Leo openly mock Hive onboarding.
They also used to mock Hive price.

They have egg on their face now because they..

• haven't grown their userbase much
• have lost token value
• won't put money into marketing

You leave Leo where they are.

warlordbutterfly here is onto something. I think his work is actually showing that marketing can do it's job. The signup however is in need of improvements.

Hive account@lordbutterfly I would suggest a promo code that users can paste into their first post (intro post) to then track your CVR. Even get Hive account@acidyo to track that with his love sniper riffle scope.

This marketing proposal has legs!

What it needs now is effort from all angles! With Twitter I would say run a lottery. There's got to be at least one philanthropist whale that is willing to give a good prize to the winner of a sign up initiative on Twitter.... Hey why not call it:

TWITTER MADNESS! - 100,000 HIVE POOL PRIZE. Conditional. Like: prizes drawn once 100,000 sign ups achieved.

No doubt many will try to game it but as you said Twitter is about recognition. To have a prized campaign on there would definitely generate interest and hype.

HIVE NEEDS USERS!
HIVE NEEDS INNOVATIVE WAYS TO ACQUIRE THAT TOO.

OLD WAYS GO NO WAYS.

(sorry Hive account@bozz for comment hijack)