Finally today is the day we get to introduce SPECTACLES!
We went through our first, positive BETA testing phase and are very happy to officially announce SPECTACLES for public!
SPECTACLES provides relevant data which gives you more insights in the activity on your posts, so you can reciprocate and improve engagement between you and your followers.
Nice to meet you, we are @pilcrow and @sjennon.
Take a peek into the activity from your followers and dive into the underlying data which can’t be seen with the naked eye.
You can try on our SPECTACLES on www.steemspectacles.com.
Why do you need SPECTACLES?
Did you know your eyesight is actually pretty bad? What happens behind the Steemit curtain is simply a blur - we only know that we see our follower counter moving, as well as the upvotes on our posts. But who actually are these people? And have they visited my blog more often?
And these are not the only questions you might have been asking yourself...
Who abandoned you? Who has been loyally by your side? Who are the most influential followers, always bumping you up to a satisfying payout. Or who are useless followers because they haven’t been online in months now? What is the value of that follower who just uprooted your post? And how much did your followers up vote you each in total?
The more upvotes you get, the less insights you get into the activity on your posts. Steemit only provides you with a number and a summary of the 20 highest upvotes, but does not show you all your other loyal followers who are hidden below those first 20.
We wanted to create an application which gives you more insights in your followers and their activity when it comes to your posts. With this information, you can start communicating with your followers in more meaningful ways.
After all, Steemit is a community. It is give and take - and hopefully more give. But how can you give to the people who give to you, if you do not know who they are or how big of an influence they have on your posts are without you even realising?
This is where SPECTACLES comes into the picture. You can finally try on our fancy data specs!*
What does SPECTACLES do?
Insights: Get an overview of the activity of your followers when it comes to you and your last 100 posts. Find out which followers have been loyally upvoting you without you even noticing.
Engage and reciprocate: Once you’ve found out who are most valuable to your blog, you can put this information to good use. Start engaging with them! Steemit is about give and take. Give back to the people from you’ve been taking.
Grow: With the insights of SPECTACLES it is easier to care for your followers and grow friendships with your audience as well as it becomes easier to engage with new people.
Help us improve SPECTACLES
We are continuously working on SPECTACLES to improve and make it better and we are super hyped and psyched to find out what you guys think about it.
Do you have a suggestion?
Feel free to leave us a message on Steemit.Chat in the #spectacles channel!
If you are a simple Steemian who just likes to come up with this one idea, feel free to share it with us! We are completely open to ANY type of feedback to improve the usability and data of SPECTACLES.
Are you interested in providing us with occasional feedback?
You can become one of our valuable BETA Bunnies!
Hit us up in Steemit.Chat and we will make sure you’ll become a bunny.
What’s next?
Thanks to our BETA Bunnies and our user research this is not only what SPECTACLES can offer. We have a lot more features and improvements on our bucket list. These are the ones first in line!
- Improve the API for more accessible and faster data display;
- Display who and when resteemed your posts;
- Display your own upvote activity;
- Implementing your suggestions.
Stay tuned!
Stay tuned to our blog to stay up to date with our newest features and improvements. Cheers!
If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to reach out to us through the Spectacles channel on Steemit.Chat.
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This looks really cool, I am going to check it out :)
absolutely amazing!
Great work :)
Thanks @valikos!
Great. This is exactly what I was looking for but didn't know who to ask. Would it be possible to give the same kind of information on the people I follow? I don't want to be following ghost users. Thanks for your hard work.
Yes, that's definitely in the works! Thanks for your suggestion :)
Thanks for provided this great tools
maybe i'm not understanding how this is calculated, but by these numbers, it appears i've only got three followers actively interacting with me (which i know is incorrect). am i just interpreting those numbers wrong?
All of your dead followers are also ghost followers. If they're not active they also haven't interacted with you. I think you have around 85 active followers. Does that sound more realistic?
ahhhh...that makes total sense. i had a feeling i was interpreting those numbers wrong. thanks for the clarification!
Awesome! I just check and it looks amazing, the design and interface is very user friendly, thanks for developing this tool.
Keep up the good work
Hey @johnycrypto, thanks for the kind words! Glad you like it!
I've been waiting for this for quite some time. Super excited to try it out and congratulations on the launch. Finally we have a simplified and awesome steemit app. Excellent work woman!
