Someone might say that it's very brave to compare steemit with others, as steemit is still in its very early stage, it's like comparing a baby with adult.
However, an elephant baby is still bigger than an adult ant. Therefore, to tell whether Steemit is an ant or an elephant is very necessary.
In the past weeks, steemit has been going viral, and the number of accounts increases like a rocket. So wonder where is the limit of steemit. Let's compare steemit with counterparts.
I selected five counterparts to compare with --- facebook, twitter, reddit, and weibo. The monthly active accounts are illustrate in the following graph:
As we can see, facebook is the biggest SNS and has 1.75 billion monthly active accounts, while reddit, twitter and weibo are close to each other, they have 234 million, 310 million and 280 million monthly active accounts, respectively.
How about steemit? It has just reached 50,000 accounts yesterday. If you believe that steemit, as the first blockchain based decentralized social news service, will eventually take a place in this market, you have to admit :
Steemit has a great potential, and we are all early birds.
Obiviously, there is a lot of market room for steemit to occupy.
The first milestone is to surpass Reddit?
It's especially reasonable to compare steemit with reddit, because both of them are positioned as social news service, instead of social networking.
If we use the the average increase rate of steemit and reddit in the past two weeks, we get the following estimated curves:
It predicts that by the 47th weeks from now, the number of steemit will exceed reddit!!!
Do you dare imagine it?
Yes, I do.
[source]: All of the data used above are searched from the following websites:
http://expandedramblings.com/index.php/reddit-stats/
https://zephoria.com/top-15-valuable-facebook-statistics/
http://expandedramblings.com/index.php/weibo-user-statistics/
https://steemd.com/distribution