https://www.tsu.co/account/bank
So
how would this actually work?
Tsu founder Sebastian Socczak's profile
The
new social network vows that 90% of its revenue will go back
to users, so every time you write an update, share a photo, or visit a friend's
profile, you could be earning some cash for yourself.
So
that dream of sitting on your computer all day and making bank could be closer
than you think... or could it?
My profile: I'm not yet making much money from Tsu...
How
much could I ACTUALLY expect to earn?
Well
it's quite easy to work that out.
The
press pack released by Tsu shows some pretty optimistic figures for how much a
user could expect to earn, with a figure of $23.3 per day.
That's
not enough to buy that house in the south of France just yet, but it's still
enough to pay for lunch and dinner every day.
It's worth pointing out that the above profile for John
Smith doesn't actually exist on Tsu
But
the big point here is that a new social network is coming along and wants tochallenge
Facebook, and it wants to empower its users.
So
if, in the best possible scenario, Tsu did eventually have the same success as
Facebook in terms of recruiting new members (Facebook has over a
billion users), you can use Facebook's revenue per user to work out
how much Tsu users could make.
The
average Facebook user is worth $1.95 (£1.21) of revenue to the
company each month (based on data for the first three months of 2014).
So
really, each user is worth around $0.50 (£0.31) per week. Obviously
if Tsu had the same revenue-per-user it would only be giving 90% of
that back to its users, to that's $0.45 (£0.28).
Can
I live on £0.28 per week?
No.
But
is that the point?
No.
The point is that social networks are built on people, we use them probably a
bit too much, and other people profit from that.
People
are sailing on yachts and buying Tiffany jewelry because we open up an app on
our phone to see what our friends are up to.
Tsu
don't want to give each of us a yacht, or a shiny Tiffany ring, but it wants to
at least give something back.
A
statement on the website says:
"2
billion of you create social content and get nothing for it. It's your content,
your audience and you should own it."
