What is tsū? The New Social Network Where You Can Make Money

Have you ever been writing out a Status Update on Facebook and thought, “There is so much wit in this post, I should get paid for my thoughts!”? Or, “If only I could make some money off these awesome photos I am sharing with my audience.” Of course you have, because you’re a clever person but you still need to pay the bills. There have been attempts by the major social networks of the world to pay users for their originally-generated content, but most have fallen short or somehow intruded on users’ privacy policies and terms and conditions. But that hasn’t stopped people from trying to create new methods of earning.

Enter the newest social network that wants to pay you for your original content: tsu.co.

While tsū (pronounced ‘Sue’) is still in its infancy, the new social media site hopes to reward users and content generators for their original content in ways no other platform has prior. Here’s a few “about” blurbs from tsū’s website:

With tsū, users can monetize all social content in an exponential way due to the nature of how established social networks work and also in perpetuity since users forever tie themselves to other users vs. tying themselves to a platform. For the first time every content creator can attach their content to their social network and benefit from royalties in perpetuity.

Since tsu.co does not invite anyone to the platform itself, it instead allows users to utilize a short code invite system that tracks & distributes 100% of the social economics of the platform to its users. This unique architecture gives users an annuity for their content due to the way users tie themselves together through seamless invitations. As such, users are incentivized to grow the platform since the monetization overlays a network effect onto each tsū user’s social network. The more relevant a user’s content and the larger their network, the proportionally greater the monetization is.

Essentially, tsū will pay their users for their content based on the amount of people they invite to join the site and follow them. So what you ear is based on how hard you want to work at promoting yourself across all of your social networks.

For the most part, tsū works almost identical to Facebook. You have your timeline populated by not only your original content but by that content shared by those you friend and follow. You can publish original thoughts and ideas to your wall or newsfeed, share links from sources around the web, post pictures and videos, etc. It’s not like learning an entire new network. Given tsū wants to pay you for your content instead of you just blindly sharing it is where things get a bit different.

tsū offer’s a breakdown of their algorithm that better illustrates how the heck anyone gets paid on this platform:

User A invites user B, who invites user C, who invites user D
Part 1– $100 of earned revenue is generated based on the content user D shared (photos, videos, status updates, etc.)
Part 2– 90% of earned revenue go to the users. In this case, $90 of the $100 is shared with all the users.
– tsū takes 10% of the $100 for platform fees. In this case $10.
Part 3– User D, the original content creator takes 50% of the $90. In this case, $45.
– User C gets 33.3% (1/3) of the original $90 generated. In this case, $29.70
– User B gets 11.1% (1/3 of 1/3 = 1/9) of the original $90 generated. In this case $9.99
– User A gets 3.70% (1/3 of 1/3 of 1/3 = 1/27) of the original $90 generated. In this case $3.33
The way we see it, it can’t hurt to try this platform. Facebook and Twitter are already making millions off your content with very few, if any, payouts to you. The only issue with tsū is the fact that there aren’t too many people on it yet, and getting people to join a new social network is not the easiest thing in the world. We’re creatures of habit, yeah?
Like we said, this site is still in its early stages, but it seems like it could work to help reward the lot of us for the content we share already. If you’re sharing your stuff on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, YouTube, etc., it might be worth it to try out tsū. If you want to know more, check out the FAQ’s.
We like testing out new things ourselves too, and we can be found on tsū here: http://www.tsu.co/NisarAhmad
If you want to give it a shot and join us, feel free to use our unique code to get your invite!
Click here to get your invite code.Who knows how big this thing will be or if it will even work given the fact that a new social network seems to pop up every minute, but there’s no harm in trying. It’s free.