A Love-Hate Relationship With Twitter
Oh Twitter!
As you know, this is the social media platform of choice for the crypto savvy. People that are the experts in Web3 (lol) gravitate towards it. Political rants are everywhere. And of course, this seems to be where the majority of the world gets their news.
Let's just say, I have a love-hate relationship with it.
A quick story with Jongo...
I joined Twitter, pretty much at the beginning. We're talking, May 2008. Not only does this date me and show the world how old I am, but also that from the beginning I 'got' it. I saw the potential of that platform and out of every traditional social media site out there, it's the one I've used the most over the years.
I try to stay away from the drama there, but I do find a ton of value for keeping up on my favorite sports stories and of course, watching what the 'influencers' are ranting about in the cryptocurrency space.
So when Leo Finance started the chatter a few years ago about 'Project Blank', to say I was intrigued is the understatement of the century. A blockchain based Twitter-esque platform? And it's built on Hive?
Where do I sign up?
The promise of this blockchain to me always comes back to this. And some may not like to hear it but....Being rewarded for your time, effort and attention. If we're going to spend hours upon hours here on any social media platform, our content that we create should be rewarded. Not too mention, our content remains ours forever!
That's Hive to me. That's LeoFinance's Threads now!
Back to Twitter, and this year has been interesting...
Even since Elon Musk took over, there's been a lot of hype surrounding it. Lots of hate too, but that's another story. But Elon has plans for Twitter and one of them showed up recently that I wanted to highlight....
So here's Elon, telling the world how awesome it'll be when content creators are rewarded for their efforts and content on Twitter. Sounds familiar right? lol
'Subscriptions' is Twitter's new endeavour to send some income to the content creators for their time and effort spend on the platform. Eerily similar to things like Patreon, this is part of the bigger 'tipping economy' in social media that's been popular over the past few years.
Subscriptions huh....Let's see what it takes to be able to get 'tipped' on Twitter.
Small group?
Elite influencers I'm sure. You know, the ones that push the latest Initial Coin Offering(ICOs) or Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) to unsuspecting followers. Those cream of the class types. Surely I would never be accepted into the elite of elites....
Well, let's press a few buttons and see what they say....
Welp. No bueno!
Apparently, to get past the first step of being 'approved' to accept subscriptions, one must pay. Hmmmm, isn't that illegal? MLM companies have been accused of this for years.....You must pay money to make money....
Anywho, let's give the benefit of the doubt of Twitter and their legal teams for a second. This was just step one of the process. There was no indication that I would be accepted to received subscription payments on the next step. So, let's just say for now....Looks like Jongo is one of the common folk lol
Back to Hive and more specifically, Leo Threads....
You see, we have no gate keepers here.
There's no level of 'influence' one has to reach to be rewarded for their content. What a crazy concept!
Now I know, there will be some that say you have to be on the radar of the whales to make anything decent on the blockchain, but if you earn 0.001 Hive from your content....That's a heck of a lot more than you would with Twitter (excuse me....) On 'Common Folk' Twitter.
This is why I'm so bullish on Leo as well. What is being developed here is going to change everything for content creators online. Like I mentioned, we don't have gate keepers here. Just show up, put in the work and deliver value to the blockchain....You will be rewarded!
There's no butts to kiss, no billionaires to impress, real people are here actually living this web3 thing in front of everyone to see. And I know, we have some other amazing options on here to cater to that tipping economy, and that's a story for another day as well. But right now, today, we have the tools and the applications that could potentially change the landscape for social media creators across all platforms.
So yeah...I love Twitter. It's the social media platform that I enjoy the most of all the traditional ones. Short form content, I don't feel like I need to write a Pulitzer Prize winning article every day. It's where the cryptoverse seems to congregate....
But guess what, I love Hive and Leo much much more! This is the future of real web3. Filled with real people, no fake-for the lights influencers...
Web2 just feels like a necessary evil until that day comes...
Wen? Soon!!!
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Unfortunately Twitter being the oldest platform and also the platform that was matured with age. People just don't abandon and move to other places. Those who said the same and moved to mastadon, came back as well. So I feel that we can't compete with twitter but we can work with it for our own benefit. We have to use Twitter to promote Hive and Leo. And many good authors and gamers onboarded that way is a plus.
