Topic: Tsu, the facebook alternative to add Bitcoin ? (Read 1900 times)

It doesn't atm. maybe they'll add Bitcoin support in future.

if it supports bitcoin i am joining

I've been using tsu for quite some timw but then I had to stop because they only offer a check as payment and thus it will not be able to pay me in my country. Earning it that social media is quite easy and I must say it's really fun. The bitcoin concept combined with tsu, I guess will only result to a positive outcome. I hope they will really consider into implementing the concept of bitcoin to their site. It can also be a good thing for the bitcoin community to team up in a social media like this.

i dont know how to earn $$ from tsu,i've been register and posting some post.

This is a news to me. I'm not aware of an alternative to facebook. But it's a good thing for bitcoin community as we see they are integrating bitcoin for the users earning.
Making $200 per month would be a awesome earning I usually dream of it. But not at all possible for me with my current positions.

i joined Tsu for some time since his launch before about a year now, it's really new comparing with facebook or even twitter, but its growing too. The sharing method isn't so simple and many users joined only for money and then left after not earning good amounts.
I f it will support Bitcoin, i think its intelligent method to get more members

This is a video of an italian youtuber that uses tsu, where he explains how it works.

He earns almost 200$ every month.

Kudos for reaching out to them.. We need more people like you.  I agree with you 100% and support my suggestion that we need to find ways for people to earn Bitcoin on

every day social networks, to spearhead mainstream adoption. See this thread where we are discussing this : https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcoin-will-grow-if-we-create-opportunities-for-people-to-earn-it-1211346

I also reach out to companies directly with Bitcoin ideas, and seldom receive any feedback... So it's nice of them to reply to your email.  ....Well Done.

Never knew that it pays that well. Probably a great way for people in poor countries to make a living by sharing videos.

I like the concept of Tsu, but it seems to be pretty hard to earn any decent money. Bitcoin does fit perfect here though!

That's what I've said myself basically as the hindrance to mass adoption. However, I do see the potential for p2p-architecture based networks to eventually enable easier-to-use applications than today. No more scalability problems, no need to remember dozens of accounts and passwords everywhere, you'll automatically self-authenticate with your identity in the blockchain (or in a similar system).

so it work like the youtube monetization, which is 5k for 2M viewer, approximately

it's not that easy to reach 1M viewer, they should pay more to be honest, especially if it is in bitcoin

It's not about the post you write, but the views and likes that your post receive.

And you need a lot of followes to make decent money.

I disagree. The technical aspect doesn't matter for the consumer, only the ease of use and the market penetration.
In both, decentralized solution totally suck. There is no way the average user of Facebook would move on a decentralized solution if it isn't easier to use and faster. The final user tolerate no lagg, no friction and do not want to use his brain.
It is the sad reality.


It seems to pay as much as a bitcoin faucet but the work is very different. You have to get a fan base and discuss a lot.

You have to compare it with YouTube. I guess that none of us ever earned a cent but some people make tons of money.
I made some money once on YouTube because I reached over 350K views. Some videos get billions of views.

This is not for everyone but those able to reach a great audience should get paid. We need to diversify the way of getting income.


Checking this out. Thanks.

I do not know about that new facebook alternative and it's earning potential. I need to thank this thread for the informations on that site.
But no other earning opportunities till now can not match bitcointalk. Faucet level of earning is not in my list as I do not want wasting time.

I have tsu accounts which I created early 2015, I grabbed some usernames that I like  but I don't use those accounts. If they add Bitcoin, I'll gladly come back to that site. 

All these companies are like boxers. When they're on top they look totally invincible. As soon as they start to falter everyone wonders what they ever saw in them.

Facebook could be nowhere in five years. Nothing is guaranteed in an arena where your users can abandon you with a click. There's never been anything like it with quite that much market penetration. Who knows what's around the corner?

I don't think you can earn significant profit from it. Money you possibly can earn will be more within a facets level.
It is primarily a social network, if you want to earn significant profits you need to seek something like Gokano.

That's a great idea IMO! Why do you think it's impossible on FB right now? I think someone should propose that to their staff. They like to look like they are open to new ideas so why not?

I registered 3 days ago. Made like 3-4 posts and some friends. My balance did not raise even a cent of a cent, so I stopped using it.

