The 100 most popular Steemit posts of all time!

trogdor (64)in #views • 7 years ago (edited)

The 100 most-viewed posts on Steemit

Hi all, welcome back to my blog. If you have been following me for a while, you probably know that I occasionally like to dig into the data and try to find some interesting results. Recently I've been taking a look at the view counts of different posts on Steemit, and I decided to make a list of the most popular posts of all time. This is actually a non-trivial problem, since view counts are not actually available through any public API, and of course they are not stored on the blockchain. Only Steemit, Inc. has access to the database of page view counts, so needless to say it was a slightly difficult process to actually acquire these values.

But, without further ado, I would like to present the 100 most-viewed posts of all time! Note that steemit.com only started recording views sometime in late 2016, so this does not include views from before that time, and of course this does not include post views through any other block explorer.

	Author	Title	Number of Views	Link
1	@quickfingersluc	How i turned $300 into $50,000 in one year trading Crypto currency	379182	Link
2	@thegrinder	The BitConnect scam exposed	337795	Link
3	@project7	[중국 VS USDT] 암호화폐 1세기의 종말, 그리고 2세기로의 전환	209647	Link
4	@eosio	EOS.IO DAWN 2.0 Released & Development Update	208771	Link
5	@tobeingawhale	Verge - Price Prediction	139686	Link
6	@asbear	[코인 깃허브 점검] 아인슈타이늄 (EMC2) 스캠입니다	119510	Link
7	@steemitguide	2017 List of Big Companies that Accept Bitcoin & Cryptocurrencies	117821	Link
8	@haejin	RIPPLE to Wave towards $15.44 or Higher!!	109362	Link
9	@kingscrown	The best Cryptocurrencies to mine with GPU/CPU right now	106964	Link
10	@haejin	RIPPLE (XRP) Projected to Make TSUNAMI Profits!!	103370	Link
11	@theshadowbrokers	Lost in Translation	98062	Link
12	@docdelux	New Age Bullshit Part 1 - Self Proclaimed "Lightworkers"	97485	Link
13	@haejin	VERGE (XVG): New ALL TIME HIGHS DEAD AHEAD!!	89517	Link
14	@bitcoinshirtz	A Full List Of Bitcoin Debit Cards For 2017	83367	Link
15	@haejin	VERGE EXPLOSION ALERT!! VERGE is about to GEYSER OUT of the Triangle !!	80636	Link
16	@admljy19	1월 20일은 코인시장의 둠즈데이(Dooms Day)가 될 가능성이 높다	77451	Link
17	@kingscrown	Stop Using Blockfolio App - Its Calling Home with Too Much Info (+Small Safety Tutorial)	75297	Link
18	@bbrewer	10 Things You Should Know About EOS	70435	Link
19	@heimindanger	Introducing DTube: a decentralized video platform using STEEM and IPFS	69406	Link
20	@haejin	Tutorial on Elliott Wave Counting Lesson 1; by @haejin	67457	Link
21	@haejin	Stellar Lumens (XLM) Target $2.75 (343% Profit Potential!!)	63927	Link
22	@haejin	Verge (XVG) Target $1.70....How? Here is my ANALYSIS!!	60232	Link
23	@jerrybanfield	Cryptocurrency Price Predictions for October 2017!	57554	Link
24	@haejin	TRON (TRX) Update: A Closer Look Analysis	57289	Link
25	@jerrybanfield	Cryptocurrency Price Predictions for September 2017!	56380	Link
26	@haejin	VERGE (XVG): Baby, Mommy & PaPa Fractals!!!	55653	Link
