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

Re:Tsū: A social network that shares its advertising revenue... by tsu_question on Wednesday October 15, 2014 @06:22AM (#8457792)

One issue could be that the $ argument won't work with 99% of users b/c they don't generate enough traffic (i.e. who really cares about, say, $5/month of revenue).

One way to solve it could be to pool the revenue and to position Tsu like this: "90% of revenue goes to a good cause of your choice (climate, humanitarian, etc.), not to 1 huge corporation"

Edit: Every profile would then get a "I Donated $x today" badge (visible publicly) as a feel-good engine. You could then convert the amount to real things like "I paid 2 meals in a 3rd World country today" or "planted 3 trees", depending on your choice of the cause.

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Re:Tsū: A social network that shares its advertising revenue... by rapidlb on Wednesday October 15, 2014 @07:13AM (#8457891)

I don't care about $5 / month, but a lot of users would. But think about content creators (musicians, artists, athletes, etc.) even with a small fan base, they get rewarded few hundred dolla per month. If they stick to the concept, then the regular poor users will follow them.

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Re:Tsū: A social network that shares its advertising revenue... by reitanqild on Wednesday October 15, 2014 @06:34AM (#8457815)

> One issue could be that the $ argument won't work with 99% of users b/c they don't generate enough traffic (i.e. who really cares about, say, $5/month of revenue).

Thats $60 a year? A nice discount on most gadgets. Am I wrong?

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Re:Tsū: A social network that shares its advertising revenue... by tsu_question on Wednesday October 15, 2014 @06:40AM (#8457834)

> A nice discount on most gadgets

Or 1 month of a life in a 3rd World country.

What's more important to us?

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Re:Tsū: A social network that shares its advertising revenue... by hucker on Wednesday October 15, 2014 @06:43AM (#8457841)

I think many would care about $5/month, it certainly is better than nothing, but there is no way that the average user will get even one tenth of that per month.

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