Steemit: New Social Media Platform Which Pays You to Post

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A new social media platform where everyone gets paid to post online, has been released in beta. In the age of multiple social media platforms, many of them entrenched players, how will new users react to Steemit?

The concept
Steemit is powered by blockchain technology and uses a new cryptocurrency to reward users who upload articles, images, commentary, etc.
Other ways users can get paid is through sourcing and up-voting popular content. The earlier a person up-votes a post that becomes popular, the more is the reward.

How is multiple account creation prevented?
One of the banes of rewarding users for posting is that people try to game the system by creating multiple accounts.
These accounts can be used to post/vote multiple times and thereby manipulate the popularity of posts.
Steemit tries to control this by requiring users to register through their Facebook accounts.
Steemit is a content aggregator that rewards users in forms of a new cryptocurrency. Depending on the quality and popularity of a post, or how early a post is upvoted on, users are paid in forms of Steem. Although Steemit may be the most sophisticated and thought-through system to date, the concept of rewarding users for their posts is not entirely new. As early as 2014, sites such as Bubblews and Bonzo Me came out with the idea of paying users for generating content.

These sites used Paypal to make payments. Bubblews closed down in November 2015.

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