Not that this Royal needs any more riches added to his country’s coffers, this month, Roi Du Mohammed VI, His Majesty the King of Morocco selected Tsu as a viable social network for communicating to the world. And not only did his entourage follow in lock-step, the Monarch has amassed almost 30,000 followers in a little over two weeks.
Tsu (pronounced Sue) is one of the very first social networks to pay its users, and differing from some of others that followed, it is the only one to pay out 90% of its ad revenues in the form of royalties on a daily basis. (For details pertaining to the algorithm that goes into Tsu’s monetary business model, see my previous post, titled, “Is The New Social Network Tsu An MLM?”)
The New York-headquartered social network has beend appealing to a growing number of Moroccan users, but with the King’s sign-up, he was largely responsible for moving his country’s Tsu user percentage from 10.4% to 15.1% in about 17 days. He not only moved Morocco up to second place, comfortabley under the The United States at 17.1%, he actually pushed Japan down to 3rd place (8.8%), a ranking they had held previously, since the launch of Tsu on October 20, 2014.
With the the King arriving as Tsu’s 1,772,659th member, the network soon scaled to 2 million users in just 74 days, a feat that is significant in the social media world (since it took Facebook over 10 months to reach 1 million back in the day.)
With numbers that are swelling around the King’s arrival, 3 millions users will most likely be achieved by early February.
Coupled with this exponential growth, Tsu’s Alexa rating improves daily, moving below 2000 where it was before the King’s arrival, to its current spot of 1982 (as of this post.)
Other celebrities (aka tsucelebs) who have joined Tsu, include William Shatner, LeeAnn Rimes, Mario Lopez, 50 Cent and NBA star Carmelo Anthony. As we’ve seen with Twitter and Facebook, celebrity users more than often help to put a new social platform on the map, and CEO Sebastian Sobczak hopes that is the case with the King’s arrival.
Since the prestige of celebrities attract a lot of new followers to any network — in the case of Tsu, where users are actually paid for the content they share — the funds raised by these individuals are normally donated to charities.
This is also the case for Tsu’s average user, if they choose. All member have the opportunity to donate to any charity registered with Tsu. Folks can contribute as little as $1 (and if one likes, on upwards of the total balance of one’s Tsu bank account) and its a seamless process that can be activated in real-time, by simply using the network’s peer-to-peer transfer feature.
It’s interesting to note that the King is also an active user. Today when I posted a comment that extended a welcome to His Majesty, he was quick to respond with a LIKE. How’s that for getting the ‘royal treatment?’
So the King has landed in the Land of Tsu – and if his following of 2.2 million likes on Facebook is any indication of how many additional Moroccans and Arabs will follow, Tsu’s positioned well to continue to grow exponentially. Long live the King and all the Kings that follow!
