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Getting some meaningful stats might be hard. What's better is to focus on engaging more in the community and adding some value to it. Quality followers will eventually come your way. ^_^
Haven't tried this on Steemit yet. However, this worked fine over other platforms. Should work here too!

True. But I'm checking the steem API anyway while building new things for steem.. thats just a little thought besides. Providing something useful is the key!