@x-rain 1055 likes, reposts, comments, shares -> 70 $HIVE for 🥇
@theworldaroundme 159 likes, reposts, comments, shares -> 50 $HIVE for 🥈
@neotopher 154 likes, reposts, comments, shares -> 40 $HIVE for 🥉
@ladytruckview 67 likes, reposts, comments, shares -> 25 $HIVE for 4️⃣
@davideownzall is on holidays
@arsky perhaps, missed the deadline

Our total team engagement score is 1,435 this week! Congrats, everyone! 😎

Not the best week from the point of the team score, but some of us had good progress as for the subscriber count: @theworldaroundme has 120 followers on her threads.com/@worlddigestjournal and @arsky 78 subs on threads.com/@savedintheframe after 3 weeks (if I am correct). I also saw good progress on my new Threads blog - it is 10 days old, and had one popular post that brought 32 followers (from 0), which is an awesome signal that the blog's concept works (compared to what I had on my cat Threads).

But the handle za7gorami is old and connected to my old IG - from the times when I had a blog "Beyond the seven mountains" about traveling in Georgia (in Russian). There is a big Russian-speaking audience on Threads, significantly from the Stans, especially Kazakhstan.

Although sort of related to traveling, my viral-ish post provoked people to talk about how awful India is. 😄 A 5-word comment saying "India is my worst fear" racked up 419 likes. 😁

But behind these numbers, there is a discovery I was searching for a long while...

The thing is I got tired of postcardish-style travelogues - I did it in the 2010s, and don't enjoy it anymore. A photographer's diary style (like my travelogue on Hive) won't work - it's too introverted, too self-focused for an engagement-centered social media platform like Threads.

So I was wondering what to post from my slow travels?

Then, I received a couple of comments saying, "I've read all your replies - they are smart and humorous". Okay, that was great praise, but I then thought "why would somebody read my replies, all of them, like, 70+ of them?" I am not a celebrity, then why? And I realized what people need: people often miss a connection to humans. People even don't call each other anymore - only chatting. And then they feel bored and lonely and start reading someone's replies on social media, missing better life and human warmth.

So that's what I realized: I should shape posts from my travels to make them deliver a human connection to guys commuting or lying in bed, procrastinating, feeling isolated. How? I will try to figure out the tone, but it's good to know what you offer: not beautiful pictures from travels, not shock content, but an opportunity to connect to you and people in the comments of your posts. Saying anything from the bottom of your heart with a drop of "wow" effect might be good.

Please share your thoughts and theories in the comments! Let's learn from each other!

If you haven't yet joined...

Anybody can enter the contest by posting stats of their four most popular Threads posts and 1 Threads comment below another Hiver's Threads post - check out (the details here). We don't share Hive links on Threads, but trying to grow our Threads skill and following.

Here is an example of an entry to the contest.

I know that doesn't sound enough clear if you are completely new to this contest.... If so and you want try entering the contest, just ask me anything in the comments.

The Rules

1 Hiver = 1 entry to this contest
1 Hiver can have up to 3 Threads blogs
Your total engagement count (a total number of comments, likes, reposts, shares) must be 30 or more to be eligible for the prizes.
Your Threads posts and comments mustn't be older than 11 days to be eligible.