60 Best ChatGPT Prompts for Social Media

Considering the fast-paced nature of social media and its need for content plus the schedule of the average content specialist, it’s understandable if you need more efficient ways to engage your users via social channels.

In this article, we’ll give you the best ChatGPT prompts for creating social media content and succeeding at it.

ChatGPT Prompts to Generate Ideas for Social Media Content

The very first stage of creating content for practically every social media channel is building a strategy that’s rich with ideas. 

In this section, we’ll list out the top prompts you can use to generate those ideas for social media content.

1. Develop a plan for a social media campaign centered around an upcoming holiday, including themed posts, special offers, and interactive content.
2. Suggest a series of posts for Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn related to our products/services, which include [INSERT PRODUCTS AND SERVICES].
3. Compile a list of the top five trending topics in [INDUSTRY/NICHE] this month and suggest social media content ideas that can be generated for [INSERT YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS – INSTAGRAM, TWITTER, ETC.] around those trending topics.
4. In the coming week, we’ll be [INSERT AND DESCRIBE UPCOMING EVENT YOU’LL BE ATTENDING, HOSTING, ORGANIZING, FACILITATING, ETC]. Generate ideas for social media posts that highlight this upcoming event, focusing on engaging visuals and key speaker highlights for Instagram and Facebook.
5. Come up with ideas for behind-the-scenes content that we can use for showcasing our company culture, improving customer trust and company relatability, among other things.
6. [COMPANY] is a [COMPANY FUNCTION] that targets [AUDIENCE] on [SOCIAL CHANNELS – INSTAGRAM, LINKEDIN, TIKTOK, ETC]. We’re looking to get more consistent with our social media posts. Come up with seven content pillars that we can use for each of our social media channels.
7. We recently launched [PRODUCT] and we’re looking to generate some engagement for it across our social pages. Propose new ways we can feature our new product on [SOCIAL CHANNELS].
8. I am working on [INSERT CAMPAIGN AND DETAILED EXPLANATION] for [AUDIENCE] on [SOCIAL CHANNELS]. Give me some inspiration for content that’ll resonate with my audience.
9. I run a [INSERT INFORMATION ABOUT COMPANY/PAGE] and my primary target audience consists of [THOROUGHLY DESCRIBE TARGET AUDIENCE]. Come up with five different types of social media content that my audience would really like.
10. Generate content ideas for every holiday in the United States for the rest of the year.

ChatGPT Prompts to Generate Captions for Social Media Posts

Coming up with social media posts and designing/editing them is a hard enough task on its own. 

Writing captions for them after going through the entire ideation process can feel impossible sometimes. 

Here are a few prompts to help get the creative juices flowing in that regard:

1. We’ve recently launched a new product and we’re making a post about it. [DESCRIBE SAID PRODUCT IN DETAIL]. Come up with a caption that makes the audience psyched to try it out. Be sure to create a sense of urgency as to the availability of the product but do not come off too strong.
2. We’re releasing a poll to gauge our audience’s opinion on [TOPIC]. Come up with a short but actionable caption to encourage the audience to take the survey.
3. I’m going to upload a photo on Instagram [DESCRIBE THE IMAGE IN DETAIL]. Come up with a caption that relates to the photo, ends with a question and encourages the reader to leave a comment of their opinion on the photo or the subject discussed in the caption.
4. We’re running a UGC campaign and have gotten multiple entries. We’ll be posting several of the entries as a carousel. Craft a caption thanking the contributors [INSERT THEIR HANDLES] for their posts and encouraging other users to join in the fun before it ends on [INSERT DEADLINE].
5. We recently organized an event [DESCRIBE THE EVENT AND ITS KEY HIGHLIGHTS]. Write a caption that recaps the event, focusing on its highest moments, thanking guests for attending and reminding them to [INCLUDE CTA IF NECESSARY]. 
6. Create an engaging caption that poses a thought-provoking question to our followers about [TOPIC/POST], aimed at increasing comments and engagement.
7. Come up with [X NUMBER OF] wordplays surrounding [TOPIC]. Make them funny, witty and interesting enough to get a like out of the readers.
8. Generate a persuasive caption to get the audience to [DESCRIBE DESIRED ACTION]. Be sure to include a sense of urgency and excitement at the same time for maximum effect.
9. Create a caption that excitedly announces [EVENT OR CAMPAIGN] to our target audience and provides instructions on how to join [DESCRIBE THE JOINING/REGISTRATION PROCESS].
10. Generate a concise caption for a how-to video post that promises easy solutions or tips related to [PRODUCT/SERVICE].

ChatGPT Prompts for Holiday-Specific Social Media Posts

The point of each holiday is to kick back and relax, not spend the entire time worrying about what to post. 