27	@haejin	RIPPLE (XRP) Is Becoming a PROFIT TSUNAMI!! Target $4.11 (200% Profit Potential)	54505	Link
28	@haejin	RIPPLE (XRP) Update: Can you sing a,b,c,d,e???	53818	Link
29	@haejin	LITECOIN (LTC)...What's Going on with the High VOLUME? Here is my Analysis!!	53426	Link
30	@haejin	VERGE (XVG): The Hurry Up & Wait Syndrome	53396	Link
31	@haejin	RedCoin (RDD) is RED HOT!! Target is $0.0821 (>800% Profit Potential!!)	52556	Link
32	@kingscrown	The Best Coins to mine with GPU/CPU right now (ETH algo rocking it!)	51648	Link
33	@an0nkn0wledge	The Curious Case Of The Death Of Joe Scarborough's Intern Lori Klausutis	51445	Link
34	@jerrybanfield	8 Digital Currency Exchanges with USD to Bitcoin!	48603	Link
35	@haejin	CIVIC (CVC) to Make Orgasmic Lunges Toward Target $11.26!!! (1,137% Profit Potential!!)	46578	Link
36	@haejin	EOS: IMMINENT EXPLOSION!! Revised Target $22.63!!	44837	Link
37	@haejin	TRON (TRX): Price EXPLOSION Could be IMMINENT!!	44827	Link
38	@henry-gant	Bitconnect investing misinformation - before I wised up: What you must know about your bitconnect investment.	44616	Link
39	@joseph	Coinbase is looking for the next coin to add to it's exchange, Please Fill this form for Steem	44060	Link
40	@lukestokes	The Cryptocurrency Bank Spreadsheet	43910	Link
41	@quickfingersluc	Introduction video: my new Trading Video Series for Steemit	43784	Link
42	@haejin	TRON (TRX): Breakout Expected at Any Moment!!	42445	Link
43	@deanpress	Antshares from China: The Highest Potential & Most Undervalued Crypto-Currency on the Market	42405	Link
44	@lennartbedrage	The Ripple(XRP) Effect - Fundamental Analysis	42201	Link
45	@sandwich	EOS Crowdsale with MyEtherWallet - The Complete Guide	41186	Link
46	@jerrybanfield	Cryptocurrency Price Predictions for July 2017!	40503	Link
47	@olyup	FCK/YOU Money: The Rise and Fall of XRP	40347	Link
48	@mindover	Steemit for Dummies (like me) - Everything you need to know in simple terms	39778	Link
49	@trogdor	EOS vs. Ethereum for Dummies!	38876	Link
50	@someguy123	Amazon soon to accept Bitcoin/Litecoin!	38830	Link
51	@donkeypong	Still Confused by Steem, Steem Dollars, and Steem Power? The Power Plant Analogy	38714	Link
52	@haejin	RIPPLE (XRP): Don't Confuse the Trees for the Forest!! Target $4.11!!!	38613	Link
53	@haejin	TRON (TRX) Starting Wave 3 of 3...Target $0.21 (120% Profit Potential)	38238	Link
54	@haejin	VERGE (XVG/BTC) Loves Triangles....Check out this Chart!!	38188	Link
55	@haejin	Tron	36795	Link
56	@haejin	Bitcoin (BTC) Morning Update: Landing Zones	36529	Link
57	@project7	테더 (Tether)의 진실 - 팩트와 카더라	36507	Link
58	@maa	코인 투자에서 돈을 잃지 않는 방법 (1)	35531	Link
59	@thecryptofiend	The Missing FAQ - A Beginners Guide To Using Steemit	35522	Link
60	@haejin	EOS Video Analysis: Target $42.12 (367% Profit Potential)	34790	Link
61	@haejin	EOS is Ready to Make Orgasmic Lunges Upwards AGAIN!! Target $22.63!!	34045	Link
62	@haejin	EOS Technical Analysis with Target $46.12	33710	Link
63	@haejin	Bitcoin (BTC) Morning Update: This Correction Too Shall Pass....!!	33231	Link
