Belonging & Relationships
Designing for belonging, trust, emotional connection, shared identity, and members becoming insiders rather than an audience.
48%
Best tweets about Community Building
50 Best Tweets About Community Building (2026)
Discover the best tweets about community building, covering belonging, engagement, events, moderation, member value, retention, and community-led growth.
Practical community design, member value, rituals, engagement, moderation, retention, operations, and measurable community outcomes.
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Original Xholic analysis
What 50 top Community Building posts reveal
Community Building discourse focuses on belonging, member contribution, practical value, and operating discipline. Posts commonly recommend recognition, roles, rituals, documentation, and moderation, while disagreeing on distribution sequencing and the role of incentives. In the supplied analytics, announcements have the highest format median, and text posts have a slightly higher median score than posts with media.
- Dominant tone
- Positive
- Median score
- 9.73
- Leading format
- Opinion
- Recent posts
- 34%
66% of posts
All-time engagement
38% of posts
Published in 90 days
Conversation map
The themes creators return to
Member Contribution & Ownership
Turning members into contributors, champions, ambassadors, creators, and autonomous co-owners with meaningful roles.
34%
Retention, Rituals & Engagement
Retention through rituals, recurring touchpoints, fun, recognition, small wins, and sustained community energy.
30%
Member Value & Utility
Member value through utility, learning, opportunities, mutual support, access, accountability, and shared problem-solving.
26%
Distribution & Growth
Community acquisition, distribution, outreach, public presence, partnerships, and the sequencing of audience growth before retention.
24%
Operations & Governance
Community operations: onboarding, documentation, moderation, rules, culture protection, team coordination, and scalable systems.
24%
Incentives & Recognition
Incentives, contributor reputation, rewards, revenue sharing, and avoiding shallow giveaway- or token-driven participation.
10%
Founder Communication & Trust},{
Founder visibility, responsive communication, transparency, expectation-setting, and trust during difficult or quiet periods.
6%
Tone and stance
Sentiment Positive leads
Author posture Supportive leads
Performance benchmark
- Median likes
- 37
- Median reposts
- 2
- Median replies
- 9
- Median views
- 1.4K
Posts with media make up 50% of this collection. Their median all-time score is 9.25, compared with 10.6 for text-only posts.
Format mix
- Opinion 38% · score 9.80
- List 26% · score 13.1
- Announcement 12% · score 77.9
- Story 12% · score 3.56
Consensus and debate
Where creators agree, and where they do not
Shared view
Recognition is presented as a route to belonging
Multiple posts advocate a relational sequence: notice members, help them, invite contribution, and recognize visible impact. They frame these practices as ways to move people from followers or lurkers toward advocacy and ownership.
Shared view
Retention is framed as rituals plus operating discipline
Posts on retention emphasize recurring rituals, meaningful roles, rules, founder presence, documentation, and culture protection. They treat keeping an engaged community as a continuing operating responsibility rather than only an acquisition goal.
Shared view
Participation is framed as member ownership
The posts describe participation in different forms—from collecting and competing to creating content, tools, or experiences—and argue that roles and visible contribution can distribute activity beyond the core team.
Shared view
Utility gives members a reason to return
Practical value is a recurring theme: education, opportunities, feedback, accountability groups, and shared problem-solving are presented as reasons for members to return beyond announcements or giveaways.
Open debate
Distribution-first versus foundation-first sequencing
One view says distribution must come first because people need to enter before a community can form. Other posts emphasize building depth with early believers, active founder involvement, and relationship quality before larger campaigns.
Open debate
Incentives can align participation or attract transient engagement
Incentives divide the posts: one advocates substantial revenue sharing, while others warn that token promises or giveaway-led participation can be shallow and temporary.
Open debate
Platform simplification versus community continuity
X presents its shift from Communities to group-chat links as simplification with a two-week migration path. A user argues that a 350-member chat limit makes this impractical for a 255K-member community.
What performs
Patterns behind standout posts
Outliers span product news and practical community design
The five supplied outliers cover an X product announcement, a founder checklist, relationship-led marketing, a community-engagement case study, and multi-path participation design. The product announcement has the highest supplied outlier score, at 1043.3.
Announcements lead the supplied format medians
Announcements have a supplied median all-time score of 77.89, above lists (13.055), opinions (9.797), stories (3.56), case studies (6.3), and questions (4.73).
Text has a higher supplied median score than media
Media appears in 50% of tweets, but the supplied text median all-time score is 10.571 versus 9.246 for media posts. In this set, text has the higher median score.
Statistical standouts
- View standout post 1 Score 1043.3 · 107.22× median
- View standout post 2 Score 157.8 · 16.22× median
- View standout post 3 Score 107.0 · 11× median
- View standout post 4 Score 97.6 · 10.03× median
- View standout post 5 Score 82.6 · 8.49× median
Creator landscape
Who shapes this conversation
The five most represented creators account for 20% of the selected posts.
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1. Kris Kashtanova
@icreatelife
2 posts
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2. Janet Machuka
@janetmachuka_
2 posts
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3. Javi🥥.eth
@jgonzalezferrer
2 posts
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4. kaito dan
@kaitodan
2 posts
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5. Marianne
@mariannehere
2 posts
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6. melissa 🇦🇷
@0xmelissa19
1 post
Operational guidance turns community values into practices
Practical posts recommend translating values into operations: document onboarding and rules, coordinate outreach, protect culture, recognize contributors, and maintain communication with members.