Some other friends say they have earned some cents. Bitcoin will be a nice addition, of course.

They are wondering about bitcoin and want to create their own altcoin TsuCoin. If they do that, it will be the worst possible income for all cryptocurrency enthusiasts. Divide market even more!

It would be interesting if TSU accepted bitcoin as a way to reward  their  users.

I think it would be very difficult. you not only can show the opportunities, but you also have to be able to see the market statistics

Déjà vu.

There was/is another social network with a participatory model 2-3 years ago that allowed users to own shares of that network. I don't remember its name (something with Z...?), I don't find it anymore.  

They were also asked to integrate Bitcoin and embraced it enthusiastically at first. Then they ditched it (allegedly because users complained that everybody knew that Bitcoin was a scam and was unfair and unevenly distributed), and they figured they can just create their own (centralized) digital coin (with blackjack and hookers!).

Apparently that went so well that they have by now become the uncontested market leader.  

Long moral of the story short: Forget about such centralized social networks. We need a distributed, decentralized social network.

I use Diaspora* and RedMatrix/Friendica but they're not quite there yet to gain mass adoption. It seems to me that the biggest obstacle are some of the technical implications of decentralization implemented upon the old webserver/-client model that users just don't understand. Also there are scalability problems (store all data on all pods/hubs? that becomes too expensive for the admins. or only some data? if so, which, and how, if users perform searches?) So it seems we need a network that works more in a more P2P fashion with the back-end talking to a common but distributed, redundant but de-duplicated storage layer (see storj, maidsafe).

It is true. Every tool used to spread bitcoin or can be used to spread bitcoin is a good thing for it and for us which like it. But i can assure you that with tsu will change nothing. I think that every user in tsu, after 2-3 days on it will leave it. So no one will be able to have some bitcoin and to learn more about it.

As for the using of social networks you are right. I have my doughtier and my wife which passe to many time on those. With their friends. Strange desire for me but them like this. I cannot make nothing except to agree with this in vain theirs desire.  

OP, well done on making that suggestion. Although regulations could be the biggest hurdle for them in implementing BTC. They're based in NYC, that makes it even harder (not sure what's the final outcome of all that Lawsky's licence etc).

The best they could probably do atm is to provide BTC as an alternative payment option for content creators.

If they were to allow tipping and integrated micropayments, they could fall under KYC/AML requirements. But I may be wrong here (I hope I am).


As per first post, just enter 'superresistant' as existing user's short code.

And you know what makes me crazy ? The fact that all these people hooked on Facebook on their phone connected to the Internet are the ones that laugh at geeks, technology and innovation.

It remind me of Bill Gates in 1995 talking about Internet. Look at all these people laughing at his face :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=lz6IQX7uDk4#t=155


It would be awesome indeed.


Yes but I cannot put any link because it would be a referral and mods get crazy about it.
I can give you my nickname though : superresistant
Add it at the end of Tsu URL and see what happen : https://www.tsu.co/(add my nickname here)

What we need to do is get Facebook to implement a Changetip so the users can tip on the top of liking. That would be an awesome feature for Facebook and I don't even want to say what this would do to Bitcoin.

I know this is impossible to imagine to be done at the moment. Maybe if we would implement it in Tsu first so they can see the benefits, the Facebook people!

Just thinking out loud here!

because it was the first on its own way, and the other are kind a clone, a bit like bitcoin

i doubt facebook will be dethroned ever, there must be a way to use bitcoin with facebook in the future, would help a lot for adoption

Interesting, might actually make a dent if they become the first social network to add btc support

Nice idea, i ever heard about this site(but not join yet), indeed this social network is interesting, it will be great if they adopt cryptocurrency. it's need have an invitation for join?

Well for who want to know more about this site https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsu_(social_network)

I just stopped using facebook a week ago and distanced myself from these social media sites, but still I can see people everyday holding their phones and hear those chat sounds almost everywhere! It's crazy, but the fact is people are still hooked up with the charm of fb, and I think tsu or any other social media sites would replace Facebook in the top spot for the years to come.

