Let us start tweeting on leo threads now
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If you are on Hive then actually you can get started in less than a minute.
What do you need to get started with Leo threads ?
- A hive account
You may be on any front end of Hive and posting in any community you are welcome to post on leo threads and by doing this you are creating engagements to your posts, making new friends on the Hive blockchain and earning up votes on your threads that is the threads created by you. These up votes earn you Hive and Leo tokens. - Hive kechain browser extension to manage your login.
If you need help in installing the hive keychain here is an excellent step by step tutorial by none other than
the driving force behind leofinance.io
https://leopedia.io/how-to-download-install-and-use-the-hive-keychain-browser-extension/
Step #1 visit the leo threads front end
https://alpha.leofinance.io/threads This is the new alpha version of the fron end
click on login from the left bottom login button
If you have the hive keychain installed you should have it popping up
This should take you to the leofinance login page
Enter your user name
and click login
This should pop up the keychain extention
Enter your password to login to the hive key chain by clicking on the Unlock button
Click confirm to login
As your login is successful a pop up would appear announcing the succesful login
Post login you should be able to see your login status as your login name/ handle on hive gets displayed here.
The top of your page is where you write your tweet style message.
Click the publish button to create the thread on the hive blockchain.
In case you are wondering ...
what are leo threads ?
They are the twitter on the blockchain.
Meaning any message/ content upto 240 characters can be created on a thread and it stays on the blockchain forever.
How easy it is to tweet on the blockchain
Super easy to say the least.
Leo threads take keep the technical part behind the curtains and all it takes to manage a login to the leo threads is his user name and the password.
The rest of the login process is handled by the hive keychain.
This way any one who is already on twitter and used to login with a login id AKA twitter handle and password would hardly experience any learning curve.
For those who are not on hive ..
Getting a hive /leofinance account is super easy
visit leofinance.io and click the get started button
Click the get started button on the top right corner.
This is the next thing that you would see
Take one of the ways to get started getting onto leofinance.io
FYI : Leofinance.io is a layer 2 front end focusing on crypto, blockchain and financial content.
however leo threads is the decentralized twitter on the hive blockchain.
https://alpha.leofinance.io/threads (latest alpha version)
https://leofinance.io/threads (old version)