I noticed a significant increase in followers as well. Got about 100 followers within minutes, all bots. What is that all about? Who would benefit from this? That's pretty interesting. Usually nothing happens without somebody having some kind of advantage by doing it. Weird.
They have a purpose, to make resteem "services" that would take money in exchange for a resteem. They follow you because they hope some people will follow back,and when that happens and they reach a high number of followers, they open a resteem service like @hottopic.
I am trying to find a solution to this for some time, but I can't find a good one to get implemented. I have also opened an issue on github, if you have any suggestion about it, you could leave it under Your voice matters :)
It would be good to see the average value of STEEM Power held by all the followers of these resteem bots/humans (which some claim to be)
If their followers are all plankton then the resteem service makes little commercial sense.
Maybe you can make something similar to steembottracker but for resteemers? That would put a lot of them out of business.
Wow, this is a really good idea, I will see what I can do about it, thanks a lot for sharing!
Thanks, please keep me posted on progress.
I would love to see STEEM grow and become more useable.
It's a bit like cleaning your house before inviting guests. I am not pushing steem on Facebook or Twitter because if people come now, they won't stick around
This is entirely true, very few people are staying on the platform these days, but with time it will get better. I will keep you updated!
Got it, thanks! That makes sense. Wherever there is a nickel to be made, an a$$hole will try to take advantage of the naivety of the sheeple :)
I am glad that I was helpful :D
I thought I was following you....mmm...strange.
I'm on a 'new following' list....I feel a slump going on, in steemit...
Feels like a slump for me as well. So many people I used to converse with are not posting anymore. I now have 700 followers and average 20 upvotes on a post. That does not make much sense...