64	@granturismo	비트코인 캐시, 계획된 음모	33166	Link
65	@dan	Peer Review of Cardano's Ouroboros	32807	Link
66	@dana-edwards	What happens if you withdraw $1 million dollars from Coinbase into your bank?	30655	Link
67	@dutch	BitShares is Going to Dominate Crypto in 2018 - Here's Why!	30327	Link
68	@haejin	LiteCoin (LTC): When in Doubt...It's a Triangle!	30218	Link
69	@haejin	Bitcoin (BTC) Morning Update: A Third Alternate Count	30197	Link
70	@haejin	TRON (TRX) Head & Shoulders Spotted for $0.178 Target potential	29426	Link
71	@haejin	VERGE (XVG) Is Following Bitcoin (BTC)	29344	Link
72	@haejin	Monaco (MCO) Offers No Tax Haven for the Wealthy; but Extends an Opportunity to Profit MASSIVELY!!	29028	Link
73	@looftee	Caution: Are You Storing Cryptocurrency On Exchanges Like Poloniex, Bittrex?	28693	Link
74	@hilarski	My 2017 Bitcoin and Crypto Currency Predictions.	28679	Link
75	@haejin	Ethereum (ETH) Shorter and Longer Degree of Trend Waves....Target $2,659; but NOT without Corrections!!	28563	Link
76	@haejin	Ox (ZRX) Analysis: If you missed the VERGE Rocket..get on board this SpaceShip!! 600% Profit Potential!!	28141	Link
77	@eosio	The Dawn of EOS.IO	27999	Link
78	@haejin	STEEM: BTFD!! Explosion IMMINENT!! Target $14 Dead Ahead!!	27979	Link
79	@twinbraid	하드 포크, 소프트 포크의 초보적 개념	27959	Link
80	@ericvancewalton	Announcing My New Book – The Perfect Pause: Meditating Your Way to the Ultimate You	27560	Link
81	@haejin	VERGE (XVG) Shorter Term Update: $0.48!!	27494	Link
82	@jacobts	STEEM to $1,000 . Price Prediction	27389	Link
83	@haejin	Bitcoin (BTC) Evening Update: A Directional Resolution is Needed	27336	Link
84	@haejin	Bitcoin Cash (BCH): $10,805 Target!!!	27113	Link
85	@sirwinchester	Music Industry: The Gate To Hell - Justin Bieber Speaks Out About Pedophilia & Abuse In Hollywood	27112	Link
86	@neilstrauss	Elon Musk: The Unedited, Uncensored Version of My Rolling Stone Cover Story	27036	Link
87	@haejin	SALT: Higher Degree of Trend Elliott Waves Show 0.005734 BTC Target (845% Profit Potential!!)	26910	Link
88	@noisy	We just hacked 11 accounts on Steemit! ~$21 749 in STEEM and SBD is under our control. But we are good guys ?? So...	26815	Link
89	@haejin	ReddCoin (RDD) Showing Bullish Wedge!!	26733	Link
90	@haejin	DASH is Ready to JUMP Again!! Target $1,987	26331	Link
91	@lukestokes	Step By Step: Getting Your Bitcoin Cash out of a Bitcoin Paper Wallet	26174	Link
92	@haejin	BTC Morning Update: Head & Shoulders Spotted!!	26059	Link
93	@jerrybanfield	#1 Coinbase Tip: Transfer Wallet Funds to GDAX!	25854	Link
94	@haejin	Cardano (ADA) Targeted for $2.73 or HIGHER!!	25839	Link
95	@leesunmoo	eos VS 이더리움	25833	Link
96	@wolfofpoloniex	Bare Basics of Trading Cryptocurrency	25819	Link
97	@haejin	FirstBlood (1st) Bleeds GOLDEN PROFITS!!! It's JUST STARTING!!!	25777	Link
98	@heimindanger	D.Tube 0.6: Pushing it to the limit	25680	Link
99	@theshadowbrokers	TheShadowBrokers Monthly Dump Service - July 2017	25649	Link
100	@haejin	STEEM Dollar (SBD) Readying to EXPLODE!! Target $21.95 or higher	25540	Link

