More and more users will be joining steemit, the snowball effect I think has started and it only takes one big influencer to come over here for us to see exponentially increase in numbers of users thank to his/her fans.
The idea of rewarding users directly for their content is a killer to sites like twitter for example.
This project has a long way to go for sure! And we are lucky to be here.
Iv already got several friends interested!