Stories frame belonging through mutual support
Personal stories and relationship-focused advice frame community around support, generosity, collaboration, and appreciation rather than follower counts or one-way broadcasting.
Reciprocity is presented as a repeatable growth habit
Several creators recommend consistent reciprocal behavior: responding to replies and DMs, visiting members’ feeds, sharing their work, and engaging genuinely over time.
How this analysis was made
Themes, sentiment, stance, and post format are classified per tweet. All counts, shares, medians, creator concentration, freshness, and performance comparisons are then calculated directly from the published snapshot.
Xholic's all-time score compares engagement while accounting for reach, post age, and creator consistency. It is used for relative comparisons within this collection.
This report analyzes the exact 50-post snapshot shown below. AI identifies editorial categories and drafts explanations; all statistics are calculated from the snapshot, and every narrative claim is checked against cited posts before publication.
Best Community Building tweets
Top Community Building tweets from 45 creators
Ranked 01–50
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@nikitabier ·
Today we're announcing two product changes for organizing communities on X: 1. XChat now supports joinable links for groupchats. Create a public link & share direct to Timeline. With support for 350 members per chat (and growing), Groupchat Links are the fastest way to bring people together on X. 2. Due to declining usage, we're deprecating X Communities on May 6. To migrate your Community's members, pin your groupchat link so people can join it over the next 2 weeks. This is part of our broader effort to simplify the experience on X. Make no mistake: we are investing heavily in niche communities with the launch of Custom Timelines—and much more to come.
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@CrypSaf ·
If you are a community founder I advise you to focus on these things to build a great community culture: 1. Set the bar high for collabs and wins. Excellence attracts excellence, mid attracts mid. 2. Acquiring members is easy. Keeping them is the real game. 3. Make it fun. No one sticks around a community that feels like a job. 4. Build it scalable & sustainable; hype dies, systems don't. 5. It has to be bigger than you. Not with your name. If it dies when you leave, you built a group chat, not a community. 6. Protect your culture violently; one toxic member costs you ten good ones. 7. Reward contributors, not grinders or chasers. 8. Create rituals, weekly calls, traditions, inside jokes. That's what makes people stay. 9. Your most loyal members are your best recruiters. Treat them like it. 10. If someone called Pucci wants to join, never invite him. Big mistake. 11. Be present. Communities feel when the founder checks out & read messages. 12. If someone's PFP is an anime girl, careful 3x. 13. Build systems, not dependency; if you disappear for a week, it should still run. 14. Give people roles and ownership. People fight for what they helped build. 15. Every community has that one guy who only shows up for giveaways. Deal with him. 16. If a member says "I'm not here for the money," they're 100% here for the money. 17. Purge regularly. A smaller engaged community beats a large dead one every time. 18. The person who types the most in general chat is either your MVP or needs to go outside. Sometimes both. 19. The moment someone says "this community is like family", congrats, you made it. Or they're about to ask for a loan ... 20. Document everything, onboarding, rules, culture, SOPs, to save your time later. 21. Celebrate wins publicly, handle problems privately.
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@0xmelissa19 ·
A while ago I noticed something interesting in Web3. Two projects launched around the same time. Similar quality. Similar funding level. Similar amount of hype. But months later, one community was still active while the other became completely quiet. And honestly? The difference was not better marketing graphics. Not bigger influencers. Not even better technology. It was how they made people feel. The first project treated marketing like broadcasting. Post announcement. Drop partnership. Run giveaway. Repeat. The second project treated marketing like relationship building. They remembered community members. Quoted users often. Turned feedback into conversations. Made people feel involved in the journey. And slowly, something happened: The community stopped acting like an audience… And started acting like insiders. That changed how I started looking at Web3 marketing completely. Because people don’t stay loyal to projects just because of information. They stay because of emotional connection. One thing I learned from that experience is this: Good marketing gives updates. Great marketing creates attachment. And attachment usually comes from small things: • Consistency • Familiarity • Shared jokes • Community recognition • Honest communication during bad moments too That last part matters a lot. Because many projects know how to market during hype. Very few know how to communicate during quiet periods without disappearing. Another thing I noticed: The strongest communities usually feel human. Not overly polished. Not robotic. Not constantly trying to “sell.” Just real enough for people to trust. And honestly, that changed my own approach too. Now when thinking about campaigns or growth, I ask: “How do we make people feel part of this story?” Because once people emotionally connect to a project… Marketing becomes easier. The community starts carrying the narrative for you. And that’s when growth becomes powerful. What’s one Web3 project/community that genuinely made you feel included? 👇
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@TubeAIYT ·
Dead time between uploads is killing your YouTube channel. I was stuck at the same views for 2 months. Posted 2x/week but went silent in between. So I started posting in the community tab daily: - Poll before each upload - Hot take between videos - Behind the scenes photo Views jumped 28% in 6 weeks. YouTube reads community engagement as proof your audience is active and pushes your videos harder. Start using community tabs.