Who are the biggest contributors to the top 100 list?

Well, interestingly, love him or hate him, @haejin is generating a crazy amount of traffic on Steemit. He has by far the most highly-viewed posts of any user.

Author	Number of top 100 most-viewed posts
@haejin	45
@jerrybanfield	5
@kingscrown	3
@eosio	2
@heimindanger	2
@lukestokes	2
@project7	2
@quickfingersluc	2
@theshadowbrokers	2

I was also surprised and very happy to see that my post on EOS vs. Ethereum also made the top 100 list! :D

I hope this information is interesting for you! I believe this is the first post that dug in to the post view count data, so I'm hoping to look further into the data and see if any other interesting results pop out at me. But in the meantime, I wish you all the best!
Best wishes,
Trogdor :)

#steem #steemit #statistics #top100

7 years ago in #views by trogdor (64)

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v4vapid (72) 7 years ago (edited)

Thanks for compiling this list, it's quite interesting.

We see a lot of the same names, such as @haejin, again and again but we can also see that a few of the most viewed posts are from Steemians who don't receive a lot of attention inhouse.

I'm thinking of @docdelux, who's an excellent writer,has a large following on facebook, but has had difficulty gaining traction on Steemit. IF you don't know about @docdelux, seriously, go check out some of his previous posts!

Also, I found that an eye-opening article by @an0nkn0wledge with over 51,000 views is curiously missing from the list. Maybe you could add it in;)

https://steemit.com/politics/@an0nkn0wledge/the-curious-case-of-the-death-of-joe-scarborough-s-intern-lori-klausutis

Cheers, good stuff!

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trogdor (64) 7 years ago

Hey v4vapid! Thanks for stopping by :) I'm glad you found it interesting. It is interesting about @haejin, how he hardly interacts with followers, and yet he generates a tremendous amount of views. I know that people accuse him of abusing the reward pool, but I think if we actually considered his average rewards per page view, I have a feeling they would be surprisingly low compared to some other authors. Just something to think about, personally I like to avoid controversy! :)

Thank you for pointing out the post that I missed! I limited my search to posts with more than 50 votes and/or more than 50 comments, because I assumed that would include the most viewed posts. Apparently I missed at least one! Unfortunately the view counts are not actually available anywhere except on the specific pages, so the only way to retrieve them is with a web-crawler, and with slowing that down appropriately so as not to create a load on the website, it would take weeks to crawl through all the millions of posts! haha

I will certainly add the post that you mentioned, and once again, thanks for stopping by!

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v4vapid (72) 7 years ago

Love him or hate him, the data shows that he's generating a lot of views and bringing eyeballs to steemit content. I think he could reduce the number of posts per day by combining several posts into one and perhaps people would view this as less 'rapey'.

As far as your research goes, i TOTALLY understand. Recently I've been manually compiling statistics for a series I do on missing children and it's very painstaking work.
I can appreciate how difficult it must be making a comprehensive list like this with millions of posts out there!

One last thing, like another commenter here mentioned, you're 2 pieces on ETH vs EOS were very enlightening. So thanks for putting that together. EOS really is one of the most exciting projects under development.

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abh12345 (76) 7 years ago

Sorry to butt in here!

I want to, but can't consider page views as a reliable metric for analysis as the count is upped each time you refresh the page yourself.

If this view could be shown as unique, that would cut down (but not eliminate - multiple browsers, cache/IP refresh/change) the risk of gaming. It's quite easy to find an app/write a program that refreshes your page constantly and so I would be weary of using this as an accurate sign of popularity.

Cheers!

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v4vapid (72) 7 years ago

Oh for real? I hadn't noticed that a refresh would increase the view count. And to be honest I never considered that someone might build an app to constantly refresh their page/views, but why wouldn't someone try that in order to create a buzz around their work. Thanks for bringing this up, I guess that means view statistics should be viewed with a grain of salt.

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rocking-dave (57) 7 years ago (edited)

View counters like that are extremely easy to manipulate and so would be the ones counting unique views. Anybody who might be getting flack for posting a lot of low quality content for big rewards might have an incentive to bloat that metric, so they might appear to be adding "surprisingly high" value to the blockchain. I think it's extremely likely to have posts like that on here already as building the required app is really easy even for people with very low levels of technical skills.

So the conclusion that he's bringing a lot of views to the steemit blockchain remains questionable.

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abh12345 (76) 7 years ago (edited)

Yeah, give a blog a refresh (or 3) and see what happens.

