The number of followers that is written on your Steemit profile can be misleading. Not all of your followers are alive on Steemit. There are some followers who have done no activity on Steemit for quite some time; hence called dead followers.
I was checking my list of dead followers and it seems to have risen to a fair percentage of my followers. As of the time of my check, a freaking 129 of my 797 followers were found dead.
16 % of my followers were found to be dead.
That's a whole lot of people. But the metrics that you use for calculating that number is also an important consideration. I calculated the number by keeping the criteria to the people whose last post was one month ago. Here's how my stats looked.
You can change metrics to votes and change the duration. Some of these dead people may be actively upvoting but not posting. So, you will have to use multiple criteria to get a good idea.
Let me come to the point now. There's an online tool where you enter your username and it shows you the number and names of your dead followers. The tool is called Dead Followers (obviously) and is developed by @mynameisbrian. You can access the tool right here.
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Nice tool! Thank you for introducing it to the community. Upvoted
I just checked and got better results! :D
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Glad to help. You've got a good list. True followers is the real number of followers.
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Totally agreed! :)
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yes, I've heard about that, another reason not to get too excited about "followers"
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The number of true followers as per this tool is more credible
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Interesting thanks :D
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Thanks for reading @jnel
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Really interesting, will check it out
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Thanks for your comment.
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You are always welcome
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I know a chap who like myself does not post on a regular basis and he's found a spot on the dead followers list how can I change that or can I ? interesting post will resteem it, thanks for sharing :)
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There isn't anything you can do about it. It's upto your followers to stay active or inactive. However, if you follow that person, it's of no use following
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guess I'll have to be mean and poke them with a stick ;)
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