They sound like a great team as compared to Mark Zuckerberg's. Unfortunately and as always, network effect is a massive player and it might play a role way too big to make people move from Facebook to Tsu. Facebook is just a household name. Sure, even titans can fall like MySpace, but for now, I think Facebook will remain the #1 social media site.

I don't think FB will add BTC, also since the winklevii are pretty successfull in the bitcoin space, so there is some tention there. I checked tsu out about a year ago and didn't really understand it, you had to build a large amount of followers and get them to comment and like your stuff or something to earn something.

One thing i know for sure is that Bitcoin and social media is the future.

I think that tsu will be never able to reach not the activity of Facebook but even 1/1000 of its activity, revenue and users. And this figure is overestimated. Facebook is out and to away of every kind of concurrence in its field of work.

Well fb still has the most users, even between 18-24.

Here's a breakdown of how eMarketer predicts market share will change for different U.S. demographics for the top social nets over 2015 and 2016.

[Update: The number of total social network users in 2015 below should be 179.7 million including users under the age of 18. All other total figures include this demographic.]

Are u kidding me? it has more 'younger' users than whatsapp which is pretty much the second popular social platform.

While I like the idea, its certainly not new[1]. I dont think facebook will be their problem. Facebook is too old and not very popular among the younger demographics. IIRC it should have hit its peak already. It will go down and be replaced like it replaced MySpace.

Ill have a look at, feel free to send me a ref link via PM. Is it something new though or "just another facebook"? I dont think the payment for content alone will make them. They need something else.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaron_Lanier#Who_Owns_the_Future_.282013.29

I just discovered this website but I was expecting that the average user would not make any money, exactly like the average user of YouTube.
If I compare with Facebook, the value of each user is about 141 USD. Source. But that is an average.

A lot of people earn their life with a YouTube channel. It should be possible to do the same with social network like facebook.
As I said, not everyone would make a living, only some people.
One could combine a YouTube chanel + a Tsu page.
Everyone should be allowed to transfer money and tip. It is probably the absence of easy tipping system that stop people from making money.


Agree.


Done.

well i idid not know about tsu, never hear about it, but what im 100% sure is that to spread the word of the bitcoin is always a good idea, through tsu or in any other way.

so from my point of view, if they start to do it, it will help.


haha i know how you feel, i dont like so much the social networks too, but you know, there is lot of people who use it, so...


i just notice that, you are in truth, he should remove it.

I do agree with  n2004al as I had the same outcome with Bitlander as many might already knew them as their main purpose is bitcoin and paypal rewards but after a long time being active on their website, nothing really happened in terms of acceptable earnings and I'm afraid the same would be with tsu in case of overall experience and probably better to invest the time some where else

I am a member of Tsu, and up until now I can't fully understand how sharing posts and liking some content would net me something in return. Afaik, they once integrated bitcoin to their system, back when I'm still a newb in bitcoin.

I am member of tsu and I can tell that is not gold everything which shine. I was active there for a limited period of time an had some activity. I haven't see any cent from those. Maybe I have not made the right activity or maybe my activity was not enough that me earn money; I don't know this. But I know that the time spent there is wasted time for me. At least so was all my time spent there.

If those will paid in bitcoin this can be a good thing. But if they will not give satoshi for being and having activity there (as it is promised) this is not a good thing.

And you OP must remove your referral link from your main post. I had a 10 days ban only for posting a such link.

Thanks !


The thing is that there is no chance of Facebook ever adding Bitcoin, they already created their credit system that they fully control.
But we do have a chance with its competitors like Tsu.
It would be a great promotion for both Bitcoin community and Tsu users.

Conceptually good and interesting. But, the reason no alt coin will ever take over bitcoin, is the reason tsu will never be able to compete FaceBook. The early bird advantage & network effect.

But well, once upon a time Yahoo! was numero uno in search land, but Google beat them.

Never heard of it but it's good to see they're open to the idea about implementing bitcoin maybe. Good stuff by yourself trying to spread the word too, well done!

I recently discovered Tsu, a social network that share 90% of benefits to users.





Bitcoin immediately came to my mind so I send them a mail :



Here is the reply :




What do you guys think ? Any suggestion or idea that could help getting Bitcoin onto Tsu ?
Thanks.

Try Tsu if you haven't. I use the same name as here.
There are not referral in my post, I do not intend to spam.