haha, but I guess you already have all those 160 followers from above. You'd need somebody to register another 10k accounts to follow you for your goal :D
You, as always, explain all the oddities on the Steem blockchain:-)
After my post a week ago, I instantly received more than 50 new followers. I asked Steemcleaners, but they do not deal with video posts. And since these accounts only post videos and do not receive big rewards, it turns out that they can not do anything here. Perhaps this is the birth of a new farm network, but so far they have not yet shown themselves.
Although, you know, they did one small useful thing: subscribing to all who posted in May, they counted all active users for this month. And it turns out that out of a million accounts we have something like 60 thousand active users, together with spammers and plagiarists.
Thanks, @erikaflynn! Actually they seem to miss a few active authors :) From the first graph in my post you can see that there were actually around 90k unique active users in May. But them following "only" around 60k may be due to the fact that this network only started to follow others around mid of May.
yes, finding 'organic' followers is actually not that easy. There are/were a couple of tools to look into follower activity like deadfollower (now dead as well), and just recently Steemit Followers, a tools by @firedream. However, as shown above, these bots actually also vote and post, so filtering them out as bot just based on activity does not work here.
I have a theory... Someone is creating a resteem bot.
Instead of taking the huge total user list from steemsql, with many accounts it is following the active users that posted.
There are many users who are in a automatic "follow-to-follow" system.
So when these bots are following, if they are followed back, they have a database of active users.
If you check these accounts, they are following 30k+ people and each of them is followed by 3k+ people.
This way, at some accounts they will have 10k+ active users that recently posts and they will start an efficient re-steem bot.
No proof, just a highly probable theory on motivation of these follower bot accounts.
I've always though the same thing why these would follow and then a few days unfollow and then follow again so that you as a user if you are not paying attention on the name would just be happy on the follow and follow back thus giving them more and more people who follow and when they are ripe they would advertise themselves as resteem services with 20-30k followers. Even famous people like anomadsoul has only 9k followers as compared to these barely with rep or posts that people would want to follow and read.
frankly I have never seen the merit of resteem services.
This might indeed be an option! I'm wondering if people are more likely to follow back if being followed right after post creation? Maybe it's more likely to notice the follow then? With that number of bots it actually seems to work :)
I started observing this after I joined musing.io recently. So my initial conclusion was it is related to musing alone. But then I realised that this is a recent phenomenon.
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Status for this post: around 50 new followers after 2 minutes - lets' see if if they are all in the list...
edit: actually it were 60 new follower after two minutes, and all of them are part of the list of accounts built from the analysis above.
Seems like a total wasted effort for these people considering the financial rewards. At this rate, I'll be at 20000 in no time! :D
haha, but I guess you already have all those 160 followers from above. You'd need somebody to register another 10k accounts to follow you for your goal :D
Thanks for the investigation!
You, as always, explain all the oddities on the Steem blockchain:-)
After my post a week ago, I instantly received more than 50 new followers. I asked Steemcleaners, but they do not deal with video posts. And since these accounts only post videos and do not receive big rewards, it turns out that they can not do anything here. Perhaps this is the birth of a new farm network, but so far they have not yet shown themselves.
Although, you know, they did one small useful thing: subscribing to all who posted in May, they counted all active users for this month. And it turns out that out of a million accounts we have something like 60 thousand active users, together with spammers and plagiarists.
Thanks, @erikaflynn! Actually they seem to miss a few active authors :) From the first graph in my post you can see that there were actually around 90k unique active users in May. But them following "only" around 60k may be due to the fact that this network only started to follow others around mid of May.
Yeah I love to see a query on the number of bots. So that we know the real number of humans being active on Steemit.
I observed that too and was surprised to see almost 40 followers after a post.
Some of the account also un follow after some days
This happened to my Charity account @giftinkindph just as I published my 2nd post the busy.org notifications sent my following reach almost 100.
It was insane and not a good indication on gauging your followers if they are organic or bots.
yes, finding 'organic' followers is actually not that easy. There are/were a couple of tools to look into follower activity like deadfollower (now dead as well), and just recently Steemit Followers, a tools by @firedream. However, as shown above, these bots actually also vote and post, so filtering them out as bot just based on activity does not work here.
I have a theory... Someone is creating a resteem bot.
Instead of taking the huge total user list from steemsql, with many accounts it is following the active users that posted.
There are many users who are in a automatic "follow-to-follow" system.
So when these bots are following, if they are followed back, they have a database of active users.
If you check these accounts, they are following 30k+ people and each of them is followed by 3k+ people.
This way, at some accounts they will have 10k+ active users that recently posts and they will start an efficient re-steem bot.
No proof, just a highly probable theory on motivation of these follower bot accounts.
FD.
I've always though the same thing why these would follow and then a few days unfollow and then follow again so that you as a user if you are not paying attention on the name would just be happy on the follow and follow back thus giving them more and more people who follow and when they are ripe they would advertise themselves as resteem services with 20-30k followers. Even famous people like anomadsoul has only 9k followers as compared to these barely with rep or posts that people would want to follow and read.
frankly I have never seen the merit of resteem services.
This might indeed be an option! I'm wondering if people are more likely to follow back if being followed right after post creation? Maybe it's more likely to notice the follow then? With that number of bots it actually seems to work :)
is it possible to send them a bill for wasting our time?
haha, try it :)
I started observing this after I joined musing.io recently. So my initial conclusion was it is related to musing alone. But then I realised that this is a recent phenomenon.
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TrufflePigInteresting anyalising it all I figured something similar.