The Festive Follower Freebie - a Festive Season Giveaway for all my followers (update)

Eight days ago I posted about my plan to visit every one of my followers to get to know them and leave a little festive upvote.

This has been an absolutely fascinating project. I am being followed by all sorts of people, all around the world with a vast range of posting interests.

It is taking me much longer than I had planned partly because I stop to read so many interesting posts as I go round and partly because I am tending to upvote at a higher percentage than I initially envisaged so I am having to pace myself to maintain sufficient voting power.

I will be continuing with this project until I have been round all my followers. When I started I had 888 followers, that has now grown to 961. When I get to the end if you think I have missed you do let me know. I expect I will be finished around the middle of next week.

As I travel round my followers, as well as reading all the posts I am keeping some basic statistics about the status of all the people I visit.

While they are not really surprising the statistics do make for some interesting reading.

I will make a post at the end with the full stats but a snapshot so far reveals that 42% of my followers either never posted or have not been active for a month or more.

Interestingly exactly the same percentage, 42%, are posting regularly with 'proper' posts.

The remainder, ie around 16%, are active but posting meaningless (sh*t) posts.

I wonder how representative these figures are for steemit as a whole?

Oddly the inactive follower percentage is significantly higher than the corresponding figure from the Dead Followers app :

• http://steemit.deadfollowers.info/

This gives a dead/inactive (one month) follower percentage of around 30%.

I will wait until the end to see how the final figures tally.

Keep on following and will be with you soon (if I haven't been already).

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You might also be interested in some of my other posts :

• The Homesteaders Mentoring System is underway - first two mentors now available

• Homestead Plans for 2018 : bees, solar panels and an electric car

• Family Holidays in Wales 1964-65 (including Aberaeron and Aberystwyth)

• Do you want to buy your baked beans with steem? You can now if you live in the UK

• I Buy Steem - can we bypass the exchanges?

• Vive la révolution - steem is here (or why I haven't been so excited for over 20 years)

• [FICTION CONTEST] Christmas Day in 2050 - Announcement of Winners

• SteemRadio - schedule of all the steemit radio shows - week beginning 25 December 2017

• Personal Mentoring Statement from @pennsif : now accepting up to 5 minnows who would like a mentor to help them on their steemit journey

• [CONTEST] MSP Waves Radio : Pennsif on Air with Globocop : What happened in 1964? - 500 SP delegation to be won

• Homesteaders & Preppers on steemit - heading towards 300 by the new year? v11 [23 Dec '17]

• Steemit coming alive in Wales - First meetup taking place on Saturday 10 February 2018 in Lampeter

• The Steem is Rising - 2018 is going to be a good, good year - are you feeling the buzz?

• SteemCommerce - Businesses accepting payment in steem (v 1 @ 15 December 2017)

• SteemTowns - connecting the virtual with the reality - would it be possible?

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I am in the market for buying steem directly.

I can pay by BACS, PayPal, or Amazon Gift Cards.

For more details check my post :

• I Buy Steem - can we bypass the exchanges?

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[ graphic by @pennsif ]