I got excited about being on X and running on a premium account, and so I was keen on learning more every day and scoring good numbers. For the first few weeks, I had really good stats on my X account, and it seemed like I was going to smash the goal for three months way earlier. Like a plane out of fuel, everything came crashing down, simply because my enthusiasm waned and I wasn't performing like I previously was.
What happened is that I didn't have the exact mindset that I needed to carry myself long-term, and I didn't have my account tailored to my interests. And, also, when the high numbers in my stats were no longer showing up as usual, it was all a little daunting to double up to catch up.
Usually, my impressions—the number of views I get on my posts or comments—are in the hundreds of thousands. With the right accounts to piggyback, one can garner thousands of impressions with comments—and that was where I was racking up impressions. When that wasn't happening much recently and I wasn't making X posts (tweets), the numbers started to plummet quickly. Then, I was no longer doing as much as I should. I came back around eventually, but with a different approach to growing my account.
The goals are still in place, of course. I am just doing things a bit differently from now as a way of being more intentional about my growth on X.
The first goal is to be an influencer for Hive on web2 platforms like X to promote our ecosystem and possibly have more people onboard somehow. The second is to get monetized on X, and that requires that I grow my account.
It would be much easier to promote Hive if I could become an influencer as an individual. And there are two ways to be monetized on X. One can either do so with "subscriptions" or "ad revenue sharing." Ad revenue sharing is the option I am focused on.
And to be eligible, I need to meet certain requirements:
- Subscribe to Premium.
- Have at least 5M impressions on my posts within the last 3 months.
- Have at least 500 followers.
Now you see why I am chasing impressions and trying to rack them up quickly. Another thing to worry about now is having at least 500 followers, because I have only about half of that at this moment, 230.
Rather than just make comments that would have a lot of views, I am not trying to keep putting out content as regularly as I can. For now, I do not have exactly what I need to offer what I'd like—and that would take some time—so for now I am sticking to sharing about random thoughts that are intentional and thoughtful, or basically anything "worth consuming."
I try to construct them in a way that people will find it seamless and natural to respond to since they are mostly short-form content for now. And, for the sake of interacting with people and getting them interested in me and my content with a possible follow, I do my best to give top-notch engagement on their comments on my tweets. And then I try to respond to them all, no matter how long it takes.
In the last seven days, I was able to gain about 20K impressions. That's way lower than I am used to getting, but I only just came back after a while, so it's all good. On the bright side, I have a very good engagement rate this time. This means that I have a lot more engagements than impressions. Although the more impressions I gain, the less this number becomes.
Over all, I earned over 131K impressions in the last 28 days. From the graph, it has been more of an ON/OFF thing for me lately. I think I can do better in the next 28 days for way better-looking stats.
My most impressive tweet in the last seven days is one that I made about four days ago. I earned 580 impressions on that one, and I got way more replies than I was used to.
To do much better, I am actively working on streamlining the kind of content that I find so that it will be much more interesting to show up regularly and engage. And also, I am going to keep posting regularly to keep building.