What Is Triberr and Why Bloggers Should Go Tribal

By On 2011/09/23 · 18 Comments · In I Don't Know Where Else to Put This, Triberr Stuff, What I Do

First of all, I’m not getting any kind of special tribal gear or anything for this post (although I should, right?) I thought it would be a good idea to try to explain it a little more in depth than I have in the two sentence messages I have been stalking everyone with.

Triberr is new. Hella new. And that’s why the most common question I’ve had when inviting people is, “What is Triberr?” I’m a newbie myself, but in a very basic, plain people non techy non tribal lingo explanation: Triberr is a method in which to expand your blog’s readership via Twitter.

Getting Started on Triberr

To begin with, you must be invited by someone already on Triberr. 1 Once you are invited and accept, you connect your blog’s RSS Feed and Twitter profile. You say hi to the members of the tribe (because that’s polite weirdo) and after a while your blog posts are pulled into your stream and randomly tweeted out by your tribe mates. The posts that say “sent” have gone out. At first you will have a lot of old posts that all say “overflow” which will later have a reschedule button if you want them to go out.

My Stream on Triberr

Although it took a few days, I finally have some posts in the Tribal Stream tab from my tribe mates that were tweeted out from my Twitter feed. Mine is set on auto but you can manually approve the tweets before they go out, in case for some reason someone posts something you don’t want in your Twitter feed. 2 This is how your blog post’s reach is multiplied. Between the members in the Satire Tribe, Kick Ass Writers Tribe (that I started) I have a reach of 4,596–meaning the link from my blog post is potentially being seen by almost 4600 people.

Triberr Stats

Starting a Tribe

Once you have been invited into a tribe, you are given a tribe to start which you can name whatever you like and invite whomever you fancy. If you write about finance you build a tribe of finance writers. Fashion writers, mommies, daddies, tech writers, social media writers, politics, etc. You will need to start with 5 members who are not on Triberr and then you are able to unlock inbreeding where you can invite and add people who are already on Triberr. Some of the tribes already have a reach of millions.

What Triberr Is Not

People are already overwhelmed with Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, and all of the other clubs and groups that we have joined in order to network. Triberr is not simply a social networking tool but a sharing tool and as far as I can tell really only benefits bloggers and writers. When you think about it, if you are in all of the groups I’ve mentioned, you are probably running in circles with the same people who see your link in all of these locations. “I’m on Google+ now…everyone go circle me.” Sounds familiar, right? Triberr of course allows your blog to reach thousands of other people’s followers without asking them or hoping for a retweet. Typically, you will reach likeminded followers who will also be as interested in your work as they are in the person’s whom they are already following.

Benefits of Triberr

  • Reach multiplier.
  • Adds Twitter followers.
  • Increases your blog readers and page views.
  • Free and simple. Doesn’t require much energy but it of course is in your best interest to engage and blog regularly.

I am currently working with Bubblegum On My Shoe and Beard And Pigtails on a tribe for single parents. Since all three of us are already on Triberr, we need members who are not yet on Triberr to unlock inbreeding (I know. It sounds hokey and kind of illegal.) I have started Kick Ass Writers which includes Sevastian Winters and a few writers who are almost in but probably wondering why the hell I keep bothering them. If you are interested in either group, let me know.

@cmajaski

@bubblegumcari

@beardpigtails

@sevwinters

@marjoriemcatee

@philtorcivia

@latenightbooks

@kthband

You want in. I know you do. Any questions?

UPDATE: My reach is now around 647,000, I am no longer in the Single Parent tribe. Besides Kick Ass Writers and Bloggers, I have also started a humor tribe.

There are a number of updates and changes that can be found in this post. 

  1. Invites are not required anymore as of 1/17/2012 ↩
  2.  You must manually approve all posts; there is no longer an auto choice. ↩
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  • http://diyblogger.net Dino Dogan (@dino_dogan)

    thnx so much for writing about us, Christina :-)

    It’s important to understand how Triberr is different from G+, Facebook and other social engines, and I think you’ve done a great job explaining it :-)

    Thnx again

    Dino, Founder of Triberr

    • Solitary Mama

      And it helps when one of the founders says so. Thanks for stopping by.

