Posting Activity Report 5th Feb - 11th Feb

This report provides a snapshot of posting activity on the Steem Blockchain for the past 7 days.

• How many accounts are active?
• Who is posting?

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Focusing on the numbers/frequency of posts (i.e. ignoring payouts) we can get a feel for who is posting as well as the level of account activity.

In the first half of the report we analyse daily posting activity in detail. For the second half we take a weekly view.

We separately analyse the frequency of posting activity by:

• Reputation of Author
• Steem Power
• Date of Joining
• Automated vs Manual Posts
  This Automated/Manual categorisation is based on frequency of posting activity over the last 7 days

The data for this report is sourced from https://steemdata.com/ by @furion

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Posts per Day (ex comments)

In the past 7 days there was a total of 347k posts from 61k unique accounts, down from 371k and 68k last week.
This week we get an average of 5.1 posts in the week for authors that were posting.

• The mean number of Posts per day was 49.5k, down from 53k last week
• The mean number of Accounts posting per day was 26k, up from 24k last week

Daily counts give a high level overview but we can examine subdivisions or groups of authors to get further insights into who is posting.

The colour in the following graphs represent different cohorts of Steemit Accounts.

Reputation

It can take a while to build your reputation and the system is designed so that it is easy to lose it. You don't want to get downvotes from people with higher Rep!

The next few graphs examine how many posts per day are made by people of different Reputations.

Total

Breakdown

Steem Power

Steem is a stake weighted platform. If you have more stake your vote is worth more.

The next few graphs examine how many posts per day are made by people with different levels of Steem Power.

Total

Breakdown

Account Duration

The first accounts were created in April 2016. We are now passing the 700k account mark. Absolute number is important but retention is also important.

• How many people who joined over the course of the last year are still posting?
• Who is creating the bulk of the daily content?

The next few graphs examine how many posts per day are made by people that have been on Steemit for different lengths of time.

Total

Breakdown

Automated Accounts

If there is one, what is the number of comments a day that we could use to identify automated accounts?
I would propose anything higher than 4 posts per day (on average) uses some sort of automation. This number may not be correct but it's a starting point for our analysis.

Automated accounts may post daily reports or in some cases may just be people spamming the system with low quality content or content copied from other sources. Not all automated posts are bad and some provide a useful function such as daily statistics, market analysis etc. Splitting out these automated accounts will be more relevant for comment activity however it's also worth tracking for posts.

The next few graphs examine the daily posts that are in some way automated.

Total

Breakdown

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It is useful to look at numbers of posts on a daily basis but aggregating over a longer period gives us additional insights.

Posts per Week

The remaining graphs examine the posting activity over the last 7 days in aggregate.

Posting Frequency

The number of posts for individual accounts plotted versus the number of unique accounts shows how frequently accounts are posting.

• The blue shaded area represents less than 4 posts per day (on average).
• A large number of accounts post less than 4 posts per day.

Let's examine the breakdown of this frequency by the categories we have looked at before.

Reputation

Steem Power

Duration

Related Content

If your looking for more daily statistics:

• @arcange produces daily reports with really useful data.
• steemdata.com, a website by @furion, has live interactive charts
• #blockchainbi and the members of the @Steemitbc community, spearheaded by @paulag, produce detailed analysis on all things related to Steemit.

This Posting Activity Report will be published on a weekly basis going forward as well as further analysis that takes a look at Post Payout Activity. I will also provide longer term trend analysis in a similar format on a less regular basis.

• What area of this report did you find most useful?
  I would love any feedback to improve or clarify any of this analysis.

<- Link to last weeks report

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