Here are ten different ChatGPT prompts that are specific to some of the most popular holidays:

1. Generate content ideas for a Christmas social media campaign that includes a countdown, special offers, and festive greetings.
2. Write a spooky story for Halloween that can be shared on social media. Make it fun with short lines that can be designed into slides for easy consumption by the audience.
3. Create a Thanksgiving post that expresses our gratitude to our customers who have made it possible for our business to remain successful and capable of serving them.
4. Develop 30 different New Year’s resolution ideas that we can post on Twitter to help our audience grow and improve generally in the new year.
5. Generate a social media post that announces a Valentine’s Day UGC campaign. [INCLUDE DETAILS OF THE POST SUCH AS THE PRIZE FOR THE BEST-PERFORMING ENTRY, HOW TO ENTER THE UGC, CONTENT LENGTH, ETC.]
6. Create a heartwarming post for Mother’s Day. The key message is gratitude to mothers across the world for all the sacrifices they make and how they help raise kids. 
7. Create a Father’s Day post that consists of ten uncommon gifts that children can give their fathers for the special day. Keep it short, simple and shareable. Do NOT write an entire article.
8. Create a post for Cinco de Mayo that shows the audience how to create a traditional Mexican recipe to be enjoyed by the family on the occasion.
9. Suggest a series of posts for each night of Hanukkah, highlighting different aspects of the holiday with tips on celebration and product integrations.
10. Create a post that’s essentially ten unpopular facts about St. Patrick’s Day.

ChatGPT Prompts for Promotional Social Media Content

Creating promotional content on social media can be a little dicey. Do it wrong and you lose your audience, sometimes permanently. 

Here are ten different prompts to get the ball rolling in the right direction for you.

1. Our company is organizing [NAME AND DESCRIBE THE EVENT]. Write an invitation post for the event, detailing its value and exclusivity to encourage sign-ups.
2. We’ve recently restocked on [PRODUCT] and we want to get our buyers to make a purchase again. Write a restock alert post that sells the excitement, especially for those who have been waiting and making enquiries beforehand.
3. We recently hit [INSERT A CERTAIN MILESTONE – FINANCIAL, FOLLOWER COUNT-RELATED, ETC] and we’re celebrating it by offering a discount on [PRODUCT] for a limited time only [SPECIFY THE TIME]. Generate a post celebrating the milestone and announcing our promotional offer.
4. We’ve concluded the details of a collaboration between us and [CELEBRITY/INFLUENCER]. Create an exciting post to tease the audience about this collaboration and build anticipation ahead of time.
5. We’re organizing a giveaway for our audience [DESCRIBE THE DETAILS OF THE GIVEAWAY AND ANY NECESSARY REQUIREMENTS TO QUALIFY FOR IT]. Create a social media giveaway post, detailing the prizes, how to enter, and the rules to boost engagement and reach.
6. Generate a post encouraging our audience to join our referral program. Be sure to sell and emphasize the rewards that they stand to gain if they participate and keep the steps for joining very simple and easy to follow. 
7. Create an attention-grabbing post to announce a 24-hour flash sale. Be sure to include language that fosters a sense of urgency and encourages the audience to take immediate action. 
8. Our new product is about to launch. [DESCRIBE SAID PRODUCT IN DETAIL]. Create a series of posts to promote this product and get a buzz going among members of our audience. The goal is to have people begin pre-ordering ahead of the release date.
9. Create a post that showcases some of our strongest customer testimonials from previous users. Here are some testimonials for reference [INSERT TESTIMONIALS].
10. Create a thread for X explaining why our product [DESCRIBE PRODUCT] is essential for [TARGET AUDIENCE].

ChatGPT Prompts for Humorous/Meme Posts

As a business, there’s always the temptation to take yourself too seriously on social media simply because your page represents an entity, not a person. 

But the thing is you’re communicating with actual people and you have to relate with them how they prefer.

A key way to do that is through humor. So, here are the best ChatGPT prompts for generating humorous content on social media:

1. Write a fake announcement for a nonexistent product that’s about to be launched. Keep in mind that this is only for jokes and we’ll never actually launch whatever product you come up with. But the audience doesn’t need to know that. Make the announcement as absurd as possible so that the audience is humored and will not necessarily take it seriously.
2. Generate a post that essentially humanizes our product. Specifically, make it something along the lines of “if our product could talk,” putting our product in various scenarios and making it as humorous as possible. 
3. Generate a post featuring commonly misheard lyrics or quotes related to [NICHE]. To garner engagement, invite followers to share their own funny mishearings. 
4. Create a humorous FAQ post relating to [NICHE OR INDUSTRY] where we answer common customer questions with a playful twist.
5. Generate a light-hearted joke related to [NICHE OR INDUSTRY] that our followers would appreciate for its insider humor.
6. Suggest a few ideas for meme posts that tie our product into [TRENDY EVENT]. Note that our product does not need to have a direct relation to the event itself. The correlation can be loose. It simply has to be creative and funny for the audience’s engagement and entertainment.
7. Compose a series of outrageous and fictional reviews of our product, exaggerated for comedic effect.
8. Our product is [DESCRIBE PRODUCT IN DETAIL]. Having said that, come up with a list of different use cases for our product that are entirely different from what it is designed to do. Make the use cases as absurd and ridiculous as possible for humorous effect.
9. Come up with a meme post about [TWO CONTRASTING IDEAS THAT YOU CAN THINK OF].
10. Write a funny caption for this picture [PROVIDE AND/OR DESCRIBE IMAGE IN DETAIL].