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@ssheyii ·
Hello CMs Just few hours into handling collab Sad to see we are still doing this in 2026. Let’s look at what keeps happening. Outreach problems - CMs reaching out from inactive communities - No research at all about the project before messaging (even little) - No patience at all (pinging thrice in a day forgetting hundreds of Communities are also reaching out Here is a simple example. - Chain is clearly written as Base - Still seeing people submit Sol or Ethereum - The answer is literally in front of you That speaks something. - You did not read the form - You are not interested in the project - You just want the spot Another issue - Community coordination - 5 CMs from the same community filling the same form (all 5 CMs want a feedback or response, would have responded to 4 other communities if only 1 applied that way things are smooth for both party) - No internal coordination - Turning outreach into a race instead of structured communication Founders should fix this. CM management - Have a group chat or channel in your server for all CMs - Coordinate outreach there before anyone reaches out - Avoid duplicate requests Then there is the support side. Collaboration expectations - Not wanting to support at all is a no - Support can come in different forms Collab is not only taking Collab is give and take. Your community presence also matters. Community activity - Your community Twitter should reflect what is happening inside your server - Even if you do not tweet every week - At least show activity once a month or every two months If nothing reflects outside, it is hard to believe anything is happening inside. Then there is the professionalism side. Outreach etiquette - Do not spam - Do not cold call on Discord - Do not reach out through Snapchat or WhatsApp 😭 Stick to professional channels. We all want NFTs to come back. But the ecosystem only improves if everyone does their part. Professional mindset - Treat this like a real job - Respect people’s time - Read instructions before applying - Communicate properly with your team Let’s do this right. Would genuinely love to hear other perspectives on this. No one knows it all 👩🍳
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@jgonzalezferrer ·
Community tips I wish more founders understood 👇 A few things that matter more than most people think: • who you let in early • whether members have a real role • whether there are rituals worth returning for • what behavior gets rewarded • whether you protect quality when the community starts growing
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@signulll ·
wherever you go building real community takes 12 months min, & that’s the optimistic case. but once upon a time community was simply a byproduct of other constraints (proximity, scarcity, shared necessity, etc.) & capitalism/modern life optimized all those constraints away. now it has to be pursued as an end, which is a much harder ask cuz intentional community building often reads as needy in a way that incidental community building never did.
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@DontDiisturb ·
The future of online communities will need better ways to recognize contributors. People who consistently support ecosystems, create value, and participate meaningfully deserve more than just temporary attention. @NucleusCodes is exploring how reputation can capture these deeper signals. Building trust starts with understanding contribution.
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@hooeem ·
1: you can build almost any idea now 2: the value is in how you distribute it 3: I believe community is how you win 4: you need to learn and share in public 5: you need to build your network 6: you create a dope idea 7: you incentivise your community 8: you give rev share to them, a lot 9: this lets them earn from your brand 10: this furthers your distribution channel 11: you have now combined your network with all of their networks 12: the rev share is great enough that they don’t care about making their own version 13: you create a strong incentivised community around your idea and product 14: you repeat 15: you watch you and your community get rich together as your idea and product becomes the go to product out of the thousands that were created 👍 job done, you can now relax on the beach and sip on some ice cold beers!
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@icreatelife ·
People often ask me how I deal with online harassment because of my AI focused work as I've been doing it for a while now. When I was a kid I was brutally bullied. I was very shy but needed to be on stage to show my computer science project, which seemed impossible, so one of my teachers recommended to join theatre club to improve my public speaking and being less afraid of stage. Theatre club was just like any other place. Few students didn't like me and as I seemed like an easy pray (shy, following the rules) they started harassing me right away. I kept coming but at some point I was so ready to give up when something happened that changed my whole life. That made me who I am and made it possible to do what I love doing, to do AI when it wasn't popular, to build a community on X (Twitter back then). The teacher of theatre club seeing all the harassment said: "Look around the room. Do you see anyone who supports you? You only need one person". I was so upset that I said: "No". The teacher said: "Look harder. There's at least one person". After that class I realized there was one girl who always said "hello" and "good bye" and she was as quit and shy as me. That day I gathered all my courage and talked to her at the end of the class. It was so strange what she told me. The garden of roses. She told me a story how there's a garden of roses and I only focus on the thorns. It's easy to focus on those but there're also amazing roses all around. So I looked harder and found more friends in that theatre club. By the end of the term, I gained a group of friends way bigger than those two or three people who disliked me. That's exactly what you need to do if anyone harrasses you in AI community. Find a group that genuinely support you. Support them, become amazing friends and collaborators. You'll be so busy doing what you love that you'll forget about the thorns and eventually they'll leave you alone because fire dies without fuel. Be well, my friends. Remember you're not alone. At least 117,000 people who follow me all love AI and use it to tell their stories. * written by a human (who loves AI)
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@Dr_Picoin ·
I watched the recorded video by Interlink’s CEO, Kenneth Timmering @KTimmering. Like many others, I was expecting a live session with a Q&A, but it turned out to be pre-recorded. Unfortunately, there was no new information for the community, as everything mentioned had already been announced previously. Naturally, the community feels somewhat disappointed, especially since expectations were very high. That said, credit should be given where it is due: ■ Interlink has achieved a great deal within just one year, growing to over 5 million users, launching a native Interlink wallet, and delivering the Interlink exchange. ■ The core team has demonstrated strong execution speed, delivering where many other crypto projects struggle or fail. ■ From my experience, the core team is highly engaged and actively responds to questions on X. Interlink ambassadors are also very supportive. This level of accessibility and engagement is rare in the crypto space. ■ The project has already succeeded in forming partnerships with Public Interlink Token Treasury companies, including a U.S.