Hi all, my name is Geoff and I'm glad to be making my first post! My friend introduced me to Steemit and I thought I'd play around with it. I'm an engineer by training and have focused my life on using technology to make the lives of ordinary people better. Particularly, I love how technology can be used to democratize old business models. So Steem is right up my alley!
I wanted to know how Steemit in general was trending, so I opened up Google Trends.
What I'm seeing is an initial spike followed by some settling down to a new baseline. This isn't a bad chart - a bad chart is an initial spike settling down to the previous baseline. I interpret this as Steemit seeing a lot of activity as a bunch of people checking it out around July 13, with many people, something like 30%, staying around and engaging with the site.
That's pretty awesome.
What we want to see is a nice steady increase, with more spikes and drops, but an overall upward trend, as I annotated here.
That's all for now...
Onward. :)
-geoff