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Tsū: A social network that shares its advertising revenue with its users

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Re: Tsū: A social network that shares its advertising revenue with its users

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Post by xdmnl »

From all its (future) advertising revenues, Tsū will keep 10% and give back to its users the remaining 90%:

* 50% goes back to you directly

* 50% goes back to the people who have invited you, such as the person who invited him gets 33%, the person who invited him/her gets 33% of 33% (~ 11%), the one after that 33% of 33% of 33%, etc...

The website is invite-only. You can register here: http://www.tsu.co/xavier.

Re: Tsū: A social network that shares its advertising revenue with its users

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Post by simias »

xdmnl wrote: post #2

From all its (future) advertising revenues, Tsū will keep 10% and give back to its users the remaining 90%: * 50% goes back to you directly * 50% goes back to the people who have invited you, such as the person who invited him gets 33%, the person who invited him/her gets 33% of 33% (~ 11%), the one after that 33% of 33% of 33%, etc... The website is invite-only. You can register here: http://www.tsu.co/xavier .

So anybody who has your "secret" URL can access all of your content? No friend request or anything?

So if I understand correctly the model is that the artists/content creators would create a tsu account to post their stuff and consumers would be forced to make a tsu account to access said content (as I just did to access your page)?

But then you wouldn't use your tsu account to post personal stuff for fear of your tsu URL leaking somewhere and giving anybody access to your vacation pictures?

That sounds like a lot of friction to me. I guess if the content creators can really make more money on this platform than on the alternatives it can be enough to drive adoption.

Re: Tsū: A social network that shares its advertising revenue with its users

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Post by LinaLauneBaer »

ultimoo wrote: post #3

Good concept but with the whole referral code and profit sharing paradigm it starts looking a little bit like a pyramid scheme.

I may be wrong but a 'real' pyramid scheme works a little different.

    A pyramid scheme is an unsustainable business model that 
    involves promising participants payment or services, 
    primarily for enrolling other people into the scheme, 
    rather than supplying any real investment or sale of 
    products or services to the public. (wiki)
So by getting more users they are getting more value (ad revenue). A real pyramid scheme works like this:

    * User 1 sells good G for $n to User 2.
    * User 2 sells good G for $n+1 to User 3.
    * User 3 sells good G for $n+2 to User 4...
Or am I wrong?

Re: Tsū: A social network that shares its advertising revenue with its users

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Post by tsu_question »

xdmnl wrote: post #2

From all its (future) advertising revenues, Tsū will keep 10% and give back to its users the remaining 90%: * 50% goes back to you directly * 50% goes back to the people who have invited you, such as the person who invited him gets 33%, the person who invited him/her gets 33% of 33% (~ 11%), the one after that 33% of 33% of 33%, etc... The website is invite-only. You can register here: http://www.tsu.co/xavier .

What $ amounts of "return" do you expect for us normal (non-Colbert) users?

Re: Tsū: A social network that shares its advertising revenue with its users

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Post by xdmnl »

tsu_question wrote: post #7
xdmnl wrote: post #2

From all its (future) advertising revenues, Tsū will keep 10% and give back to its users the remaining 90%: * 50% goes back to you directly * 50% goes back to the people who have invited you, such as the person who invited him gets 33%, the person who invited him/her gets 33% of 33% (~ 11%), the one after that 33% of 33% of 33%, etc... The website is invite-only. You can register here: http://www.tsu.co/xavier .

What $ amounts of "return" do you expect for us normal (non-Colbert) users?

I'm not affiliated with Tsu other than a friend of mine being one of their developers so I don't really know their plans.

I guess it will depend on the visibility of the content you post.

Re: Tsū: A social network that shares its advertising revenue with its users

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Post by eperoumal »

xdmnl wrote: post #2

From all its (future) advertising revenues, Tsū will keep 10% and give back to its users the remaining 90%: * 50% goes back to you directly * 50% goes back to the people who have invited you, such as the person who invited him gets 33%, the person who invited him/her gets 33% of 33% (~ 11%), the one after that 33% of 33% of 33%, etc... The website is invite-only. You can register here: http://www.tsu.co/xavier .

How do you plan on controlling fake profiles ? For instance, if I create a bunch of fake profiles linked to a real profile and I post randomly on some fake profiles, access posts from fake profiles from the others, what could be preventing me from doing this (and keep all the advertising money to myself) ?
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