Last night as I was reviewing the latest scam on Steemit, which is perhaps the worst yet, because it's a phishing site which looks exactly like Steemit (hint: steemitblog needs to release a warning about this, so people are educated), I was thinking of better ways to use Twitter for Steemit adoption and encouragement. I think the best way to reduce the amount of scams is for all us to step it up a bit, and get creative about new ways to leverage our existing social media profiles to do good work in the service of others. Scammers rely on desperate people who are either uneducated or distracted. I think we can all help Steemians become more educated, so here's my first solution.....
To reward people who have recently signed up to Steemit and have written their first introduceyourself post, I created a Twitter Special. (image above: image was found somewhere on Twitter, and I cannot remember where....)
Creating interactive campaigns on Twitter that rewards people's efforts do many good things:
- Rewards people's efforts
- Creates more engagement on both platforms
- Helps newbies feel valued
- Creates more traffic to Steemit
- Makes Steemit-related tweets gain traction on Twitter
- Makes Steemit more legitimate in eyes of skeptics
- Drives organic growth of both my Steemit and Twitter profiles
- Sets example for people to follow, which is not related to vote buying desperate schemes.
Take a look at the amazing engagement that my tweet got in the span of a night, which was 17 retweets and 37 likes! This is maybe a personal record for me. And to all the whales and dolphins here on Steemit, you can do the same thing! You are encouraged to copy my idea, because you see how well this works, for everyone, including yourself! I get really excited when one of my experiments actually works to help everyone, and this one is a no-brainer.
Everyone be very careful about what Steemit site you're logging into! The phishing site that looks exactly like Steemit has claimed victims recently. If you get kicked out of Steemit, close the window and only go to a bookmarked Steemit.com site. Do not log into Steemit if you accidentally get out. See my resteemed post for details.
Thanks for everyone resteeming my recent tweet about upvoting newbies.
Stay Vigilant,
Stellabelle
Thats a great idea, I might have to try this approach as well. I have two Twitter accounts with almost 10K followers but I cant get anyone to make the Jump to Steemit. I think some of it has to do with the 'Original Content' we promote here. Most of the people on Twitter are copy/paste Link aggregators. I dont think any of them understand they don't have to Author posts here, that they can still earn by curation and Comments and just actively participating in the Steemit community.
@woodywood143 that is a serious amount of followers .. good job.. maybe some will come over here.
I been trying but have very little luck, Same thing when I tried to get them on board at TSU
try it and see what happens...
I have 14k followers on my main Twitter account, and I usually notice a slight uptick in followers whenever i share a new Steemit post. Maybe test different hastags to increase exposure? I also include my Steemit link in my Twitter Bio.
When I write, I keep Google in mind. I'm here for the long haul, so by adding a touch of SEO, my aim is to draw new users to Steemit through search, long after the payout window closes.
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Great stuff!
What a mess with that phishing site! I saw so many spam posts go by yesterday.
Thank you for the info, this post can help us to prevent scam. @stellabelle
It's nothing but love
All you gotta do
Is share the love.
SPREAD THE LOVE
yeah, I do feel that it's a war love vs. fear! If we are more encouraging towards others and if we do this right, the scammers will be flushed out!
I see some positives here. First, we were able to get the word out pretty fast. We've built up a decent following on Twitter and it keeps growing. So we have that alternate channel to get the word out on things like this.
Second, it's not what happens in life, its how you respond to it. Scammers are always going to be here because there are people and money here. This scammer got shut down fast and didn't hurt many people. But we all responded to raise awareness so this type of scam should be less effective in the future.
We help each other out on Steemit. We cooperate and work together. There is a lot of strength in that.
yeah, and I am really grateful to you for always having my back and alerting me to posts, the good ones and also the ones about scams! Thanks Kenny.
well done @stellabelle, you are doing a wonderful work by creating a win win situation for new steemians and that's some thing great, in this way new steemians got a lot of encouragement and they continue to use steemit plateform, so it is beneficial both for steemit plateform and steemit community as well, keep it up my friend and thanks for sharing
Good idea, I think this will work. Thanks.
Oh yes, rewarding newcomers is so essential. The whole onboarding Process is really sensitive because if a new user doesn't feel that he is welcome the probability is high that he leaves the site again.
The introduce myself Post are a big part of this site and crucial for the future growth of this site.
Great Job!
Thanks for the quick notice. Scammers everywhere.
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Your such a great Steemit-hustler! :)
And I have been following your work with Dash! You're doing amazing recently....did you submit a proposal? I am a bit out of the loop with Dash Nation right now.....has the proposal system changed any?
No proposal - I'm under the Dashforce umbrella for now. Let's see what the future brings :)
If you look at it, I am very invested in every way on Steem: I spent almost a year and a half of my energy helping to build this place, and most of my close friends are those I met here......it goes way deeper than money at this point. It angers me that fucktard scammers want to destroy this platform that was created out of goodness. Actually, it's very tragic that they would use their programming skills to do evil.
We're in a revolution. At the dawn of a new age. This is not just an upgrade to the internet. This is a huge shift of consciousness and technology and the beginning of a new era. This is like when Galileo first said the earth is round. There was a little bit of resistance at first ;)
Nice information. thanks for sharing
Beautiful pictures Are you coming from the future Haha
That's a pretty cool thing of you to do! Helps promote the power of Steemit as well :D
@stellabelle, great ideas you have, I much appreciated you madam for creating like this and congrats on completing your experiment with success, keep it up. You really done great for steamers, and gave a guideline to us,, thanks,.
