The Top 100 Most Followed Steemit Accounts
Last night I wrote a script analyzing 54,459 accounts to give you the top 100 most followed Steemit users as of Tuesday, August 9th.
TOP 100 USERS BY FOLLOWER COUNT
Steemit Is Not a Popularity Contest
Let's be clear about that right up front. This isn't high school all over again. It's possible to game this report by creating 100's of bot accounts and then following yourself with them. What matters most here is the content you create. Will it always be noticed or appreciated with whales votes? Nope. Should you keep writing great content anyway? Yes, if you want to see this platform succeed long term and, over time, gain followers of your own. For the most part, IMO, these people have a lot of followers because they're consistently posting great content others want to read. Do the same, engage, write something meaningful, build relationships, leave useful comments, and you will make connections as well.
Some interesting things I discovered while putting this together:
- I finally figured out how the API works. You can see the nerdy details of how I got this data here.
- I'm somewhat of a narcissist. I originally planned on showing the top 50, but since I was 53 on the list, I decided to go with 100. That's forgivable, right?
- Out of 54,459 accounts only 18,898 have actually posted at least once. We have a lot of bots/mined accounts around here.
- Only 6,671 accounts have at least one follower.
- I really love geeking out about data like this.
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-- Luke Stokes --