resteem.com - Is this re-steeming service worth it? #bisteemit investigates...

abh12345 (80)in #bisteemit • 7 years ago (edited)

Analysis into how many true followers these services really have - Is $2 good value to re-steem your post for you?

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Introducing resteem.com

So you may have seen in your Wallet recently, a memo from @carlobelgado looking something like this:

Not seen this memo in the last 3 days? Sorry, you are not one of the lucky 2339 who have had this privilege!

Carlo, and his business partner @joanaltres offer a re-steem service for 2 SBD or 2 Steem and, as far as I am aware, are the longest service of this kind on the Steem Blockchain.

The following image is taken from their website - resteem.com

As you can see, the site looks quite professional, and the service boasts the ability to send to over 32,000 followers - and over 35,000 followers in the recent memo I received.

Sounds good - but lets have a look at the data before we send our crypto, eh?

Follower analysis

Using @arcange's lovely SteemSQL database, I've been doing a little data mining to see if these numbers add up, and if it's a wise decision to send crypto to this service.

Firstly, lets check how many followers they have combined:

SELECT count(*)
FROM [SQL.STEEMSQL.COM].[DBSteem].[dbo].[Followers] a WITH (NOLOCK)
WHERE following in ('carlobelgado','joanaltres')

= 35483

Looking good, even more than advertised!

Next, lets check how many followers they have combined, that do not appear as followers by both accounts:

SELECT DISTINCT follower
FROM [SQL.STEEMSQL.COM].[DBSteem].[dbo].[Followers] a WITH (NOLOCK)
WHERE following in ('carlobelgado','joanaltres')

= 23152

Hmmm, so that's a little less than advertised - the re-steem will reach this many unique accounts.

So this isn't too bad, the re-steem will still be going out to over 20,000 users. I wonder how many of them are 'active'?

In this example, I've chosen an active user to be someone who has voted in the past month - 31 days:

SELECT distinct follower
FROM [SQL.STEEMSQL.COM].[DBSteem].[dbo].[Followers] f WITH (NOLOCK)
INNER JOIN [SQL.STEEMSQL.COM].[DBSteem].[dbo].[Accounts] a ON f.follower = a.name
WHERE following in ('carlobelgado','joanaltres')
AND [last_vote_time] NOT BETWEEN GETDATE()-31 AND GETDATE()

= 10003

Just over 10000 of these users have voted in the past month.

And in the past week?

= 6530

The number of users likely to see (and potentially vote) on your blog looks to be around 80% less than the number I received in the memo yesterday.

Catch a whale, or dolphin?

While the above numbers look less promising than what's advertised, lets see if we could possibly catch a dolphin, or even a whale with this re-steem service.

The number of accounts with Steem Power greater than 5000 and less than 100,000 which are following this service, and have voted in the past month:

SELECT distinct follower
FROM [Followers] f WITH (NOLOCK)
INNER JOIN [Accounts] a ON f.follower = a.name
WHERE ((cast(left(vesting_shares, len(vesting_shares)-6) as float)486.681/1000000) > cast(5000 as float) AND >
(cast(left(vesting_shares, len(vesting_shares)-6) as float)486.681/1000000) < cast(100000 as float))
AND [last_vote_time] BETWEEN GETDATE()-31 AND GETDATE()
AND following in ('carlobelgado','joanaltres')

= 161

The number of accounts with Steem Power greater than 100,000, which are following this service, and have voted in the past month:

SELECT distinct follower
FROM [Followers] f WITH (NOLOCK)
INNER JOIN [Accounts] a ON f.follower = a.name
WHERE (cast(left(vesting_shares, len(vesting_shares)-6) as float)*486.681/1000000) > cast(100000 as float)
AND [last_vote_time] BETWEEN GETDATE()-31 AND GETDATE()
AND following in ('carlobelgado','joanaltres')

= 9

Not a vast number of big accounts looking at these re-steemed blogs at all.

Summary

Overall, the data behind this service is disappointing to me.

Clearly the numbers advertised are misleading as the account have a lot of overlap with regards to their followers.

Obviously, you cant expect every user who sees the re-steem to vote, but there are a lot less 'active' users than the number of followers stated by the memo and website.

The number of larger accounts that are following this service and 'active', total a very small percentage of the users who will see the re-steemed blog.

In conclusion, I think that 2 SBD or 2 Steem is a high enough price to pay for a re-steem. My suggestion.... write an awesome blog :)

Has anyone found success with resteem.com or do you have any tales of disappointment to share?

Edit: I just received another memo promoting the service - Should I send this blog and see what happens? 😁

awwwww 😊

_{I am part of a Steemit Business Intelligence community. We all post under the tag #bisteemit. If you have analysis you would like to be carried out on Steemit data, please do contact me or any of the #bisteemit team and we will do our best to help you.}

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_{Data was extracted for these reports at 11:00am CET on 11th November 2017}

Thanks for reading

Asher

#steemit #memo #busy #resteem

7 years ago in #bisteemit by abh12345 (80)

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dandesign86 (68) 7 years ago

No success to be honest. The whole problem with these resteeming service that no one who is seriously active will want to follow these accounts. Your feed will get mega packed and it just doesn't work.

I think I good idea would be to create VIP resteem. 1 dollar send in your post. The 4 best posts during the day are chosen based on content. That means that you could pay and not be resteemed that's the risk you would have to take.

Now to the followers of this VIP account. You would first have to build a base. I think a lot of bigger fish could agree to follow this channel if they knew there was a maximum of 4 posts resteemed per day also they would know that the best material was choosen.

This kind of service could allow for really good content to spread fast and get the attention of the big ones.

It could be a motivation for people to create top notch content in hope it can actually get some traction

If someone makes a resteeming channel like this I would follow

It could also be divided into categories as well som the people that follow her exactly the kind of content they would be interested in. VIP crypto resteem, VIP photography resteem etc

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mikepm74 (67) 7 years ago

If you have not already seen it, check out Buildawhale. It does a lot of what you are talking about here, but includes an upvote bot feature. So you send 1sbd or more to get the automated upvote, but then they also have a team of curators looking at every post submitted and selecting the best for their daily curation post.

The Buildawhale program is run by witness @themarkymark, and he is striving to make it the best in the business.

It's not exactly a resteem service, but being in their curation digest is no small thing. I've never managed to crack it personally. Haha

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