Thank you for the insight here @ddrfr33k. Curious as why that Tsu site closed down ?? Btw, Following you and look forward to some more good content in the future :)
Thank you for the insight here @ddrfr33k. Curious as why that Tsu site closed down ?? Btw, Following you and look forward to some more good content in the future :)
I just realized I never replied to this post! Sorry about that!
I first heard about Tsu when facebook started blocking links to the site in October of 2015. Tsu had been around for almost a year at that point, and the business news outlets picked up this story because it looked like Facebook was blocking a competitor on the grounds of spam (turns out there were a whole lot of bots based out of Pakistan that were also flooding every social network they were on with tsu links). But Facebook wasn't the only site blocking them. I also found out that DeviantArt would block links to Tsu, as well.
The other issue they ran into was advertising. While they managed to pick up over 100 million users in about 2 years, how many of them would you imagine were running ad blocking software? Quite a few, I'd wager! That cut into their bottom line. They couldn't sustain themselves off of ad revenue. That was the final nail in Tsu's coffin.