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Steemit in the news by steevc

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· @steevc ·
$3.73
Steemit in the news
I keep an eye out for mentions of Steem and Steemit on news sites. Here's a couple I found this week.

# EconoTimes (Alexa rank 144,752)

They write about how Steem is [disrupting social media](https://www.econotimes.com/Steem-Disrupting-traditional-social-media-by-incentivizing-users-1419534). There's mention of SMTs, but they call it Steem Media Token. There's a brief description of the various currency types and what witnesses do. They also emphasise the scalability, i.e. '200x faster than Bitcoin'. They have the dates for HF20 and SMTs. There's a bit about the Steem and SBD prices and when it's good to buy. It's a bit like a Wikipedia article with a little opinion thrown in. It doesn't say who wrote it, so we can't check if they are using Steemit.

# The Investor (Alexa rank 295,692)

This is a Korean site in English. [Their piece](http://www.theinvestor.co.kr/view.php?ud=20180824000569) slightly contradicts the aboce with a headline 'Steemit feels no need to disrupt Facebook'. Steemit has a big Korean userbase making up over an 8th of the users, according to [Hypestat](https://hypestat.com/info/steemit.com). They say Korean companies are adoption SMTs to launch blockchain projects. They talk to researcher Cho Jae Woo, who is apparently the only Korean witness in the top 21. He says it's impossible to beat Facebook, but Steemit has a different target audience. It mentions how much he makes as a witness, but most of it goes on maintaining his system. I wonder what he is spending it on.

# General Steemit stats

The [web stats from Hypestat](https://hypestat.com/info/steemit.com) show a fairly flat graph for the Alexa rank recently. It's hovering around 1800. USA, Korea, India, Japan and Germany are the top five countries for users. The UK has been dropping lately.

![Hypestat](https://img.esteem.ws/bg6fwh5z4t.png) 

I hope we can drive up the numbers a bit in the run-up to the pending updates and Steemfest. We need to keep the conversations going without over-hyping it. Here's a cryptocurrency with fast, free transfers and a very active user community. That should count for something despite all the issue we see. We want freedom, but that can bring problems that we have to find ways to deal with.

I still believe in Steem. Do you?

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@banditqueen ·
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steemit rocks but in my opinion its like a dark web with dark people involved too .done intensive research. but way better than other social media platforms where they make for themselves and sell your data to other corporate. The rabbit hole is much deeper then we all think. But we like steemit
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@steevc ·
There are good people here too. At least we have the chance to make something great
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@banditqueen ·
of course there are. you are one of the best rockstar. love your posts and your music. you rock
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@beautifulbullies ·
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I still believe in Steem.  I think once the market starts to recover, the users will come back.  Thank you for pulling all these stats together @steevc!
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@chesatochi ·
I am a Steemit junky and is the first thing I check in the morning.
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@doctorhealth ·
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I request you to make a charity post for Kerala,India.
Kerala flood has caused so much misery to the peoples there, so it's time for us to come forward and let's make this steemit platform to make a little help.
So I request you to make a post on Kerala flood and challenge other fellow steemit whales and donate that post earning to flood relief fund.
It may help someone.
Thank you
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@steevc ·
I am happy to donate to verified charities that are doing relief work, but I don't think I can contribute too much here. I don't want to be responsible for passing on donations from others. Unfortunately we cannot trust all who say they are collecting for good causes.
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@doctorhealth ·
Yes but you can make donation from your own by creating a post and donate the amount whatever that post earns and it can make others also aware of this as you are one of the good steemit personality .
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@gabriel90sson ·
The more mainstream notice, the better. I believe in steem now and always
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@jeezzle ·
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Well,  I think things are going to go one of two ways for Steem. I think it's going to happen hard-and-fast..... either all the way up or all the way down..

It's really nice to see us getting on the news even if it's something like econotimes and not CNN.

My buddy put a bunch of money into Facebook at the very beginning when it seemed like it was just going to slide into the abyss like Myspace did. He is now really and seriously able to retire if he should decide to at a very early age.
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@steevc ·
The advantage of Steem over platforms run on a commercial basis is that it is not so easy to shut down. As long as we have active witnesses and some way to access it we can keep using it. The price of Steem is not the only indicator of success.
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@mattclarke ·
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Lots of users moving to steempeak.com, myself and many friends included. 
That's going to hurt steemit.com results.
We may never see it break the top 1000 again, even with millions of active users. 
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@steevc ·
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I appreciate that people are using Steem through other services. Busy, Dtube and eSteem are all big, but I think the Steemit site may still represent 90% of the user accesses. I see Steempeak is [still fairly small](https://hypestat.com/info/steempeak.com), but it should grow if it gives a good service. I'm not sure I've used it. Most people will at least start off on Steemit for now.
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@chesatochi ·
I prefer the old classic interface of Steemit.com.
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@snow.owl ·
I absolutely BELIEVE! This is the future of Social Media. So how many picks have you bought already for SBD hahaha! Pleasure to meet you here. Following!
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@steevc ·
I've had picks sent to me from around the world by some cool people. Not had any in a while, but I'm always interested. Mind you, I need to save for Steemfest.
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@snow.owl ·
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I will have a few concerts in the UK next year, hope we can hook up! All the best
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@trevor.george ·
things seem to be in the dolldrums a bit lately, not that I have been around enough to notice much.

I think Steemit and STEEM have a solid future. We just have to keep on plugging away every day. In ten years time it will be an overnight success. ;-)
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@xabi ·
I also do believe in steem... And i thinks its still highly undervalued...

With SMTs the ERC tokens will be a thing of past.
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