Making companies more approachable, crypto-based media platforms are significantly changing income prospects. Leaving digital footprints shows what kind of brand you are in the form of social media posts. Social media has become a launch pad in marketing tactics, thus influencing cryptocurrency prices greatly. On the other hand, decentralized social platforms aim to empower the creators by providing ownership and monetization opportunities. Platforms like Blockchain, Torum, Minds, Dtube, Deso, Flote, and Ignite are all crypto-based, typically having a decentralized control emphasizing the sense of independence and free speech. With speed, decentralization, and security as the primary objective, these platforms allow users to livestream and publish audio, video, and photos without censorship and ambiguous community standards, thus earning massive popularity among users.
Social media trends have a major impact on influencing investors’ behavior, thus leading to a rise or fall in the crypto world. Social media platforms like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter provide self-sufficient knowledge about crypto through videos and post casts. Trending stories influence price fluctuations in the crypto world; thus, media has great potential to affect crypto prices both positively and negatively. Reddit has even started hitting up publications and social media channels related to the crypto world, thus intensely targeting crypto news scrawlers. Social media trends also affect crypto by impacting investors’ moods and price rises and falls. A tweet by Elon Musk and a Tiktok trend upgraded Dogecoin from a joke to one of the top ten coins.
Being a highly volatile sector, crypto trends, price fluctuations, and updates through tech analysis are the most demanded information, especially by traders and investors. Social media plays a significant role here, as many communities and channels constantly refresh and update their crypto-related data according to the latest trends. Avoid total reliance on these sources for crypto-related trends and news, as sometimes fake news can cause financial losses and data breaches. Be vigilant and active on social media to prevent any scams and losses.
In the next post, we’ll find out how blockchain technology, cryptocurrency, and social media are deeply connected and how these are transforming the creator economy.
In the previous section, we covered how a single tweet can affect crypto prices and how social media educates the masses. This section will discover how decentralized social media platforms provide a new and safe setup for content creators and industry giants. Also, we’ll look at crypto-based social media platforms.
Social media is constantly driving the masses’ interest in cryptocurrency and blockchain. Blockchain technology is aimed at providing decentralized social media platforms where you can post uncensored content. Other than that, these platforms enable content creators and influencers to deposit tokens into small contracts, earn passive income as digital money, and also allow instant transactions. Doesn’t it feel good to hear? The most exciting part is a creator can leverage his content by creating a personalized token as an elite-level membership pass. Similarly, as a unique source of community building, creators and fans can exchange value in a very secure environment, thus significantly revolutionizing the way you interact. This decentralized digital world provides a thorough market for content creators, greatly remodeling their economy.
Blockchain is a groundbreaking technology that impacts finance, music, media, and food industries through crypto-based social media platforms. Major crypto market giants like Facebook, PayPal, Google, and Apple are making the concept easy to understand, as they are investing hefty sums in various media channels to explain it. For enhanced brand loyalty and marketing services, some blockchain-based companies use social media to conduct webinars. You may be surprised that crypto-based communities like Hive, Honest, Bitfinex and Mamby provide a hefty reward in the form of Bitcoin to their participants for providing credible information about crypto, thus degrading any fake news.
Torum, a blend of Facebook and Twitter, is a rebellious SocialFi (Social, DEFI, NFT) Metaverse ecosystem. Search options and LinkedIn-like capabilities for network building, allowing communication with other businesses, make it a goal-oriented intimate forum. Similarly, Minds is an excellent alternative to Twitter in reclaiming informational power from corporations. The best thing is you receive tokens on every upload or interaction with other businesses. This platform does not scan your data for adverting purposes, thus proclaiming the new definition of privacy. DTUBE is an alternative to YouTube providing the exact results according to your queries and functioning as a decentralized search engine. The best thing is that it does not support ads, and earning is not restricted to the creator part, but consumers can also earn. Ignite is a decentralized blogging website, while Flote is a social networking platform providing freedom of speech.
I hope this has been helpful and that you can begin to engage with the exciting alternatives.
Hussam Abdulkhaleq is Senior Account Manager at Cicero & Bernay Communication Consultancy, an independent PR agency headquartered in Dubai offering new-age public relations consultancy to the UAE and across the MENA region. | www.cbpr.me