-based company, New to The Street. New to The Street is a business television and digital media platform that showcases emerging and established companies across multiple industries. Having New to The Street as an Interlink treasury company provides access to major U.S. financial media networks and influencers in the U.S. financial industry, which is a significant opportunity for Interlink. I have followed many crypto projects over the years, and Interlink stands out for its speed of delivery and community engagement. This deserves recognition and applause. That said, I sincerely hope the Interlink Core Team and CEO take community feedback on board and provide a clearer roadmap, along with further clarification on the following points: 1. The expected listing timeline for the Interlink token. 2. What HCS score level is required to verify $ITLG tokens, and how specific HCS score ranges translate into the number of verified $ITLG. 3. Whether verified $ITLG converts directly into $ITL, or if 1 verified $ITLG equals 1 $ITL. 4. When the Interlink blockchain will become publicly accessible for tracking live on-chain activity. Clear communication on these points would go a long way in rebuilding confidence and aligning expectations within the community. https://t.co/NNy6FD8Y4p @inter_link @kv_interlink @reina_itl @KTimmering
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@Yusi0x ·
I’ve watched crypto project's communities grow, break, and disappear more times than I can count. Let me make this very simple. Think of a Web3 project like a small village. If the village is going to survive, it needs three things. Not ten. Not twenty. Just three strong pillars holding everything up. First pillar: Trust Imagine you tell a child you’ll come back with food, but you never return. Next time, they won’t believe you. That’s how communities work. If founders overpromise, stay silent, or disappear, the community slowly loses faith. And once trust is broken, no marketing can fix it. Trust is built by showing up, speaking clearly, and doing what you said you would do. Second pillar: Structure Now imagine a classroom with no teacher. Everyone shouting. No rules. No direction. That is what most Telegram groups look like. Structure means: Clear moderators Clear rules Clear communication People should know where to ask, what to do, and how to contribute. Without structure, even the best communities turn into noise. Third pillar: Energy This is the one many founders ignore. A community without energy is like a playground with no children playing. Silent chats No conversations No excitement Energy comes from daily engagement, small wins, recognition, and giving people reasons to participate. When energy is alive, people don’t just stay… they bring others. If you miss one of these pillars, the whole system becomes weak. No trust? People leave. No structure? Chaos takes over. No energy? Everything goes quiet. But when all three are strong, something different happens. Your community stops being just users. They become believers.
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@BigFloppaEth ·
Message to all founders of upcoming projects Most major projects are planning marketing budget only for upcoming stage, hiring agencies and collab leads until mint day Yes, it's extremely hard to reach out to the best communities with only in-house team, so well-connected agencies and collab leads who works with this communities every day can provide excellent spot distribution But the core issue is that projects often try to save money and only sign contracts until mint day To survive in today's market a project needs to overcome first massive sell waves, and continue to build a community after them So if your hired team contract ends at mint day you instantly lose all connections with your partners It becomes incredibly hard to share updates and push the project, making it almost impossible to gather the support needed to survive those dumps That's exactly why your marketing budget should cover not just the pre-mint phase but also the post-mint, at least until the real community of holders will be formed
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@mariannehere ·
this post is going to change your entire marketing perspective, give me 3 minutes👇 the bear market is the best time to build community and here's exactly what that looks like in practice: >let the wrong people leave on their own the tourists and flippers are already heading for the exit the people still showing up are your real ones, treat them accordingly >go deeper with the people who stayed reply to every message start conversations, ask questions, remember names this is the season for relationship depth rather than crazy reach >steal other projects' community while they go quiet your competitors are pulling back on content and killing their engagement right now show up consistently and you will absorb the attention they're leaving on the table >ditch the announcements, have actual conversations a bear market community does not need hype it needs to feel like somewhere worth staying >find your future champions before the bull run does the person defending your project in someone else's server right now, find them that relationship is worth more than any influencer deal you'll pay for later >document everything like your next raise depends on it your engagement data, your active members, your response rates, the results you get, even the conversations you have the community you build now will be your biggest case study when the market turns the window is open but most projects won't touch this because it doesn't give them an instant dopamine hit & ego boost the gap you create in a bear market is almost impossible to close later
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@livingwithwill ·
One of the incredible gifts I’m grateful to experience working in this Blockchain/Crypto/Digital Asset/Web3/Internet Capital Markets/Whatever We’re Calling It these days Industry is our ability to build sovreign and autonomous communities on top of this novel technology Born through common interest these communities and movements also inherently mean different things to different people and that’s what makes them so compelling to build to me When people are free to build, to drift, to gather, and to move in permissionless ways, true magic happens People build their own Communities and their own Movements within the whole It makes room for anyone brave enough to show up as themselves to thrive Autonomous communities don’t rely on a single voice or a single hero, in fact I’ve noticed they thrive the most when driven by the Whole! The beauty to me exists when the people involved shape and weave their own lived experience and expertise into the fabric of the tapestry that becomes the Whole. And it’s limitlessly compounding potential in this way. There is no final form. Communities in this industry are unlike any other! They are forever evolving and expanding (just like the universe is fr) Anyways I could write on this all day but it’s 3AM so to any aspiring community builders looking for unsolicited advice here’s some food for thought if you read this far: The magic isn’t in controlling a community you are building The magic is in letting it become what it wants to become And help it to grow in the ways that you can 💛 Your boy, Will
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@seeksahib ·
"Build community" is the most repeated bad advice in Web3. you can't build a community when nobody's in the room yet. community is who stays. distribution is how they get there in the first place. most early projects have neither. they throw a party, forget to invite anyone, then wonder why it's quiet. you don't have a community problem. you have a "nobody knows you exist" problem. get people through the door first. that's distribution. then earn the ones worth keeping. that's community. in that order. it's always been that order.
