Are you sharing your Hive content on social media?
If you are not, you are missing out on a big opportunity to help "onboard the masses". Granted most of us don't have enough reach on Twitter and other social media to really onboard thousands of users but collectively we have a lot of reach.
We won't be able to do it though just tweeting using the #hive tag and shouting how much you love Hive.
No one wants to be sold to, or told what to do.
Casual conversation and sharing content that is interesting is a great way to get people's attention. If you follow me on Twitter (
You will also notice when I tweet I always use related tags in addition to #hive. In fact, the more popular the tag, the greater your reach. When I am writing about Crypto, I will frequently use tags like #btc, #bitcoin, #crypto, and #cryptonews so I can reach a lot more people outside of Hive. I really doubt there are many people sitting on Twitter watching the tag #hive. There are tons of people watching #crypto #cryptonews and other more mainstream tags.
For example, I recently just shared my 3D Printing post with the tags #3dprinting #hive, I could have done a bit more like #maker and #diy but I didn't think of it at the time.
Sometimes I'll do a Google search for popular Twitter tags, and there are a few websites that will show you trending Twitter tags right now, and I try to find one or two I might be able to work into my tweet. It does no good to tweet about something that doesn't relate to the tags you use, but many times you can find clever ones to work in.
This is a good site to use to find current popular tags. Using a trending tag effectively is very effective as well.
https://www.tweeplers.com/hashtags/?cc=WORLD
https://www.tweeplers.com/hashtags/?cc=US
You can see today is heavily focused on politics and would be more difficult to work in, depending on your content is worth checking once and a while.
Also keep an eye on what's trending, you can see it on the bottom right. These tags are really popular and can give you a lot more visibility, but are typically difficult to work in.
I don't write about politics, so right now it's difficult to work in trending tags, but you can easily come up with tags that have a lot of traffic. You can also use Twitter's tag insight to find good tags that have a lot of traffic.
In some cases it will even help you find trending tags.
For really currently hot tags, you can even see how active they are right now.
Good use of tagging can give a Twitter account with even no followers a lot more reach.
I used to use Twitter a lot before Steem, never before have I been able to have conversations with Rock Stars, Actors, Politicians, even John McAffee as casual as leaving a comment on Hive.
Twitter may be centralized, it may be evil, they may censor you, but it is a extremely freaking effective tool. You would be crazy not to take advantage of that tool to achieve your goals.
If you haven't already, set up a Twitter account, set up a Reddit account, use it to share your content with others, use it to raise awareness of Hive, but do in a fashion doesn't sound like a cat in heat.
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