SteemTipper is Taking Off! 🚀 Tip STEEM Easily and Safely on Twitter and Social Media Platforms with No Fees

in #steem6 years ago (edited)

We are SO excited to announce the launch of SteemTipper: it's a brand new free service which allows you to tip users on other social media platforms with STEEM! It's fast, it's easy, and it's a great way to get people involved with STEEM.

Some of you may have noticed we've been even more busy this week than usual. We've been crunching like crazy to bring this service to life, and to lay the groundwork to continue expanding it and making it better over the coming weeks. There are no words for how excited @crimsonclad and I are about launching SteemTipper!

You can start tipping with STEEM on Twitter right now. The person you send to doesn't even need a STEEM account to receive a tip and start tipping themselves!

We decided to launch with Twitter as our introductory platform to make sure that the system is bulletproof before we begin integrating the others we've been getting ready. Steem.Chat integration is already in the works, with Reddit and Telegram after that. Anywhere you might interact with crypto enthusiasts, we'll be working to make SteemTipper a part of your social toolbox.

Head over to SteemTipper.com to learn more, deposit to your tipping balance, and start sending out little gifts of STEEM right away by tweeting a command that alerts the tipping bot.

 

Here's what a SteemTipper tweet looks like:

@steemtipper tip @exampleuser 0.5 check out STEEM!


You must use this format - call the SteemTipper bot by mentioning it, followed by a command to tip the person you are sending to and the amount of STEEM you would like to send.

You must include "@steemtipper tip @receiver [amount]" but adding a message on the end is optional.

How does SteemTipper work? Is it safe?

 
The SteemTipper service connects your Twitter account with an API, and creates deposit and withdrawal links using SteemConnect. This means we never collect or store your keys or passwords. SteemTipper works like a holding tank for your balance, making it instantly available to you from your social media services without having to use your STEEM wallet or keys to set up a transfer. We have daily limits in place and a 24 hour period to cancel pending withdrawals to STEEM accounts.

Tipping sounds AWESOME! What should I use it for?

 
Just like on Steemit and other interfaces to the STEEM blockchain, social media is all about engagement. If someone helps you out, contributes to discussion, or has a great idea, you can send them a tip to let them know you appreciate them! Small payments, challenge rewards, or even a way to get someone interested in STEEM who's never heard of it: there are a ton of great uses for SteemTipper. In fact, someone who has been tipped can claim the balance, and use it to start tipping with — no STEEM account necessary! If you tip someone and they do not claim the balance in seven days, the tip is automatically credited right back to your SteemTipper balance. Our service isn't made for transfering large sums (sorry, no money laundering,) but gives you a way to safely complete a number of small transactions while browsing, without having to log in to your wallet with your active key every time.

Thank you again from the bottom of our hearts for supporting us by voting our witness and using our services like SteemTipper and Steem.Chat.

 
We put so much of ourselves and our rewards from the platform back into intiatives like this, but we never forget that they are all made possible because the community supports us in doing so. At the end of the day, we are often tired, but we are always grateful.

Feel free to contact myself, @FollowBTCNews, or @crimsonclad with any questions, comments, or concerns you may have. Your feedback will help us shape the future of SteemTipper as we bring it to many new social media platforms. We've done a lot of testing, but this service is BRAND NEW, so we know we're likely going to have a hiccup or two as we get rolling. We're here to help.

What are you waiting for? Get tipping!

 
Lots of love, from me and Crim. (Now we're off to grab some HUGE cups of coffee, and maybe a little bit of cake to celebrate!)


I'm Jeff, and I'm @followbtcnews.
I'm a top 20 witness, along with my project partner @crimsonclad. Feel free to reach out to us on Steem.chat or Discord any time! If we haven't earned your vote yet, please take some time to look at our tools and our work. We hope you decide to place a witness vote for followbtcnews by clicking here
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Great work. Steem will be more popular!

this is amazing!

thanks! we're pretty stoked for a lot of the implications as we branch out from here...

this is excellent, to massively share this good news on the networks. the community needed this innovation ... increasingly unstable. Steem

Awesome news @followbtcnews and @crimsonclad Hugz. Great to see this new application of the blockchain distributed freely to the community. We're also working on a wordpress plugin for steemit that allows people to send/receive donations easily and free.
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As an avid twitter user with a huge audience I can't wait to try steemtipper out. It's Sooo HARD to bring them over because the sign up process isn't fast and seamless. Hopefully now people have a incentive to wait for steemit to open them an account :) As always, you guys fuckin' ROCK!

even better: by collecting up tips, a traditional social media user could actually EARN enough to fund an account with one of the resources below- no waiting, pre-networking done, and a sense of ownership and value instilled into the account stemming from having explored the community before joining up!

Yes that is genius. Let's see if someone can game the system though. Eyes open and (to community) don't be afraid of down voting abusive behavior.

@justinadams I really look forward to the wordpress plugin. Please keep me in the loop so I can try it when it's ready :)

Have you heard of steempress? @omitaylor. I already have steempress on my blog

Yes, I have seen several plugins. But I like to see all the plugins built for WP. I'm a big user of WP. What's your blog?

my blog is https:/tolusefrancis.com

Whaaaaaat this is a game changer!!!
This is what we all needed right now!
Mass adoption can easily be induced by this service!

Congrats and thank you guys!

thank YOU~ can't wait until we start spreading it across a ton of platforms!

This is exactly why I got you voted as a witness. Keep up the good work and further separate @followbtcnews from other witnesses.

thanks very much for the support~ It's been quite the road to travel to be able to get projects like this out, but it feels so good! a witness is nothing without voters who trust them. :)

This is absolutely great idea to promote steem in other social media user esp the facebook and twitter.

I just have one stupid question: If I tipped someone, lets say in the twitter, but unfortunately he has not familiar with crypto esp steem and he has no any crypto wallet or whatever - where will my tip go or where it will be saved if ever he accepted it?

The tip is held in his SteemTipper balance, which is tied to his social media account. If he doesn't log in with his account in seven days, the tip is credited right back to your balance instead. If he does log in but has no crypto wallets, that doesn't matter either... He can use his balance to send tips himself. If he wants to withdraw his tip balance, then he'll need to get a STEEM account. We're looking into other ways to withdraw, but to start, he can participate/collect/tip without any special accounts other than his social media.

BOOM!! What a post and project, congrats Crim and Jeff on all your work! I'm here thanks to the power nudge from @omitaylor and so very happy to be catching up on such an awesome new tool! :)

Something else this can help mass introduce is tax non-compliance. When everyone is receiving Steem on Twitter, FB, etc and nobody knows what to do about taxes, they all have to hire accountants... the backlog will be enormous and extremely disruptive.

Love this. Great implication.

crypto in general already pulled this off.

Let's make this a slam dunk shall we? We're still a long way off from mass adoption with less than 1% of the population having crypto world wide. If we all start giving tips to about 10 other individuals we know, then we can bring that number up to 700 million people who will be in tax non-compliance.

I love that thought!
I can't wait to build up enough to actually give more than a fraction of a penny! I can not imagine the enjoyment it will be.
And best of all, uncle Sam or some giant corporation has nothing to do with it!

Is this why STEEM is pumping so hard?

STEEM was listed on the Chinese Huobi exchange today. This new tool could be another reason. This is a great way to use STEEM!

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