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@coreyhainesco ·
I built a skill that designs community marketing strategy — platform selection, launch playbooks, engagement rituals, ambassador programs, and health metrics. You describe your product and audience, and it recommends the right platform, structures your launch plan with founding members, and builds engagement loops that sustain themselves. Most communities die because they treat members as an audience instead of contributors. This builds community-first, product-second. It's called /community-marketing and it's part of Marketing Skills — a free, open source collection of 40 marketing skills for AI agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex. npx skills add coreyhaines31/marketingskills
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@KyennMark ·
Building a community can be so annoying at the same time beneficial, and my point of view comes from “experience” firstly i start with this statement “people are so lazy” that’s why when a product makes things much easier for people they can pay for premium ( makes sense right ? ) please & please do not prioritise giveaways in your community always, this hurt me building my own community many times, focus on opportunities and education and to prove this statement correct, look at airdrop communities and compare the level at which they thrive, the reason falls back to exactly opportunity and education cause they want grow and not miss out on any update that comes up. folks i still very much like who really focused on this area for example: Teaona, Elvis, Melisa, righteousness, D3fi, Warrior (these ones from my region) and there are many more we haven’t talked about, but regardless the best thing you should also look at is getting people who are interested in learning and bringing more opportunities just like you also want to bring to that community, as much is given much is expected So as you try to educate and bring opportunities so they should do same.
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@Nefarii ·
Why Every Blockchain Ecosystem Needs a Creator Economy. Yesterday, I argued that Web3 doesn’t have a builder problem, it has a distribution problem. Today I’d like to take that one step further. If distribution is the missing layer, then our best shot at solving it is by building a true creator economy. Unfortunately, whenever people hear “creator economy” in Web3, they picture creator programs, content contests, KOLs farming impressions, or another SocialFi app rewarding engagement. That’s not a creator economy, it’s an incentive campaign as seen with what @base did with @baseapp months back. A real creator economy turns creators into the communication and distribution infrastructure of an ecosystem. Researchers, writers, designers, educators, hosts and community leaders all contribute to explaining what’s being built and why it matters. Every successful ecosystem, in Web3 or outside it, is built on five interconnected layers: builders, capital, creators, community and users. Most ecosystems spend almost all their resources strengthening the first two while assuming the last three will appear naturally, they don’t. Creators generate understanding, communities build trust, and users create demand. Remove one layer and the others weaken. Adoption isn’t created by technology alone, it’s created by the interaction between all five. Take @superteam as an example. Many see it as a builders’ community within @Solana, but it’s much more. Superteam continuously produces builders, researchers, educators, designers, operators and creators. These people don’t wait for contests before contributing. The ecosystem makes it easy to showcase expertise, collaborate with projects, build reputations and access opportunities. That’s why Superteam members regularly work with startups across their regions. The former @SuiNetwork Ambassador Program followed a similar philosophy through grassroots education, regional community building and information distribution. In both ecosystems, people became known for specific strengths, whether content creation, design, gaming, developer relations, community building or education. This is where many ecosystems get creator economies wrong. The goal shouldn’t be rewarding creators for posting. It should be reducing customer acquisition costs for builders. A startup launching into an ecosystem with researchers explaining its technology, educators simplifying onboarding, creators demonstrating use cases and community leaders building trust already has an advantage over one launching into silence. That’s one reason @Solana has become attractive to many founders. It’s not just the capital or developers, it’s the support system that helps products reach users after they’re built. Perhaps it’s time to stop asking, “How do we attract more builders?” and instead ask, “How do we give every builder the highest possible chance of succeeding?” That requires more than better technology, larger grants or louder marketing. It requires intentionally developing all five layers together. Builders create products, but they won’t educate every user, build trust at scale or distribute information themselves. That’s what a creator economy is designed to do. Because products don’t spread themselves. People do.
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@icreatelife ·
Community building is impossible without engaging posts and engaging posts don't mean engagement farming. How to spot the difference? A person who builds community actively visits feeds of people who commented on their posts, reposts their work, shares tutorials, offers prompts without asking anything in return, gifts subscriptions, supports as many people as possible. One takes. The other gives.
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@tibo_maker ·
last month I did the most uncomfortable thing of my career I started a community for founders I've joined maybe 15 founder communities and muted 14 of them. that's the real problem with most of these. you pay, you lurk for two weeks, and it becomes another notification you swipe away so when my team pushed me to do this, I assumed ours would go exactly the same way but it sold out in 36 hours we started selling before anything existed. every single thing got built after 😂 I did a live AMA on video with the founders (yes live video 😬) we ran another session where we went deep on two founders' businesses at length, trying to solve their exact problems while everyone else watched and asked questions the conversations in the Slack groups go everywhere. someone shared their full AppSumo lifetime deal run. someone else broke down how they prepared for a launch we also set up small accountability groups. every week people post what they're going to ship and check in on each other it's much harder to quietly drop a goal when 7 people are going to ask you about it at the end of the week it's the first month, so there's plenty to improve. I have a list, mostly from feedback the founders gave me but overall this went better than I expected, and people seem to be getting real value out of it. that's the part I care about
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@mariannehere ·
Most companies think they need more people What they actually need is transformation This is how a lurker becomes a champion it happens through a sequence that most miss >First, they feel seen someone notices them, says their name, acknowledges their presence >Then, they get help not a generic answer, but real effort put into their problem Then, they’re invited asked to contribute, included in something, given a reason to step in >Then, they see their impact their contribution is recognized, visible, meaningful At that point, everything changes -They stop being a member -they start acting like an owner -They bring people in -they defend the project -they create energy you can’t manufacture Most communities try to jump to the last step The real ones respect the process Once you see this, you can’t unsee it This is how communities grow without chasing growth
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@kaitodan ·
Founder, stop wasting your money. You are paying a community builder, not an INTERN running discord or tg. Why should you hire a Community builder? And what should you ask them to do? 1. Community Assessment Put things in context + identify user target. 2. User Research and TAM Strategies and funnels, where is my user? 3. Community Funnels and Experiences How do I get my user in? How do I guide my user? 4. Community Management and Retention Culture, rituals, management, crisis management, etc.
