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| There were a lot of issues with Tsu, not the least of which was the fact that earning was painfully slow and that they only paid by cheque. It paid well for the power users who had hundreds of downline users. But only for them. And their activity was probably bankrupting the site. Other issues were a lot of copyright infringement, which was largely ignored by the admin, and the fact that you couldn’t see anything on the site without being logged in. I think that alienated a lot of potential users, who might have enjoyed earning on a site that was like Facebook. As @sunil says, there were some poor decisions made by the admin on Tsu. I don’t think many of us are surprised about them closing. Most people I know left there a long time ago.
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| @lolaze many people were active though not many were serious. | |
| @ruby3881 Yes the model was flawed and there was a sense of too much waywardness! | |
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OK! I confess. I wasn’t that serious. But I think it had income potential. No biggie. I didn’t lose much by their departure. Glad it happened now and not 5 years up the road.
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| That’s exactly why I left when I did. It had potential, but the owner didn’t listen to members who said the content needed to be visible to non-members. No site is going to be sustainable enough if it’s paying users but not getting any external traffic. | |
| @ruby3881 – Getting external traffic? I thought that was the point of being able to share via Facebook and Twitter. I can’t say what happened behind the scenes but something major must have gone on. Why wholly revamp a site and then shut it down within the year? That’s not good business sense at all. I suspect we don’t have the whole story and doubt we ever will.
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| @cmoneyspinner I’m sure we never will. But you have to figure that they earned a lot of revenue from all the activity there. They had more than a million users in just a month or so of launching, and to my knowledge, they only ever paid a handful of people their $100 cashout. I think they earned what they could and then they closed because traffic was dropping off and it wasn’t profitable anymore. The closed model was never going to work. If all your ad revenue comes from your own users, you can’t stay afloat. And their system was set up so non-users couldn’t see anything on the site except the front page. | |
| @ruby3881 ~ Based on my experiences with these social networks that say they’ll pay, I’ve decided on a self-imposed rule that if the cash out is $100, I’m not wasting my time there! In most instances they promise revenue sharing but it appears they help themselves to the revenue and only share with a select few members. I got better things I can do with my time. (Sigh.) Quoting one of your fellow Canadians, Alanis Morrisette: “You live. You learn.” 🙂
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| True @ruby3881 | |
| @cmoneyspinner indeed, some facts will never be out, and will remain a mystery. | |
| I prefer to work on sites where I can cash out every 30 days or so. If the effort takes a little longer, especially the first time, that’s OK. But if other users are consistently saying it takes them 3-6 months or more to reach the minimum cash-out point, that’s too long. With Tsu, most people couldn’t have made cash-out in a year! Plus the amount we earned decreased significantly there, after I’d been very active for about month. They didn’t admit it or explain it, but it definitely decreased a lot. | |
| I agree @calmgemini | |
| @ruby3881 I think even a year would be a challenge to reach payout at Tsu, except for someone who might have had 12 hrs a day of doing nothing but Tsu. | |
| @ptrikha15 I think perhaps you are right! When I first started at Tsu, I was making about 5 cents a day there for a few interactions with some friends and a chance to share some of my blogging links. Maybe I spent an hour or so, chatting with friends and looking at some truly stunning photography and artwork that I couldn’t see anywhere else. There was no effort involved. It was relaxing, so I didn’t mind that the pennies were only trickling in at a time when I could still earn several dollars for a 100-word post at the B site in only a matter of minutes. But I guess about a month after I joined, many of us on the site started to notice a lot of abuse on the site. Lots of copyright infringement, vulgar images and posts promoting the drug life. Some users seemed to be using sockpuppets (additional accounts used to game the system) and these users were violating the TOS with impunity. Rather than to address our genuine concerns over this kind of abuse, the admin at Tsu ignored us and said we couldn’t complain about copyright infringement unless we owned the copyrights to the works in question. And of course, they knew we didn’t. They allowed those works to stay on the site, presumably because all that violating content was earning them ad revenues. It wasn’t until some of the actual copyright owners started to complain that Tsu did something about all that infringing content. They added the ability for people to report abuse, directly from the content itself. But of course, you had to be a registered member of the site to even SEE the content. And what bona fide artist was going to join a site after learning its admin were allowing users to violate his copyright? Absurd, right? But that was the catch 22! Around that same time, the amount of money we earned for our interactions suddenly plummeted without warning. From one day to the next, the same activity went from paying 5 cents to maybe not paying a penny at all. It was like the admin were punishing those of us who wanted a site where we could enjoy social interaction without all the pornographic content, glorification of drugs, and copyright violations. That was more or less when I left the site. It would have taken me over a year to earn the $100 at the original pace. But when they dropped the rates, it just stopped being worth it. And frankly, I didn’t want to contribute to lining the pockets of a site owner who did business like that. | |
| I joined tsu,but inactive for one year.That site is useless.When I visited back I recognized its new platform and planned to come back and invited people only to know that it is closing.Tsu will never last for years considering its style and payment method.I am glad it shut down. |
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