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Re:Tsū: A social network that shares its advertising revenue... by andypants on Wednesday October 15, 2014 @05:57AM (#8457747)
Looks like content is only visible to users. I can understand gating the sign up to require an invite, but hiding the content as well will just kill ad revenue.
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Re:Tsū: A social network that shares its advertising revenue... by realusername on Wednesday October 15, 2014 @06:07AM (#8457766)
I agree, and the blurry image weight approximately 678KB (~88% of the size in bytes of the whole page). I'm sure there are less costly ways to create a fake page or to show that you are not allowed to view the page.
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Re:Tsū: A social network that shares its advertising revenue... by xdmnl on Wednesday October 15, 2014 @06:21AM (#8457791)
Yes, this is the biggest issue the are facing right now. However, since they launched 24 hours ago, there is no ad revenue to kill yet.

I guess the current invitation system is temporary and will be updated to let public content available to anyone.

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