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## Followers and Following
The follow feature got considerably more used by steemians since the update of our profile page last week. Follows are a very important statistic to track for authors, and it was a necessity to add it to SteemWhales.

* **Added followers and following counts** to tracked statistics. These numbers will take longer to refresh than other statistics because of the inability to get information for *more than 1 username at a time in the follow_api* of the blockchain.
* **Added a 'Social' Graph** on the user page to see the evolution of your followers, following, and reputation.

Here is the current TOP 50 by followers:

|Rank |    Username   |Followers| 
|-----|------------------|------| 
| #1  | @dollarvigilante | 2108 | 
| #2  | @dantheman       | 1323 | 
| #3  | @larkenrose      | 970  | 
| #4  | @lukewearechange | 923  | 
| #5  | @stellabelle     | 923  | 
| #6  | @corbettreport   | 862  | 
| #7  | @dan             | 832  | 
| #8  | @freedomnow      | 805  | 
| #9  | @steemitmarket   | 787  | 
| #10 | @gavvet          | 756  | 
| #11 | @ned             | 716  | 
| #12 | @sterlinluxan    | 624  | 
| #13 | @cryptoctopus    | 623  | 
| #14 | @dragonanarchist | 620  | 
| #15 | @falkvinge       | 590  | 
| #16 | @steemlinks      | 588  | 
| #17 | @blocktrades     | 567  | 
| #18 | @craig-grant     | 557  | 
| #19 | @donkeypong      | 548  | 
| #20 | @piedpiper       | 542  | 
| #21 | @masteryoda      | 541  | 
| #22 | @xeroc           | 538  | 
| #23 | @roelandp        | 526  | 
| #24 | @dragonslayer109 | 524  | 
| #25 | @andrarchy       | 522  | 
| #26 | @cryptogee       | 518  | 
| #27 | @kevinwong       | 511  | 
| #28 | @clains          | 510  | 
| #29 | @berniesanders   | 495  | 
| #30 | @fyrstikken      | 492  | 
| #31 | @heiditravels    | 479  | 
| #32 | @barrycooper     | 474  | 
| #33 | @jamtaylor       | 472  | 
| #34 | @tuck-fheman     | 471  | 
| #35 | @sirwinchester   | 467  | 
| #36 | @complexring     | 466  | 
| #37 | @kaylinart       | 465  | 
| #38 | @jacor           | 453  | 
| #39 | @arhag           | 446  | 
| #40 | @pfunk           | 443  | 
| #41 | @jesta           | 430  | 
| #42 | @smooth          | 422  | 
| #43 | @steemed         | 417  | 
| #44 | @pressfortruth   | 415  | 
| #45 | @infovore        | 413  | 
| #46 | @hisnameisolllie | 409  | 
| #47 | @rok-sivante     | 407  | 
| #48 | @fairytalelife   | 402  | 
| #49 | @anyx            | 401  | 
| #50 | @dana-edwards    | 401  | 
|...|...|...|
|#306| @heimindanger     |  89  |


## Steemians Activity
I added this feature in the rankings yesterday so some of you probably noticed it already. It is now possible to see which accounts are active and their last activity time/date. Every username now has a little icon with a color indicating the activity of the account so you can spot who is active or in vacation in a glance. Hovering the icon with your mouse will display full information.

This activity detects *any activity on the blockchain*, including market transactions, power-downs, and what-not.

![Activity Feature Preview](https://ipfs.pics/ipfs/QmRT42n16Th7GMaANgdMTtN8pxAH86AGbLRKiyPQ3a7jzE)

* Green > Last seen active **less than 12 hours** ago
* Red > Inactive for **48 hours or more**
* Orange > Otherwise

## About SteemWhales and Steem Promotion
A friend of mine has been running an ad on reddit for SteemWhales.com to prove the effectiveness of his advertising technique to me. **For a low-cost of $5, the ad was displayed 25000 times** on reddit and brought in almost 200 new visitors from diverse cryptocurrencies subreddits. [Campaign Stats](https://ipfs.pics/ipfs/QmTgx9r4kYiwTBieBhgfaKAQDp2pLLhEzwuJx8ViRVgXni)

I paid him for the succesful campaign and started a new one for the same cost. He gladly accepted the payment in BTC!

Considering some reddit users might be coming on SteemWhales without knowing about Steem, and because of a lack of text content for google to index, I created a straight-forward [about page](http://steemwhales.com/about/) that explains steem to potential new adopters. If you have any idea of what to add on this page, feel free to suggest in the comments. I was feeling very uninspired...

Finally, I improved the design of the user page, and I also sneaked in a little easter egg (free $5 for the person who comments about it first).

### [SteemWhales.com](http://steemwhales.com) keeps growing as the number of steem users grows. Thanks to everyone for your daily visit and continuous support.