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This post is about my journey of getting my X blue tick and the weekly progress report of my twitter account.
X blue tick is a premium feature
Getting the blue tick was quite a prestigious thing back in the times of twitter . Now it is a paid feature.
When I moved to hive I became more active on web 3.0 and my X / twitter account took a back seat.
Though I had a decent following on twitter I went into a passive mode on X
The blue tick possibility made me curious
Ever since getting a blue tick became a possibility thanks to the paid option I was eager to explore the possibility of exploring the benefits of the bluetick
In September I got my blue tick
It was partly curiosity and partly fueled by the desire of being heard by a larger audience on X that I jumped on the blue tick paid bandwagon.
How I got X bluetick is a story in itself as I wanted to tweak and spruce up my profile before I applied for the prestigious blue tick.
Doing changes to your profile delays getting the blue tick as there is a mandatory cooling wait period if you make changes to your profile just before you apply for the blue tick.
Another issue that I faced with payments was that only a bank credit card is accepted as a mode of payment.
I do indulge in a lot of online payments and am well aware of the risks involved in entering my billing details and credit card number on any site.
Therefore I opt for a virtual card that my bank lets me create and this reduces my risk.
However, Stripe based credit card processing that X uses did not seem too happy with my choice of credit card being used for paying my X blue tick subscription and kept declining my payment.
Luckily I have more than one credit card so I tried another one and it got accepted after a few tries.
All this made me wonder what if paying with crypto was an option to settle the blue check mark subscription fee.
At the time of payment I had two options, one is to make a monthly payment and the other is to make a yearly subscription payment.
Since I am testing the waters of the coveted X blue tick mark I opted for the monthly payment plan.
Finally the blue tick mark arrived
Apparently X reviews your application as per its terms of service and then the blue tick mark appears against your profile.
Since I started my active blue tick journey in September I am using my August month stats as reference.
My account stats for the month of August
As per the stats for the month of August I see the numbers as
Your Tweets earned 703 impressions over this 31 day period
Quite meagre numbers and nothing much to write about.
It took me a while to get traction on X once again and slowly I began to gain momentum.
Graph for the last 7 days
The numbers look interesting and better from August as my account has clocked 71.3K impressions in the last 7 days.
The last three days of the week have been the best for me.
Each day my account is getting 12K impressions every day.
This makes me wonder if I can get this kind of traffic to my inelo posts then how much revenue would I be earning as evergreen rewards?
Numbers on my accounts analytics page
They got better in the time I noted them
The numbers I am focusing on are
Impressions 85880 Up 93%
Profile visits 134 Up 58%
New followers 10 Up 150%
likes 305 Up 78%
Replies are 79
The entire snapshot looks as follows
I have been working on my X account on a daily basis and as a result these are the numbers that I see for the last 28 days.
Some of my tweet stats
I am glad that my hive rally long post has been getting some nice viewership.
Monetization is still far away
When I check the possibility to monetize my content I see I am below the mark so the option is turned off for me
Can one start the content monetization journey at a lower threshold?
The answer is a big YES
By opening an FREE web 3.0 account via this link
One can not only start posting immediately from the moment you create your account but you can also start earning based on the quality of content that you create.
You can reach out to me in case you need any help in creating your Inleo account.
Final thoughts
On X one can reach out to a large audience and on inleo/hive one can start monetization immediately and that too for free.
Use the two platforms together and you can get the best of both web 2.0 that is X.com and web 3.0 that is Inleo & hive
All images that are not credited are taken from X.com dashboard