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From all its (future) advertising revenues, Tsū will keep 10% and give back to its users the remaining 90%:

* 50% goes back to you directly

* 50% goes back to the people who have invited you, such as the person who invited him gets 33%, the person who invited him/her gets 33% of 33% (~ 11%), the one after that 33% of 33% of 33%, etc...

The website is invite-only. You can register here: http://www.tsu.co/xavier.

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> The website is invite-only. You can register here: http://www.tsu.co/xavier.

My issue is I don't really know what it is that you are sharing with me. For me this only work if it is an actual friend referring.

All I get in return is tuppence, which isn't really worth leaving my well established network of family and friends.

So anybody who has your "secret" URL can access all of your content? No friend request or anything?

So if I understand correctly the model is that the artists/content creators would create a tsu account to post their stuff and consumers would be forced to make a tsu account to access said content (as I just did to access your page)?

But then you wouldn't use your tsu account to post personal stuff for fear of your tsu URL leaking somewhere and giving anybody access to your vacation pictures?

That sounds like a lot of friction to me. I guess if the content creators can really make more money on this platform than on the alternatives it can be enough to drive adoption.

They launched the invitation system less than 24 hours ago.

I agree with the two issues you mentioned but I think the main issue here is the invitation system : you have to share your profile URL to invite people. They should let people invite strangers with a specific invitation URL.

I suppose they made Tsu profiles accessible to Tsu users only to drive adoption. Once they have enough users, it will make no sense to keep it this way.

EDIT: > But then you wouldn't use your tsu account to post personal stuff for fear of your tsu URL leaking somewhere and giving anybody access to your vacation pictures?

You can share private content to your friends & family (requires you to add users as friends) and public stuff to your followers / Tsu community

How do you plan on controlling fake profiles ? For instance, if I create a bunch of fake profiles linked to a real profile and I post randomly on some fake profiles, access posts from fake profiles from the others, what could be preventing me from doing this (and keep all the advertising money to myself) ?

I don't plan anything since I'm not affiliated with Tsu =)

I don't know if they thought about it but since their goal is to give back advertising money to users, doing so won't harm anyone other than the user who referred you.

You basically just described what everybody does with Google Ads: Click bots to click their own ads. So if Tsu displays Google ads, it will be Google's problem (or better: the advertisers' problem). (I don't work at Tsu.)

What $ amounts of "return" do you expect for us normal (non-Colbert) users?

I'm not affiliated with Tsu other than a friend of mine being one of their developers so I don't really know their plans.

I guess it will depend on the visibility of the content you post.

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