Here it is, almost a week after the wickedly-cool-yet-brain-melty #HiveChat #3 (and great idea to start numbering them, @hivetrending!) on Twitter, and I’m still finding tweets I haven’t seen before! And believe me, that’s not a complaint – I’m so amazed and thrilled at how many people participated! And instead of just sharing this on my Hive blog, I figured since a number of my WordPress blogging friends have asked me ~~if I’ve joined a cult~~ what this blockchain blogging thing is, that I’d post this on both of my blogs.

I also thought that future Hive Chat hosts might want to check this out to get a feel for how they typically go – although as we’re about to see with @nathanmars chat tomorrow, that there are no hard and fast rules, and you can do it in a way that works for you.

And while I originally planned to also include some of my favorite and/or most thought provoking answers in this recap, I soon realized how overwhelming that would be for a single post. I’m toying with the idea of doing a series of posts in the next couple of weeks, each one focusing on a single question with as many of the answers as I can pull together. Please shout out if that’s something you’d be interested in seeing, or if this overall summary is all you need. 😊

Firstly, what is a #TwitterChat?

It’s actually a pretty simple thing – essentially someone comes up with a hash tag and topic, then at the appointed time, the designated host starts tweeting out a series of questions. People then tweet out their answers using the hash tag, and merriment is made! Stella has a great guideline in this post, so be sure to take a peek. More specifically for my chat (which followed how the two hosts before me did theirs), as I explained to someone beforehand –

It lasts an hour. I ask a series of 5 questions, one every ten minutes, like so….

Q1 – my question

A1 – your answer + the #HiveChat tag.

Then chat with everyone else as much as you’d like!

While I’d heard about Twitter chats for ages, and saw various tags (usually related to blogging and writing) in my feed over the years, I’d never really participated in one before. But after the first Hive Chat took place back on July 21st (hosted by the incredibly talented @jeanlucsr, who also happens to be the creator of the HiveChat hashtag), I was hooked! So when @hivepeople (aka @stellabelle) offered me the chance to host the third one (she rocked chat #2), my answer was a…

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In the week before the chat

Here are six of the tweets that I did leading up to the chat. Many awesome people, including the aforementioned JeanLuc and Hive People, also tweeted out reminders that the chat was coming.

Two days before, I tweeted this out –
https://twitter.com/TraciYorkWriter/status/1289995045991403520

Then the day before, I sent out a teaser question –
https://twitter.com/TraciYorkWriter/status/1290306157668700161

90 minutes before –
https://twitter.com/TraciYorkWriter/status/1290595500895469568

Less than an hour –
https://twitter.com/TraciYorkWriter/status/1290606272337911810

30 minutes before –

30 minutes until #HiveChat time! Hope to see tons of people from the #Hive community answering the 5 questions! To make it easier to follow along, use #HiveChat in all your replies, and A1 (or 2, etc) when answering, like –

Q1 – my question
A1 – your answer + #HiveChat pic.twitter.com/b8Zuid90KS

— Traci (Cavanaugh) York ❤️'s #Hive (@TraciYorkWriter) August 4, 2020

Reminder – starts in 15 minutes –
https://twitter.com/TraciYorkWriter/status/1290615136634515456

The #HiveChat begins!

Since I want to encourage people to continue chatting about these questions and answers, instead of embedding these tweets, I’ll share the link to each, then write out the questions and include the amazeball graphics (provided by the also amazingly talented @stellabelle – thank you again for the gorgeousness!). Oh, and I have to admit, that while I added the #HiveChat to my first two question tweets here, it only appeared in my last three questions because JeanLuc shouted out and reminded me during the chat… 🤣

Link to Tweet

Welcome to the 3rd #HiveChat, a weekly #Tweetchat about all things #Hive!

⭐️ Use #Hivechat in all your tweets
⭐️ There are 5 questions
⭐️ Every 10 minutes is a new question
⭐️ Chat lasts one hour.

Have fun, chat a ton!

Thanks to @JeanlucSR & @HivePeople for starting this!

Question 1

Link to Tweet

Q1) Are your a #Hive #blogger, #vlogger, or both (and what kind of content do you create)? #HiveChat

Question 2

Link to Tweet

Q2) What are your thoughts about the ongoing issue with posts of little substance getting large payouts (inspired by a Twitter convo between @joseacabrerav & @jeanlucsr)? #HiveChat

Question 3

Link to Tweet

Q3) What are your favorite posts to curate (#life #blogs, #photography, #writing, #music, #cooking, #travel, @threespeak #vlogs, @splinterlands #gaming, @nftshowroom #art, @actifit #fitness, #contests like @yourtop3, @leofinance #investing #movies etc)? #HiveChat

Question 4

Link to Tweet

Q4) Can you suggest some of the best hashtags to use when sharing your #Hive content to Twitter? #HiveChat

Question 5

Link to Tweet

Q5) What are some questions you’d like to see addressed in upcoming Hive Chats? #HiveChat

Wrapping up the chat

These were the final two tweets I posted –

https://twitter.com/TraciYorkWriter/status/1290630821905346567

THANK YOU all for another awesomesauce #HiveChat! Big shoutout to @JeanlucSR & @HivePeople for all their hard work organizing all this!

Now as has become traditional, reply to this thread with your best #Hive gif & see you next week with @NathanMars7 as host! pic.twitter.com/xMFCeIQQ3P

— Traci (Cavanaugh) York ❤️'s #Hive (@TraciYorkWriter) August 4, 2020

Initial Stats Report

The very next day, @jeanlucsr) posted an amazing report that said, in part –

During the time of this snapshot, 31.262 accounts on Twitter were reached, with those 100 tweets getting 172.750 impressions.

As he further explained on Twitter, that’s not the whole story –

…actually that reach was a snapshot of a timeframe of 11 minutes during the chat. So it’s a lot higher.

See why my brain was melted? LOL! Be sure to check out the rest of the stats, along with some cool charts and graphics in his post, #HiveChat Report Tuesday August 4th

Coming up next

We already have hosts scheduled for September! Here are the two tweets with the deets –

So far the calendar looks like this –

Aug 11: @nathanmars

Aug. 18: @artemislives

Aug. 25: @pixiepost

September (dates TBD)

@hiro-hive

@hivetrending

@jongolson

That’s all folks!

At least for now. There’s so much awesome information, suggestions, and feedback that came out of this chat, that I’m sure I’ll find more to say about it soon. Thanks again to everyone who helped make this such an AMAZEBALLS experience! And be sure to check out upcoming Nathan’s Hive Chat, happening in less that 12 hours!

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