Thank you @things! I hope it meets your expectations! Sending some love!
@pilcrow Well written article and a brilliant idea!
Thanks, but both the idea and the article were by @sjennon. I just do the code stuff :D
Hey @pilcrow and @sjennon, nice to meet you and this pretty project. Always interesting to get some insights about our posts. I will follow this and just upvoted you.
PS : Notice that your link in the sentence "This is where SPECTACLES comes into the picture. You can finally try on our fancy data specs!" is down :)
Hi @nokkah! Thanks for stopping by. We hope you will find the app useful too! Would love to hear from you in if you come up with any cool ideas.
Oh, whoopsie! Thanks for pointing that out - it's fixed now!
@spectacles
ooh yes...hoping for more improvements..
just keep in touch..
Haha, wohoo! If you have any cool ideas or thoughts for improvement, we'd love to hear them!
Cheers!
Hello @spectacles @pilcrow and @sjennon ! I am afraid I'm either stupid and have no idea how to use SPECTACLES, or it's currently not working for me. I'm opening the main page, putting in my steemit name, @lifewithcrypto, hitting enter, and nothing happening. Any ideas? I'd like to see how everything looks!
Oh my, that doesn't sound good. When you hit enter it's supposed to load a page with your information, and when it can't find your username it should show an error. It does look like Steemit is a little slow today, so maybe that's causing some problems?
What happens if you go to http://www.steemspectacles.com/@lifewithcrypto directly?
I had the same problem in Chrome, but when I switched to Safari it works. This is on a Mac OS Sierra.
Thanks for letting us know, we'll look into it some more!
but each time i tried using it on my chrome browser, it works perfectly
Yes, was having the same issue! Thought I was just dumb! lol :) Chrome here.
Edit: Fixed! It put me through .
You are never dumb! It just means that there needs to be something done on our side :)
Yes, eventually it worked. Either way I'll just go to /@lifewithcrypto from now, I just didn't notice that that ends up being the direct link. Thank you for your work, looks very nice! Hope you get more coverage and end up with more useful tools from you in the future. I'd resteem this myself but 100% of my followers are completely dead, haha :)
We would love to improve this still! There's a whole world out there :D
And I just saw about your followers :(
had the same issue for a minute, but it finally went through just fine. it's either a little laggy on the login side of things or a tiny bug issue, but i'm using chrome and it's working well...
Nice guys!!! NICE!!!
:D
This is super awesome :O
Already using the app and it works nicely. Resteemed!
Just made a post on this: https://steemit.com/steemit/@howtostartablog/spectacles-new-app-to-check-who-your-loyal-influential-dead-ghost-followers-are
That's awesome, thanks so much! :D
This is an awesome project. As you correctly said, Steemit is about engagement and I hope that by using spectacles, my engagement will be improved.
We sure hope so too! If there's anything we can add to help you increase your engagement even more do let us know, we're always looking for more useful things to add to it.
Hey, is there a possibility to show the newest followers? I often wondered who was coming to my friendslist, but on steemit.com you see only the alphabetical order.
Great suggestion. I wanted that as well.
@laylahsophia @howtostartablog This is definitely on our list. We are currently struggling with the API without killing the loading time so we decided to postpone this for now. We hope to have solved this soon though!
Great App!! Very useful! Thank's! Upvoted and resteemd!
Steem On!👍
yeah ,,, its really indeed an awesome project
Wow, thank you so much for your enthusiasm and resteem! We appreciate it <3
Your welcome!
Cant wait to check it out, good luck guys - tip!
Let us know what you think! :D
Wow, words cannot describe how this tool is wonderful.
The insights are wonderful,i did not know i had some dead followers who have not been active for a month!
I also like analytics of the voter weight of each voter and so far how much upvotes i have received.
Thank you for this initiative @pilcrow and @sjennon
Thanks for the kind words, and you're welcome! Any other statistics you'd like to see?
Upvotes from non-followers.
It happens that my top upvoter does not follow me.
It would be nice to show also non-followers who are upvoters.
Thanks! This is already on our list - hopefully we will have this feature soon ;)
@spectacles
Extraordinary. This is precisely what I was searching for however didn't know who to inquire. Would it be conceivable to give a similar sort of data on the general population I take after? I would prefer not to be following apparition clients. Much obliged for your diligent work.
Decent folks!!! Pleasant!!!