Yeah we don't even need to be 'Twitter' to be an awesome second option. Heck, 1% of Twitter's users would send this blockchain to the moon.
It's unfortunate but it's one of the ways that Elon is trying to turn around the financials on that company. They need to do a lot of stuff and I think he is trying to get people to pay for Twitter as much as possible.
Yeah, I'm sure it was bleeding money under the old regime for sure.
To be very honest, Elon is making Twitter the worst place and people have started to stop using it anymore.
I humbly disagree with that. I feel Twitter is much better than it ever was
Everyone has their own view, I'm not saying, everything is bad, there are the things which are good as well.
I think it's better for content, but that being said, it's always been a cesspool lol
Twitter does have that "first mover" advantage, and that means dislodging users from there will not be easy.
I hope Leo's Threads becomes something... at the moment the bridge between short form and long form content is very awkward... but time will hopefully fix that!
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I still think the best way for it to explode is be branded as Threads. A standalone project. Nothing wrong with keeping it in the LeoVerse, it's a huge asset for it. But it's confusing for people to hear 'Threads' and then go to leofinance.io for it.
Everything about Twitter will probably come with some strings attached. I like the direction he is taking in building Twitter and rewarding the creators but web3 ecosystems like Hive are definitely the better alternative to me by almost a wide margin. Looking forward to the exciting experience on the future of web3 :)
Same thoughts, Twitter is fine…Hive and Leo is just much better
Indeed! They have the right structure and principles.
Yeah, all those funds to send to creators has to come from somewhere. Here it's from the rewards pool and the layer 2 tokens.
Right. There's transperancy over here. We mostly know how things work.
Elon is just trying to milk people as much as possible, why not? I mean he can create all this illusion of giving back to creators, but of course, one would have to pay a lot to even get any chances. Eventually I see him making a lot of money for himself in years to come.
I'm sure Twitter will become a very profitable endeavor for him. But he's got enough money. How about the rest of us LOL
Let's see how it goes, I'm looking forward to seeing how he pulls this off.
When you love something and enjoy it so much. It is difficult to leave for something else!
Agreed. Which is why so many people have yet to come to web3!
I find that Twitter is a better way to keep up with what's going on in the world than standard mainstream media. But it's important to remember that you tend to follow people whose views are similar to yours, which can make the information you get biassed.
I agree. That's really what I use it the most for these days as well. I don't ever watch the news.
I have a really hard time with Twitter. As I was telling someone else, I have two accounts, but even with just one the amount of content to sift through each day is just far too much. I can't even handle it. I rarely use either of my accounts due to that.
I don't use it as much as I once did, but it's still my go to resource for sports news lol
That makes sense. I follow my nieces on it. They use it a lot for college recruiting with softball.
I deleted Twitter from my phone, after going through it for a week and singley removing every footprint I made there, which was mostly calling out all the stupidity that people placed there anyway, so no big loss. I haven't opened it since, and can't think of a reason to. I'm not paying money for the right to use the product, it's not that important of a product that advertising can't cover expenses.
I did the same with Facebook on my phone. Freedom lol
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Debatable. I've been thinking about once again creating a Twitter because I like it more than the rest of the traditional type sites. Do you think it's worth the effort if you had to start from scratch again?
I would spend all my effort on Hive. I literally had no followers coming here 5 years ago. And I'm not saying I have tens of thousands here now. But the rewards of being active here, outweigh Twitter 100 times out of 100 for me.
Thanks for the post @jongolson Twitter is greedy wanting you to pay first. I wonder how many people have fallen for it. I'm glad there is a place right here that isn't greedy. Have a great week! Barb :) !BBH !CTP
I joined Twitter when it first started and enjoyed learning how to use it, fascinated by how it was used by teachers and researchers and amazing real time news stories by people present at the time in the situation. Then came mass adoption and shouty people and, well, it all became very boring and corporate.
I hope threads can build some of the ingenuity and creativity we saw in the early days of Twitter.
You cannot possibly compare the traditional social media platforms to Hive. It's entirely different here. The moment I knew I wasted my precious time on social media after I joined Hive, I became less active. It's the Leofinance campaign on zealy that still make me visit Twitter to do make post. We keep up with this social media enriching the owners and at the end they prefer the elite when they need to fill up a position. It's a complete waste of time dropping beautiful contents in platforms one can lose ownership.