I'm Giving some Serious thought to Signing up for X Premium
I have about 30 Twitter (or "X") accounts that I've tweeted with over the years, including my namesake main one. I have over 25,000 followers across all of them, and 11,000 on my big account that I've had since 2010.
I've been following the posts (when I see them in the carousel at the top of hivestats.io), of someone on Hive who is experimenting with Premium in order to promote Hive, and am considering joining him.
What I found on what I call "Twitter BE" (Twitter before Elon), was that even when I was getting no upvote support and little engagement here on Hive (almost 7 years of that now), people WERE seeing my posts through Twitter when I'd tweet them after publishing.
You guys all know I'm sure, that tweets are indexed by Google, right? So a well-written hive post that was seen an interacted with by nobody here, was actually getting exposure through my TWEETS.
How do I know this? Because they'd mention it in my DM's. Now whether they actually clicked through to the Hive post itself, I don't know. If they did, they might have declined to join after seeing my Hive post with just a few cents of upvotes and almost no real engagement aside from the foreigners looking for content to steal.
If you clicked through from one of my tweets and saw my post that had only been upvoted to say 50 or 60 cents, It'd be completely understandable if you clicked away, right? (this is a byproduct when you don't support creators on Hive).
Last year, I decided to change the subject-matter of my X account away from the heated political discussions I was involved in, to a facts channel, before tweeting less and less due to caring for my relative.
Lately, I've been interested in where Musk is planning to take the platform, and am thinking of jumping in and paying for X premium.
And yes, before you ask, I DID consider paying for Inleo Premium (or whatever they're calling it this week), but got tired of some nimrod telling me (and others) to "log out, clear your cookies, empty your cache, and log back in again" everytime I asked why the site wasn't allowing me to attach a pic in threads.
Nothing worked, and I saw they were using the same tired old spiel to others who also had issues with the site, so I got tired of fighting with it gave up on it.
One guy even had the nerve to tell me that there were "no problems on the site, and that everything works perfectly." WHAT? OK dude. No Problems, got it (he's living in denial. If my site wasn't working correctly, I'd rather be told the truth instead of having my ass kissed. You know, so I could actually fix the problem).
Guys, I'm not here to lick anybody's nutsack. Let's get this shit fixed so that we can grow both Hive and Inleo, OK? I'd MUCH rather spend my tokens here than spend money over there.
My photos actually upload with "no problems" on Twitter/X, (and I don't have to clear my history or cache) so I'll focus on what works.
It was interesting to have someone contact me on X about a Hive post I wrote 3 and 5 YEARS AGO. That proves that while many people might have been chased off of Hive due to the games that are sometimes played here, my writing was being seen OUTSIDE the system.
My guess is that they were typing a search term into one of the search engines, and because I've shared a lot of content on Twitter over the years, one of my old tweets would pop up. They click through to my Twitter account and then interact directly with me.
They also may have found me through the Twitter search function. But either way, it's nice to know that my work is being seen by SOMEBODY, even if they're outside of Hive.
Elon seems to have big plans for X, and I'll be keeping an eye on where he takes it. Are any of you using X Premium to promote your Hive posts? What's been your experience with it?
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I have been considering it myself. I am not really incredibly active on Twitter, but when I am, I see way more engagement.
I am glad to hear that someone else had the same problems with the LEO UI AND the team that I did. I actually got into a very heated discussion with Khal over the issues and ended getting the premium on one of my accounts refunded. Never again. I hate the way they keep changing the terms of stuff like what they consider a quality post, as well as the UI constantly breaking, and them telling us it’s our fault! LOL yeah 🖕🏻that. On top of it, any post you make from there, they get 5% of and you can’t change it. I have started powering down all my LEO and selling it.
The overall support for creators and projects is really gross here on Hive lately. It’s been a battle for sure and I feel like I have spent way too long being so laser focused here that I have lost out in other areas. That change has already begun. I am still here and posting though as more of a side hustle thing these days instead of trying to be a full time Hiver.
Edit: to add on to the whole twitter vs Hive thing, its insane to me, and sad, that the Hivelist project (one of my Hive projects) has double the followers in Twitter than here on Hive. Blows my mind.
I hear you, believe me. I LOVED Leofinance when we had LeoMarketTalk in the runup to "Project Blank" now Threads, and enjoyed every minute of interacting with Taskmaster and the others. I tried over and over again to simply post a photo in Threads or even just having a regular written post show up, and kept hearing the same thing about "clearing cookies". They act as if it's some kind of cult over there where you're not allowed to point any issues out, and I finally gave up (I was just about to order Inleo Premium too).
I don't mind the 5% as I usually set multiple beneficiaries to my posts anyway, I just need a front-end that works.
A couple of years ago, I started noticing a slow trickle of people leaving Hive (or being driven out), and accpted opportunities to write for other platforms. Since I specialize in long-form content, I'm also looking at possibly writing for Medium since I can't get any traction here with my long-form content.
I've been here seven fucking years, and I think I've trended TWICE. When I take a look at what DOES trend, I can say they sure as hell aren't always supporting QUALITY content, that's for DAMN sure!
It's the same old people upvoting each other.
They play games by putting you on secret lists and telling people not to upvote your posts, (I've been here since 2016, I've seen it all. Don't drink the Kool-Aid, folks!). They're commiting the same shadow banning that they complained about on Web 2.0 platforms. Who has time for that nonsense? You write a well-written and researched post which (if you're lucky, gets upvoted to 70 cents), and some jackass takes 5 blurry pictures of his walk to the corner store (with very little text), and it gets upvoted to $30. What message are we sending here? We're not gonna grow Hive that way.
I may just pay the $50 per year so that I can support other deserving writers (even if I don't write on Medium) that I enjoy reading on that platform.
You should NEVER put all your eggs in one basket. If you're a good writer, branch out so that you have more opportunities to maximize your talent.
You mention having a larger reach for your community OUTSIDE of Hive, and I see the same with me. I'm already a "Whale" of sorts on one of the platforms that I write for after just a couple of years as a contributing writer. It really highlights the possibilities available when you have a more level playing field for those of us that are good writers.
I have been looking at writing on Medium myself. For crypto related stuff I also post to my site, https://coin-logic.com but I don’t have much monetizing me over there yet as I HATE Google ads and alike with a fucking passion. So I double post to Hive hoping for someone to upvote. I am thinking of doing a private advertising thing to get sponsored for some of my articles. I may start putting my trading related posts on Medium for the Logical Trading Academy so I can try to get monetized for my work more than the little crumbs I get from Hive upvotes.
Yay! 🤗
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