Things went fairly slowly to start with. I acquired a few followers, but it took a few weeks to even earn a few cents. I could see people frantically adding friends and followers (you can have 5000 and 1000 of each respectively). That did not appeal to me as it would make it impossible to monitor the feed of posts. I don't have the time to go looking at lots of separate feeds for cool stuff. I use social sites to see what friends are up to and to see cool/interesting/funny posts.
You have to make $100 before you can ask to be paid (originally via cheque, Paypal and other means were added later). It looked like that would take years to achieve, but I gradually built a larger following and started earning a little more. I also built a network of people (Tsu 'children') who used my profile link to join the site. I get a percentage of what they make and a smaller slice from their children, grandchildren etc make. That's not making me much at the moment, but it should in the long term.
I'm a long way from $100, but this week I just took delivery of a physical item bought with Tsu currency. British artist adogaday sent me one of her pictures that I took a fancy to. She's doing well by selling her work on Tsu. Anyone in the world can easily send her the money and she can get paid when she builds up enough.My picture was partly paid for by a blog post I wrote on Tsuniverse. That may be my first time being paid to write.
I'd have had enough for a picture much earlier if I hadn't given so much to charity, but that's another great aspect of Tsu. There are all sorts of events and challenges to encourage giving and I find myself getting involved. One of these is #fivecentfriday. I try to give a little to a selection of charities each week. Some of those with more income have been matching these donations to boost the totals. It all adds up.I expect I will get to $100 one day. It will take months, but then that money will go into a fund towards buying myself a treat.
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