50,000 people can&#x27;t be wrong

gigafart (57) · 7 years ago

I have been promoting Steemit like mad to investors.

The waitlist is definitely an issue. I'm not sure its purpose.

Is it a scaling concern? Are they manually vetting new sign ups?

This is the main thing that bothers me. The product is otherwise great.

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3 votes

steevc (73) · 7 years ago

They want to limit 'fake' accounts as those can take names people want and will use up their available SP for new accounts. I hope they can make it more automated. Just need to find ways that work for everyone. Not all have a Facebook account, but I guess a mobile phone is standard now. I would think they could exploit that other sites have validated people already. Doing it manually will not scale up. We need to reach millions of users to really get noticed and taken seriously.

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3 votes

britt.the.ish (55) · 7 years ago

Interesting stats! I honestly expected steemit to be getting more than 50k uniques in a day, it's still quite young. Imagine what happens when content is ranked much better in Google search results, should bring a massive influx of interest.

My account took about 12 hours to get approved for reference.

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17 votes

johano (59) · 7 years ago

Thanks for sharing @steve. Still feel strange when I meet people who don't know Steemit. It will be well known soon.

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steevc (73) · 7 years ago

It's not getting much media coverage. I hope the Steemit marketing team have something planned to change that

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davevandewalle (50) · 7 years ago

What's crazy is that I'm new and this reminds me of Twitter's early days. All the way up to "hey this guy is going to use Twitter to create a seven-figure business."

However, throw in the blockchain and cryptocurrency and people get confused AF and are all like "what???"

Good post.

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steevc (73) · 7 years ago

Cheers. It is very different to anything else out there. People don't understand where the money comes from, but it's really just like Bitcoin and that is widely accepted

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3 votes

thatsweeneyguy (61) · 7 years ago

That's all great news! I've been talking to a lot of friends about joining up, but a lot of them are still pretty skeptical I guess... Their loss though! I'm still trying to get through to a few people, because I feel they would be GREAT additions to the community.

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steevc (73) · 7 years ago

The more cool people we have here the more attractive it will be. There's really nothing to lose by signing up. Even just commenting can make you something.

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thatsweeneyguy (61) · 7 years ago

Got my girlfriend, @cryptomomma, to sign up. She's already made about $30 on her introduction post in less than 24 hours!

I now have a debit card from https://bitpay.com, which is going to make it very easy to prove to people they can earn money in the real world with this.

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steevc (73) · 7 years ago

I'm looking to get a debit card soon and I'll be sure to post about that when I do

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thatsweeneyguy (61) · 7 years ago

bitpay is a great option! Only costs $10 to order the card, and I just withdraw SBD to poloniex, then deposit BTC to my account on bitpay. Easy peasy, and my money can be withdrawn from an atm usually within 30 minutes.

steevc (73) · 7 years ago

Not sure if they operate in the UK. Bitwala do and you can deposit steem directly to your account. Just need to sort some ID docs for them

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thatsweeneyguy (61) · 7 years ago

Nice. I'll have to look into that one too. Always looking for better options as far as fees and ease of use.

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sanees (54) · 7 years ago

This is more like reddit than fb so target is different

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leongkhan (64) · 7 years ago

I enjoy the estimated site value ($226k) which assumes we are monetizing using CPC or CPM. Little do they know that blockchain tech is worth 20 times that :)

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steevc (73) · 7 years ago

They assume everyone relies on ads. This is one of the reasons I was attracted to steemit. I don't think ads scale for a site like this

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kus-knee (74) · 7 years ago

It's always intereting to see these stats. The sign ups is an issue but on the other side of the coin it does somehow make an Account more desirable and valuable.

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lordoftruth (71) · 7 years ago

Thanks for sharing mate
Always wait for your update
Please check https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@lordoftruth/come-and-hang-with-us-let-steemit-change-your-world
Have a graet weekend

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sanees (54) · 7 years ago

True ..how many steem it accounts so far? If you think about steemit has to grow better than facebook because every one is a stake holder!!!! But my biggest gripe is about the clutter....This needs to be much simpler and straightforward...

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steevc (73) · 7 years ago

184000 accounts according to https://steemd.com/

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pinkielady (56) · 7 years ago

Thanks for sharing, but hey, that's not the dutch flag!! lol.

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steevc (73) · 7 years ago

I didn't notice that. It looks like the Argentinian flag. Oops

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pinkielady (56) · 7 years ago

lol. I think you are right!

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teamhumble (74) · 7 years ago

i had some website 503 errors today, so in some ways scaling up the users i think makes sense. here comes everybody! :) - thank you for spending the time making these stats.

bluehorseshoe (61) · 7 years ago

I love that data, thank you.
Upvoted and followed!

jumowa (65) · 7 years ago

It would be a chill ride when ad sponsors would come although steemit is not relying on them. really comforting

steevc (73) · 7 years ago

People can put ads on their posts and I've seen some do so, or at least have affiliate links. I do those myself for a couple of things. It's up to the users if they want this

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abudar (66) · 7 years ago

Interesting post

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steevc (73) · 7 years ago

Not so interesting comment. Sorry, but I don't vote up generic comments

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