  • http://www.bubblegumonmyshoe.com Cari

    Nicely done Christina! They should post that one their site! I did notice you did not say anything about bones or bonfires, probably best as not to scare away the newbies.

    Yes, important to note busy single parents, this almost takes no effort…we’re pretty fun, you should join our gang…I mean ‘tribe’, nicer than gang.

    • Solitary Mama

      Was trying to explain it better than I have on Facebook. I think I was actually scaring people away.

  • http://writercize.blogspot.com Alana Garrigues

    Thanks for sharing this Christina! It looks really interesting … and also like work to follow the conversations. But the potential is there! Maybe when I can finally get a handle on GBE2 one day I’ll see about checking it out! ;)

  • http://dontcallmemarge.blogspot.com Marjorie McAtee

    Well, okay, I guess I’ll join. I’m suspicious of all this “social media networking” business. But, you know, I guess it sounds alright. Kinda.

    • Solitary Mama

      See? If you harass a person enough they either give in or call the police.

  • http://www.mutantsupermodel.com Mutant Supermodel

    Signed up with an invite code I’d received. Let me see how much damage I can do getting the word out.

  • http://anothershittyblogbysomedouche.wordpress.com/ Craig

    I joined for a short moment once when invited, but found it extremely annoying.

    I suppose that my twitter followers tune into me for something specific and when I was constantly broadcasting blog posts that were just “passed along” without any actual incite, or perhaps having read them, I was just annoying my followers and passing along information and topics that didn’t mess with the previous reason they’d decided to follow along.

    As such, I found myself losing loyal followers and gaining a bunch of people that were just in the same tribe, passing along blog posts robotically…

    That first experience was not good, so I deleted my account.

    Perhaps there is some merit there somewhere for some, but it just seemed a great way to boost posts in an ingenuine manner.

    • Solitary Mama

      Bet you didn’t think I’d approve this. Your blog is pretty rock and roll especially since it refers to douchebags. As a wise writerly friend mentioned–Triberr is only as good as the Tribe you are in. Anyone can form a tribe of a bunch of shitty writers. You may tweet the tweet but you also have to walk the walk. No one is going to click on and follow crap regardless of who tweets it.

      With that being said, you need a tribe of likeminded individuals which write in a manner and on a topic that is of interest to your followers (and yourself). There is also the option of approving the tweets before they go out if you don’t trust the auto option. In my experience thus far, there are more new followers than followers lost.

      Let me know if you change your mind and thanks for stopping by.

  • http://magical27.blogspot.com Kirsty

    Well, my blog gets updated less often than I’d like (especially this crazy month of September) but Triberr sounds interesting. I’m an harassed, overworked, bone-tired and dead-broke single mother and I try to use my blog as a means of expressing myself. I have (very) few readers, which isn’t a problem really (I’m not really looking for fame or glory, for sure), but MORE would be nice… In other words, I’m interested in joining!

  • http://alaskanchocoholic.blogspot.com/ Dorothy

    Nice post explaining Triberr. I think the most important thing is to find a tribe with things you have in common. That way your stream doesn’t look like a bunch of unrelated junk streaming through.

  • http://bibsandbaubles.com Cam

    So as a Triberr newbie I jacked up. I thought I could join multiple tribes and joined them as they were offered. Uh, wrong. So I don’t get to be a Kick Ass Writer and it sucks. Just sayin. Dern rules!

    • Solitary Mama

      No problem Cam. We need a couple more people not on Triberr in that group before I can add anyone who is already on Triberr. Will look for you over there…

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  • http://www.singleguywithkids.com Steve

    Hey! Where’s my invitation? This sounds like something really interesting and fun to try. Thanks for the informative post!

  • Lenasledge

    New and I’m still confused about Triberr. What is there to do once you join? Add tribes and find people to join them?