Interesting. Trending seems to only share upvoted material. Wondering if they'll ever take into account external exposure in at least a very partial way. Steemit can compete with other social media and media platforms if its material ranked well and created more exposure to potential new users. If having a Steemtit Post do well in the outside world of social media and organic search engine rank factored in monetization, you'd likely see a massive influx of users. Everyone wins. Let's hope they play with that soon.
RE: Steemit Experiment: Leveraging 554K+ Social Media followers in post promotion