompts for social media? If you do, then you can be ensured that your social media posts will have more of a potential to stand out from the crowd.
