Tsu New User: Top 5 Tips

So, you've heard there's a new social network called Tsu, and you've setup an account. What next?
First it's important to understand what Tzu is, it's not a place to get rich quick. You know that Tsu pays it's ad revenue back to its users, but for the average user that amount will be tiny. Accept that you won't be retiring on the money. However, even if the amount is tiny the model is still fairer than other social networks that keep all the revenue for themselves. If you believe in that fairer model then you can move onto Tsu and try to make it work. How do you do make it work? Well here are my top 5 tips to making Tsu work for you.

1) Make some posts. If you just turn up, add a profile picture and the never do anything else, what reason is there for anyone else to stay? A network with no content is not a network. So post as you would on any other network.

2) Find some friends. Look about for people you know. Content is nothing without people to look at it. Use the "find friends" function to see if you know anyone from other social networks or from your contacts.

3) Hashtag your posts. Including hashtags makes your posts available to the wider network, and you may pick up some followers. If you're worried about privacy you can set posts to "friends only" so only friends, not followers will see them. Doing that will limit visibility of the post though.

4) Finds some groups. See if there are some groups that share interests with you, join them, post to them. Your friends will see these posts and may also join. If you can't find a group, create one. Tsu are approving groups at the moment and it does seem to be taking a while, but stick with it.

5) Encourage people you know on other social networks to join up. Certain networks are blocking direct links to Tsu at the moment, but my buddy James (Tsu.co/squid_liquor) made this script: squidliquor.pythonanywhere.com/yourusername which will allow you to share your link to the blocking networks. Just replace "yourusername" with the your Tsu username.

Feel free to come and find me on Tsu (Tsu.Co/greendan64) and join up (Tsu have turned off the invite requirement so you can either sign up using my link or by going directly to www.Tsu.co).

Thanks for reading!