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Actifit announces SteemFest ticket winner. 'I ❤️ Steem' hits social media, APPICS recruits Instagram influencers, and Splinterlands airdrops the Diamond Dragon. And there is news and discussion about eSteem, the SMT Testnet, a SteemFest 4 Skateboard, canonical links, the DLIKER wallet, and Steem Philippines... --- ---

1. Actifit SteemFest ticket winner announced

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Actifit has announced the winner in their contest with Blocktrades for the ticket and accommodation for SteemFest 4 in Bangkok next month...

Actifit Daily: Congrats to SteemFest Contest Winner !! (& Our Daily Updates)

@vesytz from Bulgaria was picked in a live-streamed draw with @abh12345, @anomadsoul and @mcfarhat...

@actifit and @blocktrades Steem Fest 4 Contest Raffle Draw

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2. 'I ❤️ Steem' social media campaign

Long time Steem promoter @stephenkendal has been giving away 500 STEEM in a campaign to raise awareness of Steem on Twitter and other social media...

500 Steem Cash Giveaway! I am giving away 10 Steem + Up-vote to x50 Users each to help promote the "I ❤️ Steem" Campaign

With x28 payments already been made, I am pleased to say that the 500 Steem Cash Giveaway for the "I ❤️ Steem" Social Media Campaign is just over halfway!

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3. APPICS recruiting influencers

Instagram challenger @APPICS have announced that a number of major influencers with followings of over a million have joined their platform including @melinaceline, @joythailia and @marlenenova...

Influencers With 1M Followers Join APPICS | Introducing new Users, Updates & More

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4. Splinterlands airdrops the Diamond Dragon

While the @steemmonsters [Kickstarter campaign](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/526764488/splinterlands-untamed-a-blockchain-trading-card-game) continues apace, pre-sales of the new Untamed card packs have now passed the 100K mark which has triggered the first Diamond Dragon airdrop...

First Splinterlands: UNTAMED Airdrop Announced - DIAMOND DRAGON!

Game co-founder @aggroed has posted a guide to the Kickstarter and Fundition campaigns...

Understanding The Splinterlands Crowdfund on Fundition and Kickstarter

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5. eSteem website adds RSS feeds

@esteemapp has now added RSS feeds to its website. > RSS gives a lot of other opportunity for content creators and consumers, for example, automated exposure into other social networks, following favorite author's blog, following favorite tags/topics, get notified or alert on new content, increase productivity, stay informed on topics that interest you and many many other ways...

RSS feeds added into eSteem website

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6. First witnesses active on the SMT Testnet

Top 20 witness @themarkymark is now active on the SMT testnet along with fellow witnesses @drakos and @ausbitbank. As a major stepchange for Steem it is important as many witnesses as possible are active and producing blocks on the Testnet...

@themarkymark Witness is on SMT testnet

A number of steemians such as @the-bitcoin-dood and @freebornangel have spotted that the crypto media have started to pick up on [Steemit Inc's recent SMT press release](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/steemits-smart-media-tokens-live-on-testnet-300938903.html)...

Steemit Announces its Smart Media Tokens Testnet Launch

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7. SteemFest 4 Skateboard hits the streets

@sirlunchthehost has announced that his @cmmerch merchandise company has produced a limited edition SteemFest 4 branded skateboard...

The FIRST EVER STEEMFEST 2019 Skateboard + First ever Steemit Skateboard. Created by @cmmerch

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8. Steemit Inc fixes Canonical Links

@paulag reports that Steemit Inc have now resolved [the canonical links issue](https://steemit.com/steem/@paulag/so-you-think-you-own-your-content-on-steem-sorry-to-tell-you) for some of the Steem apps including @steempress-io so that the authoritative owner in the eyes of Google & Co reverts again to the originating site rather than being steemit.com...

Canonical links and Optimizing Posts for Rankings

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9. DLIKER wallet live on DLIKE

@dlike has announced that their DLIKER walled is now live...

DLIKER Wallet Live on DLIKE

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10. Steem Philippines - meetups, earthquakes & dolphins

Steem Philippines, co-ordinated by @chrisrice, has had its 8th successful and successive weekly meetup in Davao City...

Steem Philippines | 8th Official Meetup in Davao City

Shortly after the meetup the Steem Philippines team were surprised to receive a very generous donation of over 8000 STEEM from one of the regular attendees at the meetups, @nathansenn. This has been powered up and the @steem-ph account has now received Dolphin status...

Dolphin Status for SteemPhilippines

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KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap & @arcange ]

(change on previous day in brackets // n/c = no change)

Steem price	US$ 0.141	17 Oct '19 02.18am UTC
SBD price	US$ 0.681	17 Oct '19 02.18am UTC
CoinMarketCap Ranking	#79 (+7)	17 Oct '19 02.18am UTC
FCAS Score	803 (n/c) / A / #21	17 Oct '19 02.18am UTC
No. of Whales	39 (n/c)	15 Oct '19
No. of Orcas	357 (n/c)	15 Oct '19
No. of Dolphins	2173 (+1)	15 Oct '19
No. of Minnows	9234 (-4)	15 Oct '19
Alexa rank (steemit.com)	#9,274 (-252)	17 Oct '19 02.18am UTC
Unique visitors (steemit.com)	133,193 / day	17 Oct '19 02.18am UTC
Page views (steemit.com)	346,301 / day	17 Oct '19 02.18am UTC
Alexa rank (steempeak.com)	#58,344 (+271)	17 Oct '19 02.18am UTC
Unique visitors (steempeak.com)	16,967 / day	17 Oct '19 02.18am UTC
Page views (steempeak.com)	95,016 / day	17 Oct '19 02.18am UTC

Follow @penguinpablo, @steem-data & @eforucom for more statistics. --- --- Visit the Steem Meetups & Events Calendar for a full list of meetups coming up...

Calendar of Steem Meetups & Events @ 11 October 2019

--- --- This is #205 (16 Oct '19) of this daily news service. Please let me know of any important posts or key data that should be included. Comment below or message me on Discord Pennsif#9921. --- --- ###### Burn Note - 5% of the post rewards will be burnt by setting a beneficary to @null. --- --- [ graphics by @pennsif ]