Wow this is really a cool new tool!
Thank you!! Resteeming for others to see. 👀
Wow thanks a lot! Very much appreciated :D
Thank you for resteeming, I missed the launch.
Awesome tool guys. Thanks for putting it out there. I look forward to giving it a shot, as I, too, have been frustrated by the 20-vote-display limit.
Grab your chances :D
This sounds amazing!!
Decent to meet you, @spectacles! Welcome to the Steemit Community, wish you good fortunes and a decent begin, ive send you a little tip and tailed you, trust you have an astonishing day! :)
@spectacles, great project. Curious about the adaption of the community and the impact of the new data available. Looking forward to coming features and development. Upvoted and resteemed. Cheers.
Thank you. We hope it will help users too besides as having a 'fun' factor of just knowing the data. If you have any cool ideas, we'd love to hear them!
Great stuff. I'm off to check this out now as it looks like something that will be really handy.
Thank you
We hope it also IS handy and not just looks like it!
Great job you did here @pilcrow @sjennon. I really liked the app!
Thanks! :D
Thanks for the good job......Upvoted and resteemed.
Looks awesome and it's very easy to use, thank you!
:D
How are you? Spectacles, I'm just here to leave a nice Hello ^^. Unfortunately i don't have much voting power, but i will be back and vote my followers. Need to grow a little ^^. Have a great time @rightuppercorner
welcome here spectacles
i hope you enjoy in steemit:)
Hi @spectacles! @cardboard is sending you 0.15 SBD tip and @tipU upvote
:)
@tipU - send tips by writing tip! in the comment, get share of the profit :)WOW!!! How great is that?! I just logged in and was amazed! THANK YOU so much for your effort.
We are happy that you're so pleased :D
It is proving to be a very useful tool! =)
Thank you!
I would like to submit a feature request to the wonderful work you have done thus far.
Could you please make the columns in the follower's tables sortable?
Thanks for the suggestions! We thought of this and it actually already is on our to do list! @pilcrow can probably tell you some more about this. Stay tuned though, when it's implemented we will post about it!
Thank you! That is excellent news. I found myself wanting to sort the data frequently and had to resort to copying it to a spreadsheet to do so.
Hmmm... another feature request? =)
CSV export
@spectacles Thanks for publishing this Charming instant in time for yourself..
@spectacles Really intriguing and insightful submit. Want you the most effective with all of your potential endeavors.
thanks for providing this, something we all need on steemit
Let's hope so! We are aiming to help everyone ofcourse!
Super useful, thanks so much!
Wohoo!
Awesome app! I made my own script to get this data, but you guys do it much better than me! Already use it frequently!
Aah, I'm sorry :o We hope we still meet your requirements!
You absolutely do meet them! Very excited to see what happens of this in the future!
@spectaclesnice congrats..
Wow, this is really helpful. I logged in and found very useful and interesting information. Will follow up on Steemit.Chat.
Great to know! Would love to have a chat :)
Great work, guys! It looks great!
Thanks :D
@spectacles yeah! Why I have never considered that until eventually now. Tend to be the animals immortal in advance of male fully commited sin???.
Nice! I'm a sucker for apps, tools, and everything in between. I did a short review yesterday of a browser extension that puts the info right on Steemit itself. Developers are the unsung heroes of the Internet!
Yes they are :) Do not forget the all the designers and content writers though!
thanks for upvoted me. thanks alot for supporting
Congratulations @spectacles!
Your post was mentioned in the hit parade in the following categories:
holy shit. this is amazing, guys. nice work! i'll have to dip around on it further when i'm not at work, but a cursory glance at all the info you've got up on the site is more than a little impressive.
this should definitely help me curate my followers better (which i'm honestly pretty terrible at, currently).
Haha thank you for your kind words! And yes, that is exactly the purpose we had in mind for our tool! I hope all is well :) Happy wednesday!
Love the app!!! Already got my dead followers gone!!! Would be nice to add a feature to quickly remove a bunch at once. If possible.
Some checkboxes then unfollow all with some verify steps as needed. I will definitely be using my spectacles now!!! Thanks yall!!
Also the color choice is awesome
Whoa thank you!
Hope you'll have a better sight now ;)
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Wow how cool is this? A person is just a friend I haven't met. This is great cuz I'll know who they are now!! Thanks
Happy to have made that clear for you :D
Smiles