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@harshitajain561 ·
We just wrapped up our second Voice HackSprint by @smallest_AI, this time with @emergentlabs, @EntelligenceAI, @vallodev, @Sky9Capital and Topify joining us 🚀 Honestly, the best part wasn’t just new people showing up, it was seeing folks from the first one come back… and bring friends. That mix of returning hackers + first-timers is exactly the kind of momentum we strive for. Feels like a hacker community building on @smallest_AI forming real time rather than a one-off event anymore. Here’s to more rooms full of builders and more cracked demos!
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@MoneyCrptBunny ·
Want to build an active community? Here’s how we did it, and you can too! Follow these proven strategies to transform your project and engage your audience like never before. The best time to do this is at the very beginning. When you have no audience, but you're ready to build one properly. You need to lay the foundation. The best way is a combination of deep involvement from the founders and the first believers who genuinely care. These first people are your most important asset. For them, your chat needs to be more than just a place for updates. Define a range of adjacent topics that genuinely interest your audience. Your goal is retention and activity. Nobody can discuss your project 24/7. But if the topics are interesting and the people are interesting, the conversation never dies. Create a comfortable ecosystem for them. Tools, bots, moderators, and a steady flow of new, interesting members. You don’t need scale at this stage. You need quality. Then the founders step in and communicate actively. Not just about the project. Share insights, experience, even off-topic thoughts. The community values that access. Add incentives as team-building elements. Rewarding activity in the chat works. Giveaways for active members, poker nights, chess tournaments with a prize pool. The format doesn’t matter. The goal is to unite the community and show that you value them. Give them a sense of shared mission. A feeling that they are part of something bigger. Once this stage is done, you’ve built the foundation. An army of evangelists who will promote and defend your project. Part of this early community will become your best moderators. They will build tools, organize events, and take ownership organically. Only then should you bring in influencers and launch large campaigns. You can be confident this community will stay active. Just keep showing they matter and keep rewarding engagement. Retention is king. Always think about how to increase it.
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@iijaikensii ·
The first online community I ever managed was a forum for a popular Facebook Adobe Flash based game back in 2009. Because of the game’s success at the time, the forum was constantly filled with players looking for guides, showing off their achievements, recruitment for guilds, or seeking customer support for their purchases. There were many applicants for the role, but they ultimately chose me. Not only because I was actively posting useful guides, but because my signature was unique and came with a personalized animated GIF that always caught people’s attention. Back then people with editing skills were rare, and Photoshop was expensive, so I had to use free software and get creative with its limited features. Ever since then, whenever I join any classic phpBB style forum that supports signatures, I make sure to set mine up carefully so it aligns with my goals and identity. And that’s where my passion for cultivating online communities started. The lesson here? 1. Invest in learning new skills. 2. Limitations evolve your creativity. 3. Work on your personal branding. 4. Stand out in the details. The small things people notice can open bigger doors. 5. Consistency turns small advantages into lasting opportunities.
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@kaitodan ·
A good simple web3 community setup 👇 Main platforms: 1. Discord or Telegram 2. Group Chats (X or any platform) 3. Bonus -> Forum on your official Website Community layers: 1. Core community 2. Sub-communities Retention: 1. Active high communication (when possible) 2. Active day-to-day communication (community team) 3. Rituals, events and cultural ceremonies Outreach: 1. Awareness as for CT timeline, content, public presence) 2. Activation as for DMs or group chats) 3. Conversion like direct calls and DMs
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@janetmachuka_ ·
Throwback to building communities built on generosity. At some point in my journey, I stopped treating community like an audience and started treating it like a shared table. I learnt that real communities grow when: 1. Opportunities are shared without fear, 2. information isn’t hoarded, 3. People are celebrated even when it’s not strategic. I’ve seen it through trainings, gigs even heard about how I featured in rooms I wasn’t even present. I’ve seen @ATCDigitalAcad community that started at #AfricaTweetChat show up for each other. The quiet truth is that when people feel seen, they don’t just support you, they protect the space. 💯 Community is about creating a room where others feel safe enough to speak. 💯 We’re still building with it!
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@TheSzef ·
You can’t build a brand based on community and not get the people involved. One big shift I’ve made when posting on organic social is figuring out more ways to get our family of supporters involved. Collab posts have really enhanced that. If you tag us and want to collaborate we accept it. You don’t need the perfect photo. The brand isn’t bigger than the community that supports it. Lift up the ones that made it all happen!
