As I'm kinda getting my Twitter game going again, mainly just to shill Steem and share some good Steem posts on there, I couldn't help but notice their Analytics page.
Even though having a following or being active there for regular accounts is of no inherent value these stats do bring in a sort of "accomplishment" or a sense of chasing for more "attention".
Ever since the viewcount was removed on Steemit the incentive to share your posts has dropped by a lot. The first front-end to bring these back, add statistics of them to accounts profile pages and in opposite to Twitter have them be public to anyone wanting to check other's stats out, will probably start getting a lot of traction on their site compared to the other Steem front-ends.
It's not big changes but it will change the dymanics quite a bit, on top of that you can add certain accounts with delegations that would incentivize these authors gathering a lot of views extra with upvotes similar to how busy.pay does, where they give authors with a big following in mvests bigger votes. An account such as steempeak.pay could instead reward people based off of that + viewcounts + adrevenue sharing such as with BAT or other means.
There are a lot of untested things yet which combined could help not just the earnings of authors actually bringing in traffic and being able to gather attention to their accounts but also market the underlying currency and front-end on it's own without needing to spend as much money on marketing directly.
What are your thoughts on this?
Do you think we are in dire need of viewcount and analytics or do you think it won't change much? Are there other things I did not think of that we could add to the mix? There was a post by @tarazkp yesterday about Publish0x and their tipping system in many different coins, I am hoping we will include something like that as well if anything after SMT's are out with their own inner markets and simple ways to tip through maybe keychain or tipping wallets where we can keep funds to be able to tip by the click of a button next to the upvote/downvote ones.
