If you joined Steemit in May 2017 then you celebrated your Steemit birthday with 8,347 other Steemains. What an awesome achievement to see you are still posting or still curating. Congratulations and welcome to the One Year Club. 

It is commonly known that the retention rate on Steemit is rather low, so if your Steemit birthday was in May and you are reading this, let it be known that you have achieved a lot.  You are an early adaptor of an experimental platform and you deserve to be acknowledged. 

To celebarte your 1 year Steemit Birthday I have some data to present to you.  Data that proves you are special

  

In May 2017 20,482 new accounts registered on Steemit.  Of this 10,701 have never made a post.  That means almost 48% or 9,871 accounts made post or comments on the platform.

Did you know that the % of new steemains that joined in April 17 that made a post or comment was lower at only 46% and March users was only 36%?

From this 9,781 accounts, a further 2,918 accounts stopped posting by day 20 and have not posted since and only 1,568 accounts have posted in the last 45 days. If you are one of these 1,568 accounts you make up only 7.5% of the 20,482 users that registered on Steemit in May 2017.

  

These 20,482 accounts own 3.43M SP between them.  They have received 935.78K SP in delegation and have given out 723.2K in delegation.  This leaves a controlling SP of 3.64M SP.  From the data above we can also see that the 9,781 accounts that posted made over 2.25M posts earning a whopping 1.12bn in author rewards and also 142.32M in curator rewards.

Taking the same dataset but now adding a filter to exclude any users that have not posted.  The 9,781 accounts that have posted own 91% of the SP owned by everyone that joined in May and they are in control of 91% of the controlling SP

 

There is however a different between the curation rewards earned on all accounts registered in May17 to the accounts with active authors.  This difference of 2.05 M or 1.5% of curation reward earned by accounts registered in May 17 went to curators, or accounts that have never posted just voted.

We spoke about retention, but just to let you visualised when the accounts were dropping off.  The chart below plots the number of days since last post against the no of days registered on Steemit.  The deeper the colour the more users.

We can see on the right of this chart high population of deep colours.  This represents the users that registered and either never posted or haven’t posted in 350+ days.  As we move to the left of the chart we can see the drop off slows down considerably at around 320 days to 150 days, on the left there is a high concentration of accounts posting, which represents the 7.5% of accounts that have posted in the last 45 days.

  

The table below plots the 9,781 identified authors against the number of days active and the SP Owned. We can see most accounts have an SP of less than 1.5K until we get to accounts active 275+ days where a number of accounts have an SP of up to 50K.   We can also see a number of outliers that have higher than average SP owned.

  

If we run the same chart with ALL the account that registered in May 17 not much changes except over on the left there is a new outlier with just under 32K SP

  

So who are the movers and shakers that registered in May ‘17

First I filtering the data to show accounts that never posted.  This table was then sorted to show those owning the most SP.

  

Next I have filtered the data to show the users that have been active in the last 45 days. The table below shows this data sorted by SP owned 

  

And the table below shows the same data but this time sorted the posting rewards earned (shown in vests)

  

While sorting through this data I found a number of accounts that registered in May 2017 but only made their first or second post in the last 45 days.  Welcome back dudes and dudesses.  Glad you have joined us.

  

Looking at all May 2017 accounts now and sorting by the number of posts and comments made.

 

Finally I did some totting on data relating to inactive author accounts.

18.92K accounts set up in May 17 have an SP of 50 or less.  The total SP owned by these accounts is 95.05K.   Of this 10.48K accounts have never posted or commented. The total of SP owned by these accounts is 41.26K

Conclusion

The % author retention from May 17 is only 7.5%, however these accounts own 91% of the SP owned by all of the accounts registered that month. In the last 45 days, we seen a return of 14 Steemains to the platform that were previously considered dead fish.  Although only a small value, it is nice to see this claw back.

How many of the accounts do you recognize?

There are a few familiar names such as  @jerrybanfield, @reggaemuffin, @choogirl, @jonny-clearwater, @followbtcnews, @bitgeek, @stackin, @clixmoney, @gmuxx, @valued-customer, @tremendospercy, @rt395, @thatsweeneyguy, @zappl, @akrid and @swelker101  to name just a few. Hope you all enjoyed your Steemit Birthday!

Did you know I am 50% of the Steemit Witness @Steemcommunity with @abh12345 being the second half.  If you have a vote to spare, then vote now and don’t let your voice go unheard.

The Data and Analysis

This analysis was prepared using Power BI to connect to Steemsql

The SQL query used was

select * from Accounts NOLOCK where    ( created >= CONVERT(DATE,'2017-05-01') AND created< CONVERT(DATE,'2017-06-01'))

From here I used the M language in Power BI query editor to remove any columns I did not need, before I loaded the data into the model. The data was extracted 20 May 18

From here I then carried out analysis, calculations and modelling using DAX 

The aim of this analysis was to establish the retention of authors based on users registered in May 2017 and also visualize the SP growth of active authors after 1 year on Steemit.  Its aim was also to celebrate and identify users that have remained active for the last year.