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@MillyTamati ·
How I balance 'shiny object syndrome' with LOCKING IN I've been working on Generalist World since 2022 meaning I, the queen of shiny objects, have committed to the bit **takes bow** I've locked in, and learned a few things 1. RUN TINY EXPERIMENTS (s/out @neuranne) Rn I'm experimenting with: ~ a weird job board (reached 700k+ and made $600+ in 2 weeks) ~ a GW facebook page (LOL, I know! Ask me about my thinking if you're interested) and if you're on FB plsssss go find us and like it At any one time in GW, I have multiple experiments running. This keeps my innovator itch happy. 2. A MISSION BIGGER THAN YOU I'm building the workforce of happy, thriving generalists. The 'job' is never done, and I find this incredibly motivating. We've already helped 100,000s. I want to help tens of millions. This is juicy and gets me fired up every morning. 3. COMPOUNDING IS CONTAGIOUS Do you know how much *easier* things get the longer you work on them? I didn't 😆 2022 was me screaming / begging / crying to have the world pay attention to generalists. 2026 I'm literally turning down opportunities every week. The compounding of brand, community, and just 'staying in the game' is underspoken about. 4. HIRE PEOPLE WHO THINK IN SYSTEMS Where oh where would I be without Ece and Mildred? (probs lost in 80,000 unorganised Notion pages and processes that take 10x as long lol). When you're the creative / visionary, you *need* people who say "why won't this work?" and "let's make a system for this" 5. 80/20 There's a literal graveyard of 'bets' I had about GW that didn't work. A tiny sprinkling did, and they did very well. Community at our core is one. The Generalist Quiz is another. We pour 80% of our energy into the 20% of things that work phenomenally and RIP the rest. 6. EMERGENCE A convo happened in the community on Friday that pivoted into a new channel of passionate members discussing a new model for IRL spaces in our communities, and how GW could be the vehicle to make it happen. This is emergence. I just create the space and things beyond my wildest dreams pop out of the ground. Have a question? Let me know in the replies 💛 Resonates? Reposts are appreciated 💛
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@lilyyang169 ·
Last weekend, @smallest_AI, @imagineagi, and @sprintoHQ co-hosted the Golden Hour Co-Working session at the Corgi Cafe — bringing together 100 founders building in B2B SaaS. A cafe filled on a Saturday with seed+ founders says everything about the builders in SF. These are people who genuinely love what they're building. But what made this event especially meaningful to me was who I got to host it with. I've known @skygodkingdom , the founder of https://t.co/oypyiZTbbH, since his YC days. We'd show up to each other's events, talk about collaborating, and somehow never make it happen — until now! @ShankarAnoushka from Sprinto has been warm and supportive from the very first call. And Balu Murali, their SF-based team member, was an absolute pleasure to work alongside on the ground. The @UseCorgi team, especially @brookeleblanc, made us feel right at home – she's been quietly building one of SF's best spaces for the community, and it showed. This is what makes community-building such a rewarding role — the relationships we build with members of the community, and the people we are building alongside. @smallest_AI hosts events every week in SF — researcher poker nights, founder dinners, hikes, stargazing. We invest in the community because we want to do our part to support the people who've gotten us to where we are. Thank you to @imagineagi and @sprintoHQ for making this one happen. ❤️
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@terencebuilds ·
What a sad day this is going to be for the Build In Public community. @nikitabier announced X Communities are getting killed off May 6. I get it from an operations perspective, less than 0.4% usage but 80% of spam reports. Half the team's time spent on moderation. But this feels like a band aid fix to me. The real problem isn't Communities. It's spam, scams, and bots flooding the platform. Shutting down Communities doesn't solve that, it just pushes the problem elsewhere. What about the actual users who found value here? I basically use X just for communities. The Build In Public community specifically, 255K members who are genuinely supportive and positive. Real conversations about actual struggles. People celebrating wins and sharing failures honestly. Now we're supposed to migrate to XChat with a 350 member limit? How does that math work? 255K members squeezed into multiple 350 person chat rooms? That's not migration thats just a nightmare. The handful of communities that worked well get lumped in with the spam factories. Real users become an afterthought to operational convenience. Maybe I'm missing something, but this feels like throwing out the good with the bad. Communities weren't inherently broken, they just needed better spam controls. Instead of fixing the moderation tools, we're killing the feature entirely. The Build In Public community will survive this somehow. We always do. But X is losing something valuable here. Anyone else feeling like the real users just got sacrificed for cleaner metrics? How are 255K builders supposed to fit into 350-member group chats? #BuildInPublic
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@janetmachuka_ ·
I'm the queen of community building. Put me in a room of beauty prenuers and l'll fit! 2 Weeks ago, l sat with beauty enthusiasts from Nigeria and Kenya to share insights on community building. Btw, l don't know if it's just me but l will show up at events with just a lip gloss and no makeup on and l'm okay with that. For a long time, entrepreneurship was seen as a solo journey. ⇒ Build your brand. ⇒ Protect your ideas. ⇒ Outperform your competitors. ⇒ I'm changing that, a community at a time, from one industry to another. Thanks to Jennifer Uloko, CEO YangaBeauty, for inviting a communications specialist like me to share on how we can succeed through communities that foster collaborations to achieve growth. One major lessons l learnt from building the #AfricaTweetChat community of marketers, business owners and techies is that you can build a fortune from a shared interest than when alone. We built @ATCDigitalAcad that has transformed businesses, individuals and non-profit organizations through training. Glad to share the stage with Marilyne Nimmoh Saki and Anita Foy.
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@HustleFundVC ·
Ryan Hoover's take: community is an overplayed word. People want utility. And the best communities are really just utility with a social layer on top. Product Hunt is a place for founders to launch, get their first users, and get feedback. It's a place for consumers to find what's new. That's the core. The community is a byproduct. If you're building something and struggling to get people to care, ask yourself: what's the utility? What do people get out of showing up?
