I'd also like to point out that the post she made on twitter appears to have gotten 5 retweets and 13 favorites. Hardly indicative of a major influencer in this space.
Her 1.4 million Facebook followers is much greater than her 161k twitter followers, and she has posted on twitter but not on Facebook...
Twitter (and social media in general) is quite fickle. What happens consistently a week, month, and year from now is far more important. If people continually releasing their new content here, that will have a large, long term impact.
I think you may have missed my edit, where I note that she has almost 10x the Facebook fans as she has twitter followers... Yet she has opted to post on twitter and not Facebook. I'm not sure there is a serious commitment to promoting Steemit, or any particular marketing savvy that we will benefit from.
EDIT: Seeing @blakemiles84's post now, I see that there is a rationale behind that. I would be very happy to be proven wrong here.
Thanks for pinging me about the edit.
Would you risk the goodwill of 1.4 million fans before running a trial run to a smaller audience first? To me, that's completely reasonable. As I said, it's the long term game that will matter here. Some people might ignore steemit content the first 10 or so times, but if it's done consistently, that will change things.
I won't write that off entirely. I'm willing to be convinced that my assumptions were misplaced. If it turns out that I'm way off base here, I'll be very glad indeed.
She posted to Facebook as well.
Retweets and faves are not the points. Views are what matters. She may not have posted on FB yet, but I'm betting she does after her first payout. And, that's what the payout is intended for, to reward people and incentive them to tell others about it.
It might not be the point, but it is at least as valuable as # of followers. It gives you some hint at how many views it got, and what kind of an impact it had. It will be interesting to see what kind of a response her FB post receives.
In retrospect you are right that her Twitter following is low engagement despite her follower count. So maybe we shouldn't have been as enthusiastic as we were, there's only so much author-reward to go around.
Despite that, I think the bigger thing is a cascade effect where others see her results and do the same (@brendazambrano is likely herself part of a cascade effect from @guerrint). And if she really migrates to SteemIt linking her blogs to Facebook, the long term effect will be worth it.