RE: 1000+ Followers Milestone Reached Means Time For Stats: How Important Is The Followers Metric Anyway?
First off, this is absolutely something interesting to look at, especially since the number of followers we have on Steemit is supposed to be related to engagement on posts (even though people pretty much treat it like any other social media site and follow to be followed).
If it's not related, if it's just like everywhere else in social media, then something needs to change if Steemit or something like it is to ever be the "best of the best of social media" as one commenter on a post I read described it.
Mine, I suspect, is much lower than 26% doing anything with what I post. My guess is that it's closer to 3-5%. I have not looked at it in depth, but base that guess off of who I regular interact with on my own content.
Of that 3-5%, there's one user that always does (I have just over 100 followers, so my percentage is pretty close to the actual number), and then the rest come in somewhere below always. :)
So, if you're numbers were to turn out to be anywhere near 26% of total followers, you would be in pretty good shape, considering the marketers baseline used to be 1-2% of the audience actually buying the product or doing something about the message.
Thanks for stopping by, I'm glad you found something interesting here. I would expect your numbers to be at least one bit higher than just a few percentage points. Remember, if somebody upvoted a single post in the beginning of January, followed me and I never heard of them again, they still count as an active follower by the standard I've used to compile the stats.
I think there are very different people here in the way they handle their feeds. There are some seasoned steemians who curate their feeds very carefully and make sure they follow only people they really want to hear from. A follow from a person like that is indeed worth a lot and the simply follow and feed system here works great in that case. But there are also people who simply follow everybody to get a follow-back and this is dead-weight padding on the number. That's why many people on here call the followers count a vanity metric.
The only thing that I think is wrong with the feed here (cause I like it unfiltered) is the fact that if you post at regular times of day, a follower from a different time zone who is usually asleep or otherwise engaged at the times you post at might miss all of your content.