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Social Post A/B Variants Writer

What This Skill Does

Generates two or three distinct social media post variants for the same article or piece of content, each testing a different angle, hook, or emotional register, so you can run a controlled comparison and learn what resonates with your audience.

When To Use This Skill

• You are publishing a new article, video, or episode and want to promote it across social media without committing to a single framing before you know what works
• Your publication has enough followers to generate meaningful engagement data and wants to make distribution decisions based on evidence rather than instinct
• You need copy for a scheduled social media test — two posts going out at similar times to different audience segments, or sequentially over several days
• A previous post underperformed and you want to relaunch the same content with different framings

What You Need To Provide

Required: The headline or title of the piece, a one-paragraph summary of what the article covers, and the platform you are posting to (LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, or Bluesky).

Optional: The primary audience segment (general public, specialists, decision-makers); any constraints on length or tone set by your publication's style guide; the specific hypothesis you want to test (e.g., "curiosity-gap hook vs. direct statement of fact"); any call-to-action wording you want to keep consistent across variants.

How the Assistant Approaches This

1. Identifies three proven copywriting angles for the piece — typically: a direct news statement, a curiosity or question hook, and an emotional or human-interest angle — and selects the two or three that are most plausible given the content.
2. Drafts each variant independently, keeping the article link and any fixed call-to-action identical across variants but varying the opening sentence, emotional register, and framing strategy. Each variant is genuinely different — not the same post with one word swapped.
3. Labels each variant with its hypothesis (what it is testing), so the social media team can interpret results without needing to decode the copy themselves. Notes any platform-specific formatting (character limits, hashtag conventions, emoji norms).