I think also that there is no central store on the Blockchain of viewer count across the web front end applications (eSteem, busy.org, etc) and so the numbers become even more skewed when you factor this in.

why wouldn't someone try that in order to create a buzz around their work

I suspect it's already happening in some cases....

cheers!

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lukestokes (75) 7 years ago

Very cool! Thanks for putting this together. I was really surprised to see @haejin generating so many views. From an investor standpoint, maybe the rewards he's been receiving might actually have some justifications? Or, to think about it another way, do his rewards generate the amount of views he gets? I'd love to see @steemit chime in with some more detailed analytics in the future.

Very cool to see two of my posts made the list. In both cases, they were things which I thought would be really valuable to a wider audience outside of Steemit. I'm glad to see so many people benefitted from those posts. :)

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trogdor (64) 7 years ago

Thanks for reading! I was also surprised to see @haejin dominating the list. I'm sure some of those are just related to the overall controversy surrounding him, but I think he probably is actually generating a good deal of traffic aside from that just by how dominating he is in the list. I'm planning to start calculating a metric for different authors of average number of views per dollar of rewards, and I have a feeling he will have a surprisingly high metric. I'll be sure to throw you into the calculation just to satisfy your curiosity! :)

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rocking-dave (57) 7 years ago

I'd say we shouldn't exclude the possibility that those views are bloated with view bots just to give him an additional layer of credibility, so his defenders might have a number to point to or for us to be having this conversation about how surprised we are that he is bringing in value. Those views would be super easy to manipulate.

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craigcryptoking (69) 7 years ago

I would love to be 'thrown' into the mix too at some point for my weekly contest whom @lukestokes was 'introduced' to last week when we hit top numbers again for the day on comments (3 weeks running) Most number of comments for a newbie? What would be the classification of a newbie however as I am 5 months in. Statistics are SOOooo interesting till now I was under the impression it was only @arcange doing it. Nice one bud, very interesting indeed and thanks a ton.. Cheer$;)

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fingolfin (61) 7 years ago

I've always viewed you as a top 100 steemian and I am glad to see the numbers back it up.

I wonder what a list of the most views/least amount of reward per view would look like. MIght be a decent way to find some truly underappreciated authors.

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trogdor (64) 7 years ago

Hey thanks for reading! Not sure I deserve your compliment, I wish I had some more free time to work on posts, etc... But anyway, great minds think alike, because what you mentioned is exactly on the docket for my next post! :) I have been curious for awhile to calculate views per reward to identify underappreciated authors, I'm just not sure exactly what criteria to simplify the search for. For example, for this post I only searched posts with more than 50 comments or more than 50 votes, just because it takes so long to crawl the different pages. So if you have any suggestions for how to simplify the search for underappreciated authors that would be helpful! For example only authors with more than 20 posts, etc...

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nathen007 (68) 7 years ago (edited)

What a great bit of interesting research and it surely makes great reading but its so sad they are almost all about Crypto. This community is about so much more.
It would be perhaps more pertinent if we could have a league table of the top 100 posts based on time spent viewing as opposed to just views.
Very interesting but a little saddened!
Regards

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trogdor (64) 7 years ago

That would be interesting to add, unfortunately I have no idea how to figure out time spent viewing :)

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backlau (37) 7 years ago

Thanks for the information @trogdor! I can't wait to go through all of these!

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trogdor (64) 7 years ago

No problem, thanks for reading :)

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backlau (37) 7 years ago

No problem. Glad to see you make it on the list as well :) I can easily see you making more top posts in the future!

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darksea (55) 7 years ago

woow Very interesting information. This is the first time I see such an activity at steemit. It's really a very successful work. The list clearly shows @haejin hegemony. Though content and sharing deserve it. Thank you very much for informing us about this. @trogdor

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trogdor (64) 7 years ago

Thanks for reading!

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mrsexappeal (48) 7 years ago

wait a minute? my name should be here! hhahaha :D now i know most of the successful articles has crypto topic on it.. need to make quality post now so i can see my name there.. thanks for this @trogdor your the best! :')