Hurray! I've got my first thousand of followers on Steemit!
This is my case. It happened right now but there is nothing to celebrate actually. Yes, this is some sort of milestone and round beautiful number but still if you will look at the stats deeper you can find out some interesting facts. Great that Steem is open blockchain system so we can get as many details as we want from there.
But first, let me introduce myself from other networks. Since I am freelancing as an illustrator worldwide for around last 10 years I've collected few fellows here and there.
My Stats from Different Social Networks
- 3 814 Vkontakte friends (~900-1200 daily views, ~50-100 likes per post)
- 5 000 Facebook friends (? views, ~3-150 likes per post)
- 7 389 Instagram followers (~2000-4000 views, ~300-800 likes per post)
- 222 892 Behance.net followers (~2500-45000 views, ~1500-3500 appreciates per project)
- 48 Telegram Channel followers (~100-8000 views per post - fantastic!)
I've started to invite them all here. Changed the link from my personal site to this blog since Steemit is very promising.
I never cheated to get followers. Never bought any. Never done any follow to follow things. I barely follow anyone. After Facebook changed their algorythm of showing only popular posts to your friends feed I've seen dramatically loss of views and likes there. Same for Instagram since Facebook accquired it.
Why thousands of followers usually means nothing?
According to @spectacles Steem Spectacles (alternative is http://steemit.deadfollowers.info/) from that total of 1000 Steem followers almost all of them are so called dead or inactive. You can check your stats there too.
My case:
- 657 ghost followers (active users who didn't engage with my page at all in the last 100 posts, since I have posted around 50 posts for now this users are similar to dead for me)
- 161 dead followers (followers who haven't been active in over a month)
Let's count: 1000-657-161=182. Meaning out of 1000 less than 200 might be interested to see or read something out of my blog. Maybe not. Others are just numbers.
Most of these users are following just to get followbacks. Actually in the beginning I was doing the same here for few days because I thought it will work. After some time your friends feed will look like a trashcan so you won't be able to read that at all. It is better not to beg in the comments to upvote something by the way :)
What to do?
It is better to build up clean community and focus on what you create. Communicate with other users which posts you really like. Don't look for the payments they have and don't think about money at all. It's better not to write pointless comments like "Great post, thanks for the information". You can find real friends here because people are trying to express their thoughts with smart and kind comments. You can have great professional guidance also that way. And better don't waste money buying any resteems and upvotes.
It is good if you will ask the community and read the comments from time to time. It was helping me to grow professionally in other social networks a lot. When there was lot's of positive comments for my fresh work that meant I move the right way. Never rush for the amount of followers as you can see it means almost nothing here. Do what you like to do and tell the world about in a beautiful manner. Create interesting content from your passion and you will get true readers and hopefully valuable voters.
By the way, right now I am working on eSteem Ocean stickerpack inviting for betatest it in Telegram.