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@jordantwestecom ·
Modern Retail just ran a full feature on the @PRTLNDLTHR Leather Goods TikTok Shop story. $1,200 a day to $100,000 a day. $1 million in 20 days. 500 creators. 3,800 videos. 13 million views. 7 days. @MacCoyMerkley , their CMO, said it perfectly in the article. "TikTok is about people who genuinely love your brand, and you want to find and recruit those people." That is not a marketing strategy. That is a community strategy. The brands figuring that out right now are building something that compounds. Full story worth reading👇
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@tyinlife ·
20 Lessons I'd tell my 25 year old self about building community & a strong network 1 : "community" is NOT a glorified mailing list. If you're always trying to sell something to them, you've misunderstood the assignment. 2 : Bad apples need to be removed Immediately. Access is not a right, its a privilege. 3 : Ensure there is diversity, a room where everyone does the exact same thing is boring & theres far less opportunity for any meaningful learning / collaboration 4 : have regularly scheduled touchpoints that people can opt into. This provides structure & a sense of unity / home base to come back to. 5 : regularly plan surprise activities that break the mould. If its the same thing every time, its far less effective than when theres a new surprise every now and then. 6 : provide "value" - in simpler terms, does the community help members learn, connect, have fun, make money, get laid or increase their access / status? 7 : Have an ascension model of some sort that rewards & tracks contribution to other members & the community as a whole 8 : have clear pathways for people to feel useful 9 : Build in public, people want to help & they can't help if they don't know what is needed. 10 : Balance growth with fun - in fact, if you can ensure growth happens through play.. thats even better. 11 : protect your community - NEVER accept brand deals or sponsors that DO NOT actually add meaningful value to your members 12 : grow slowly. Slow is smooth & smooth is fast. Growing too quickly makes it impossible for both you & your members to know everyone & trust everyone. 13 : encourage openness & vulnerability by leading from the front. Share challenges you need help with, so others will do the same. 14 : publicly start discussions that can be interesting for the whole room to learn from. 15 : when someone enters the room, ensure they are immediately connected to someone relevant for them - NEVER let someone simply "be there" alone for longer than a few minutes. 16 : find ways to help each and every member grow... either directly through your own skills or through someone else in the community who is uniquely positioned to help them. 17 : Spotlight & celebrate your members regularly. Shower them with appreciation & recognition publicly - get them even MORE high quality connections & elevate their status in front of the room. 18 : share opportunities with them. 19 : share meals with them & discuss everything that makes them unique to you. 20 : go on experiences with them, ideally ones that are challenging - going through challenges together turns "connections" into "lifelong friendships" What did I miss? what would you add?
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@davegerhardt ·
Two years ago after our first event - late night we joked "did we just become an events business?" After dragging my heels on becoming an events business - because of the costs, the travel, the stress. It's one thing if people don't show up to your webinar or no one listens to your podcast, but to deal with people getting plane tickets, flying across the country, and getting their butts in seats for your event, man that is a different kind of stress. But have ABSOLUTELY become an events business because in-person is an INCREDIBLE force multiplier for community. Because we have this online community (Exit Five) some percentages of event attendees feel like they already know each other, and even if that's only 25% of the room it makes a big, big difference. I am sure you saw the posts from attendees on LinkedIn over the last two weeks. That is the type of PR and brand you can't pay for it. It's genuine. It's real. As one CMO put it: "COMMUNITY EVENTS FEEL DIFFERENT. You can feel it the moment you walk in the room. Meeting people in real life for the first time after years of online connection *feels* fantastic. It's not “networking” — it's a reunion of people who actually care about each other. That doesn’t happen at most customer events." And the way I spin the story about IRL is that it's more important now, than ever, because we're all spending so much time working with AI, we can't forget about how great real human connection feels. I've been told this is a very American thing, but we put a lot of stock into what we do for work. Our jobs are a big part of our identity, and there's something millions of people on this earth who work in the world of B2B marketing. I'm honored that we've built something with Exit Five where we can sit at the middle of connecting those people. You! You people. I have LOTS of other event lessons and learnings, but I'm over the stage of sharing them now because we have something special and it's a secret sauce I'm keeping close. Granted, I didn't do anything for this event other than MC and post it about to all of my LinkedIn followers - but that's the power of building a great team at E5. Worth every penny of payroll going all in on this company after telling everyone I could only be solopreneur for life. We have something special. "Who cares it's just B2B marketing bro." Nah you don't get it then :) Here's a little recap video. PS. The NPS score from this event was an 89. Breaking our record of 88 from Drive 2024.
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@maeveknows ·
you want to be part of a village? be a villager. the price of community is inconvenience. showing up when it’s not about you. helping when there’s nothing to gain. responding when it would’ve been easier to ignore. community isn’t built on vibes. it’s built on participation. checking in. supporting others. doing small things consistently. most people want the benefits of a village without paying the cost of being in one. but real communities remember. who showed up. who gave. who stayed when it wasn’t convenient. you don’t get to belong without contributing.
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@yeskipras ·
"Community building" in crypto is just bribing people with token promises until they pretend to care about your mission. I know because I’ve seen communities go up and down with profit. Mine absolutely failed because I made these promises without having the proper backend Followers who instantly disappeared when the bribes ended A real community comes from real products. everything else is theatre.
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