Nice information. Where there is an original, you will also find a counterfeit. Thanks for sharing, at least with this, people will be more careful
Nice initiative to get new users onboard.
This is very valuable information for someone like me. I'll be careful to check before I log in.
Ooh thanks for the heads up!
thank you for the information! Keep up the good work!
your post is very interesting @stellabelle :) if you are not too busy visit my blog to look around. :)
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This is a great idea. Need to figure out how to add the #steem hashtag to my ifttt
thank you for your nice efforts @stellabelle
Your awesome stella!!! I think giving back is the best thing about this platform. Gald to be celebrating my birthday here than in facebook!!!
Happy Birthday!
Thank you!!! Steemit should really have a better notification system. I'm just seeing this.
good work and success always for your job ..
Glad you are doing this, stellabelle.
I am doing a bit of tweeting myself (related to #Steemit, that is).
Thank u for explaining how we should be careful, if we get 'booted out' of STEEMIT.
Thanks for the heads up! Literally my third post I'm reading on steemit as a newbie. Great info.
Ma to be candid, you are doing g wonderfully well ma, I got to know you through the STEEMFEST CONTEST, What you've been doing is helping people, encouraging them to do a good thing.... You taught us how to have our personal gif not quite long.... Now another innovative is initiated by you to encourage the development of the steemit community.
You are wonderful Ma....
May You Live Long to continue to do more Good both in Steemit community and on the Earth surface.
Yours Sincerely
@honourmaus
I wonder what is next :-(
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You're spreading Steem , this is such a great idea to invite more indivuals to the platform and I'm sure they will all thank you one day
welldone exccellent work stellabelle you are doing great work it will help all new st÷mitian
You are an unstoppable good idea machine. Thanks for sharing @stellabelle
Love the gif with the two phones.. Lol.. you are funny... I have twitter and @fitinlife is nudging me to get it going on.. she even has a way to introduce Steemit in your twitter.. I think I am slow when it comes to these things.. thanks to you new people in twitter will have a great experience when first joining ...
This is a beautiful idea....basically promoting steemit on other social media platform....I am not so used to Twitter ,maybe I can do it with instagram, Facebook and my blog... Good good idea
This is one thing that is so special and i appreciate about @stellabelle, she is an innovator and great encourager. I appreciate this innovation to invite more people into steemit and to encourage new steemians. Thanks so much ma
Ma i have gotten a response to my question yet
I dont know about other people but i think this will be a great idea for Nigerians. Considering the fact that most of them leave because they get nothing. If there can be an incentive like that. Something like a registration bonus. It would be grate and it will motivate them so much. For example. The one you did for @cwen. I am sure she will not think of living and it will be difficult for her to b scammed
this is an awesome idea to help bring new folks to the platform, keep up the great work:)
Thanks for the heads up! What is the actual url of the phake site? it can't be steemit.com, surely?
Which reminds me I need to open a twitter account :)
Good warnings as well, I have seen this sort of thing in steemit chat.
Indeed it is @stellabelle.
I use this as a medium to spread the word, I believe I'm following you on twitter already?
My plan is same as yours, create interesting engagement through other social media platforms, create a route for africans from these places to here, steemit.com.
I see my brethren spending all their time on twitter and especially on instagram.
Shame really.
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Had to sign up on Twitter, not as bad as I thought :) Met many greet steemians there including @stellabelle, @turpy, @ogochukwu, @gunneresq, @lucashunter, @ewuoso, @overkillcoin and so many others. I think it's another great way to engage. Thank you.
Thanks friends. Good to meet you there too.
In steemit we would keep meeting :)
A very good way. And it is a way of spreeding the steemit virus
I do not have a twitter but I will create for steemit purpose and I will tell my group of newbie steemit friends since that steemit Philippines will explode from 100 to 2million of newbie invites from facebook group pages.Im glad that we have switch the facebook users into steemit and Im writing a post about this this couple of days and right now we are still assisting to train and teach newbies while others are waiting for thier steemit sign up approval and tnx to @surpassingoogle who is always very supportive to our activities to keep on inviting newbies and we are going to conduct personal training to newbies who are mostly a facebook users. So I would suggest each one of them to create twitter and create a good self introduction.
This is actually a good idea. The engagement on steemit is really interesting. I am loving it.
Thanks for the keeping us good ones in the loop.. also that's a great way to be the biggest minnow support ! Btw I noticed something fishy about two accounts and I wanna talk to you about it
@stellabelle - Amazing and inspiring effort from you for Steemit adaption by masses.
I am a bit old now on Steemit planet to write an #introduceyourself post but I would like to let you know that I, a social media hater, who had sworn never to Tweet anything in my life, have opened a twitter account now, because of you. After seeing your effort, I realize that, other than giving stupid updates like "Just got up" and 'Took a shower" like many people, Twitter can be put to good use too. Cheers. Upvoted
Regards,
@vm2904
yeah, thank you. I use all my existing social profiles as a way to both spread knowledge and to introduce people to Steemit. The more communication channels, the better for this purpose...
@stellabelle I appreciate your services, coz I see only a few whales and dolphins doing what you are pointing out here, and yes thanks for spreading the word about steemit too.
I am acting on behalf of my own vested interest actually! I am attempting to make Steem the most valuable currency on the planet.
Appreciate that, we all should be looking for that while spreading the word about steemit, am thinking of arranging a gathering regarding steemit, coz this is how we can add value to Steem :)
Thank you for sharing this. I am considering trying this approach. It will be fun to have more people enjoying the benefits of Steemit!