Who mentioned Steemit this week?

Vitalik Buterin has an interesting discussion on Twitter where he mentions Steemit and some of the challenges with content monetisation.

An account dedicated to freeing Julian Assange tweets a Steemit Post and initiative by community members @jamesgetsit, @v4vapid and @fortified,

Does anyone know who J Alvarez is?
This Latin American Musician has 3.2m followers on Twitter and tweeted a Steemit post this week that has a grand total of 1 vote. Is the account @ipauta a legit account and if so how can we support it on Steemit?

In this series I regularly analyse and publish a summary of the tweets with the keyword Steemit from around the world.

Twitter is more than just a news source. It is one of the most influential media outlets today. Everyone from the President of the United States to the Pope are on it. By analysing who is posting on Twitter about Steem/it we can get some interesting insights about geographical activity as well as trends in media penetration.

Global Activity
This first graph shows the number of Steemit Tweets Globally for the past 7 days.
i.e. the number of Tweets where Steemit has been mentioned (ex retweets)

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There is less and less activity week on week.

High Profile Tweeters
This second graph shows the twitter accounts with the biggest number of followers that tweeted about Steemit or with Links to Steemit Articles this past week.

Some interesting Tweeters this week!

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Three big ones caught my eye, you can read the tweets at the following links:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1008904659388551168
https://twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/1007753390208806913
https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1007645727298744320
It's not possible to get the exact location of all tweets but the following analysis includes a representative sample of global twitter activity using the keyword Steemit or linking to a steemit article.

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Red = No Twitter Activity
Green = Twitter Activity

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