1/🧵 Cityverse connects communities through information, ideas, and experiences. Each Cityverse is hyper-local. Anyone can consume the great content in Cityverse, but you’ve got to live in the city to add content.

Through Habitat’s CEO Build, business leaders have the opportunity to invest in what matters most: our people and our communities. Feeling inspired? Find out how you can support the CEO Build by visiting https://t.co/1Yq9jWkN3i #HabitatTampaBayGulfside #CEOBuild

The need for affordable homeownership is more urgent than ever. That’s why Joe Hamilton, Cityverse’s Head of Network, is proud to partner with fellow leaders from Pinellas, Pasco and Hernando Counties to help build a family’s forever home with @HabitatTBG

It may be just a little paint on dirt, but it means the world to us. Fanbars are coming soon! #RaysUp

14/ Soon, Cityzens will have the opportunity to earn money by providing valuable content. Cityverse will offer monetization tools like tipping, subscribing and ad rev share to local content creators. CV will spawn a whole new world of local content.

13/ Another example of Cityverse tools: newsletters for neighborhood associations. With our tool, they can send their emails, and the content is also sent to Cityverse for the neighborhood news section. Cityverse revitalizes sections of the paper that have been abandoned.

12/ Cityverse evolves #LocalNews to consider new methods for sourcing, analyzing & articulating information For example: sports data reporting tools for high schools As the team keep record of its game stats, that data is sent to Cityverse to update the local sports section

11/ Homespaces are for individuals. Createspaces are for businesses and organizations. Createspaces provide a full suite of tools including #ecommerce, scheduling, ticketing and more.

@stpetecatalyst 10/ Your Homespace is your place for posting content, adding gigbars and fanbars, and getting a digital wallet to store (and display) #NFTs. But that’s just the beginning. We’ll continue to add new features, benefits, deals and opportunities for Cityzens in the coming months.

@elonmusk @cityverselife coming soon. Local news + local social = civic media.

@stpetecatalyst 9/ It’s free to enjoy Cityverse content and contribute as a Resident. For those that want to login to even more local value, we offer Cityzenship. Cityzens enjoy access to an ever growing stack of local value. The first perk of Cityzenship is the Homespace 👇

@stpetecatalyst 8/ Verifying grants you Residency, which means you can comment on content and get a customized Content Flow. Being a Resident is free, and the prescursor to becoming a Cityzen.

@stpetecatalyst 7/ The magic of Cityverse is hyper-locality. To contribute content to Cityverse you must verify that you are indeed a local. That let’s everyone know you’re a real 🧑‍🦰 and not a 🤖 or a 🧌, and that you’re a part of the local community.

@stpetecatalyst 6/ The community will decide which perspectives they prefer to support, which builds a democratically chosen all-star team of the best local talent.

@stpetecatalyst 5/ Cityverse will leverage social journalism to reinvigorate topics that local papers used to cover, but have since abandoned. Foodies, music lovers, environmentalists and even aspiring Dear Abbys can create content in Cityverse.

@stpetecatalyst 4/ Cityverse will evolve #LocalNews to leverage the latest technology and methods to complement Catalyst journalism. For example, sports reporting tools will allow coaches at local schools to upload scores and stats, then use #AI to turn the data into complete articles.

3/ At the core of each Cityverse is Catalyst local news. @stpetecatalyst has been serving #StPete for the past 5 years. Each new Cityverse also means a new Catalyst, locally staffed and reporting on the critical topics in the community.

2/ St. Petersburg and Tampa will spawn the first Cityverses. We expect 10 Cityverses to be thriving by the end of 2024. #StPete #stpetefl #Tampa

As we approach the Cityverse #launch, we’re psyched to start sharing more of what you can expect out of the platform. For August, we’ll be dropping new #Cityverse info every day, so make sure you follow to keep up!

Join us May 17th at the @MahaffeyTheater for another great day with the Tampa Bay tech community. We're partnering with @techtampabay on an exclusive #NFT drop. Visit https://t.co/8Wf6syYhBU to register.