X-Strategy Chronicles: Journey to Monetization | Week 02

I started this journey strong, and the first week was more than I could have imagined. This is the report for the second week. Although my performance was a tad bit disappointing this time, I am sharing it because it is all part of the process—the ebb and flow.

I have learned more about X (formerly Twitter) in the space of two weeks than I thought I would. I never got the hang of it for a long time, until I started to show up a little more often. And showing up a little more often basically meant I had something I was chasing, which is the monetization possibilities on X. Hence, the reason for subscribing to X Premium.

Perhaps I would be spending a lot more time on X now. And the reason is that it is quite a useful platform, and, if tuned properly, one could very well have a tool to expand their productivity and knowledge owing to the myriad of information accessible on it. I am still trying to get the hang of it, however. For one, the Pro mode allows for multi-tasking and streamlining focus—with Premium, of course. But I digress...

The journey I am sharing is the one I am trailing to monetization on X. And in that vein, I have certain goals to attain in a space of 3 months: to monetize, obviously, and to promote Hive.

To be monetized on X, there are two available programs on X. One can either do so with "subscriptions" or "ad revenue sharing." Ad revenue sharing is the option I am focused on.

To be eligible, I need to meet certain requirements:

• Subscribe to Premium.
• Have at least 5M impressions on my posts within the last 3 months.
• Have at least 500 followers.

I have the Premium subscription now, so five million impressions and 500 followers are my target for the next three months. One week went by, and I shared my progress in the first edition of these chronicles.

In the previous week, I was able to rack up 861K impressions within seven days. I would admit that I was very excited about, you know, trying something new. It happens that exploring something I find interesting for the first time gets me all enthusiastic and zealous about it. And that's how I raced all the way up to even 1M impressions after that day.

In the last seven days, however, many of my stats went down. It's all mostly red below because they are lower in comparison with the previous seven days—619K impressions. It tells me that I either have not been doing as much as I was or I have just been less lucky this time. My guess is the former.

Two days ago, the low results felt weird. I even thought that I had been shadowbanned and had been getting my tweets and comments visibility suppressed somehow, and that was making me get lower views (impressions). I was wrong. I checked again, through this site and I saw that I was just fine. The issue must have come from my engagment.

As it turns out, my engagement rate dropped quite a lot in the past seven days. I think I must have gotten used to earning so many impressions on a single comment or post that I relented on making as much as I could in a day. And then I wasn't as lucky as before and had my numbers go down.

I am following and piggybacking big accounts, and that's how I am able to rack up impressions most times. The problem, however, is that some of the content of these accounts is irrelevant to me, and I therefore get tired of them. What I am going to do in the coming week is find other big accounts I could hang around with but share content that I do find interesting or at least useful. Let's see how that goes.

On the bright side, I have calculated that one needs about 400K impressions every week to be able to earn 5M impressions in three months. So I think I am still on track with the particular estimation.

My impressions may have dropped by about 250K, but it only tells me to do better in the coming week. Let's see how it goes.