We currently have 61,392 accounts on Steemit, but how many of them are active?
I have decided to look into the past 7 days of activity on the blockchain:
Start: 2016-08-07T00:00:00, Block #3859146
End: 2016-08-14T00:00:00, Block #4059780
Results
It turns out 13,083 users were active in the past week.
Every account that has written at least 1 blog post, or comment, or casted a vote is deemed active.
Has Posted | Has Commented | Has Voted | |
---|---|---|---|
Accounts | 5,852 | 5,917 | 12,761 |
My Interpretation
It looks like we had about ~6k active authors and ~12.7k active readers last week.
To me, this is good news, as I have guesstimated the size of the author community to be between 2-3k - and we have double that.
I think active authors is a better metric than registered users, because they create value on a recurring basis, bring their own audiences over, and attract other authors. Furthermore, the more quality content we have, the better the search traffic. It all feeds back into more users and growth.
If you thought most of the 60k accounts are 'real', then this may come as a slight disappointment to you.
It is worth noting, that a chunk of the accounts are/were miners.
Furthermore, it seems like we are under the attack of cybersquatting. People are registering valuable names such as @samsung, @gap and @gym with hopes to be able to sell those names in the future.
Most Active Users
Here is the list of 50 most active writers in the last week.
You will see that the ones on the top of the list are mostly spammers.
Author | Posts | |
---|---|---|
1 | taz | 142 |
2 | dog | 134 |
3 | lenar | 102 |
4 | yassinebentour | 87 |
5 | mxu111 | 69 |
6 | stoneybrooks | 69 |
7 | trisnawati | 66 |
8 | stillsafe | 64 |
9 | wildchild | 61 |
10 | kasper | 58 |
11 | nkdk | 58 |
12 | erotic | 55 |
13 | runridefly | 55 |
14 | crowe | 52 |
15 | cryptocurrency1 | 52 |
16 | jackgallenhall | 47 |
17 | lkong87 | 47 |
18 | alexoz | 44 |
19 | cileremit | 44 |
20 | jeffreyahann | 44 |
21 | mrkuujo | 43 |
22 | allmonitors | 40 |
23 | matrixdweller | 38 |
24 | nigroll | 38 |
25 | rkpl | 38 |
26 | contentjunkie | 37 |
27 | villainblack | 37 |
28 | xntryk1 | 37 |
29 | kevbonneau | 35 |
30 | dicov | 34 |
31 | heretickitten | 34 |
32 | illidans | 34 |
33 | wakeupnd | 34 |
34 | karenmckersie | 33 |
35 | tamara1989 | 33 |
36 | alwaysfelicia | 32 |
37 | herzmeister | 32 |
38 | jamesart63 | 32 |
39 | satire | 32 |
40 | aartijohn20 | 31 |
41 | craig-grant | 31 |
42 | alexandre | 30 |
43 | laconicflow | 30 |
44 | dimon14 | 29 |
45 | jpiper20 | 29 |
46 | margot | 29 |
47 | nameles | 29 |
48 | skapaneas | 29 |
49 | arcaneinfo | 28 |
50 | colinsydes | 28 |
And the top 50 commenters:
Author | Comments | |
---|---|---|
1 | amihay | 1786 |
2 | cheetah | 1011 |
3 | alona | 927 |
4 | thecryptofiend | 733 |
5 | kaylinart | 574 |
6 | isaac.asimov | 518 |
7 | nameles | 502 |
8 | foxkoit | 371 |
9 | dwinblood | 364 |
10 | knozaki2015 | 353 |
11 | acidyo | 309 |
12 | stellabelle | 303 |
13 | bendjmiller222 | 298 |
14 | lukestokes | 293 |
15 | johnnyyash | 287 |
16 | robok | 283 |
17 | cryptos | 268 |
18 | veralynn | 266 |
19 | elyaque | 263 |
20 | freddy008 | 263 |
21 | confucius | 252 |
22 | cryptobarry | 251 |
23 | jarvis | 247 |
24 | ciao | 245 |
25 | lillianjones | 243 |
26 | mammasitta | 242 |
27 | razvanelulmarin | 242 |
28 | sharon | 239 |
29 | allasyummyfood | 237 |
30 | condra | 235 |
31 | steemster1 | 234 |
32 | michaellamden68 | 231 |
33 | mrgrey | 229 |
34 | ace108 | 228 |
35 | anonymint | 226 |
36 | klye | 223 |
37 | msjennifer | 223 |
38 | anca3drandom | 221 |
39 | bullionstackers | 220 |
40 | opheliafu | 216 |
41 | kbargold | 215 |
42 | clevecross | 213 |
43 | fabio | 205 |
44 | alexgr | 200 |
45 | sisterholics | 197 |
46 | felixxx | 195 |
47 | williambanks | 195 |
48 | ervin-lemark | 193 |
49 | voltarius | 189 |
50 | meesterboom | 188 |
I am a bit annoyed with spammers skewing the leaderboards, but hopefully they will go away once they realize spam isn't profitable around here.
Does editing a post 'bump' it?
I've noticed some people edit their posts a lot. A person I shall not name does edit their post 30-40 times after posting.
Does anyone know if editing a post has any effect on its position in steemit.com feed?