ChatGPT Prompts for Driving Traffic to Your Website with Social Media

Many people start and end all their traffic acquisition efforts at search engine optimization. 

But, Google is simply one out of many content distribution channels and there are other ways to drive traffic to your website and your content. 

Here are ten different prompts that can help you do that through social media.

1. We’ve recently [INSERT RECENT CONTENT EFFORT – COMPREHENSIVE BLOG POST, CASE STUDY, RESEARCH PAPER, ETC] and we’re looking to get a lot more eyes on it by making it exclusive to people who provide their email address. Generate a teaser post for exclusive content available only on our website and encourage users to click through for access.
2. Write a post announcing a new product [DESCRIBE PRODUCT] with a link to the product page. In the post, be sure to highlight the main benefits and features of our product to generate interest and website visits.
3. Generate a post to promote an upcoming webinar, including a brief overview of what attendees will learn and a link to the registration page on our website.
4. We recently wrote a blog post on [TOPIC]. Create a captivating summary of our latest blog post, focusing on a key insight or tip that encourages followers to read the full article on our site. Here’s the blog post for reference – [INSERT BLOG POST].
5. Generate a post using this customer testimonial [INSERT TESTIMONIAL]. Make the post one that piques the reader’s interest and encourages them to read the full case study on our website.
6. Generate a series of countdown posts to [EVENT]. Each post should include a link to our landing page [PROVIDE LANDING PAGE] for the audience to get more information.
7. Generate an infographic or informative post based on the following facts [INSERT DATA GATHERED FROM RESEARCH] and then have the audience read more on our website.
8. We’re running a promotional offer on our website. Generate a series of posts highlighting our promos and the discounts the audience stands to receive. Then, include a link to the landing page for the audience to learn more or buy something.
9. Generate a post promoting the benefits of subscribing to our newsletter with a link to the landing page for newsletter subscriptions on our website and a CTA for the audience to click and subscribe.
10. We conducted an interview with [INSERT INTERVIEWEE AND THEIR ROLE/IMPORTANCE]. Generate interest in this interview by posting an intriguing quote and linking to the full interview on our site. Here’s a quote to use [INSERT QUOTE].

Useful Tips for Writing ChatGPT Prompts

ChatGPT is revolutionary in more ways than one. But, for all its intelligence, it is still a computer program at its core and its output is entirely dependent on the quality of your input.

While there are many tips to help you make the most of your ChatGPT content creation process, we’ve found two to be the most important. They are:

1. Use a Tool Built Specifically to Meet Your Needs

Since its inception, many developers have spent countless hours building tools on ChatGPT’s pre-established infrastructure, enhancing its capabilities. 

Because these tools are built to complete very specific tasks, as opposed to being generic LLMs, they’re far more efficient at those tasks than ChatGPT

If you’re looking to improve your chances of getting high-quality content, you’ll have better luck using a specialized tool. 

One excellent example is KWHero. 

It’s an AI-powered content research and generation tool that allows you to research and analyze keywords, understand what your competition is doing to rank on Google’s front page and then outdo them with far better content.

One of the best features of this tool as far as prompting is concerned is that it gives you full control over the entire process. Among other things, you get full control over which competitors your content is based on.  

Most importantly, you can generate an outline, edit it to include or remove certain subheadings and even leave specific instructions in every subheading. That way, no part of the article strays out of your preferences.

2. Be Specific and Give Lots of Context

Context is the mother of all good AI-generated content. Skip out on it and you’ll only get vague results that will be as unengaging to your audience as it is to you.

So, when prompting, be sure to include any and all information that the tool will find useful in generating content for you. This can include, among other things:

• Relevant numbers
• Target audience
• Company name and product description
• Information surrounding the situation you’re creating content about
• The persona, tone, and style you want ChatGPT to adopt for the article 
• Personal stories and anecdotes that you want infused into the content

The list goes on, really. But the point remains the same – be generous with your context and be specific with your requests too. 

Wrapping Up

With the right prompts, generating content for social media or any platform at all is a breeze. This article details 60 of the best prompts you can use for practically any social media channel and offers a good place to start. 

If, however, you’re looking to create content for more than just your social pages, you should check out KWHero. Its seamlessness and user-centric features make it the perfect tool for outranking your competitors.