Writing

What Does Your Follower Ratio Say About You?

And why are you here right now?

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If you look at many of the top Medium writers, you’ll see they are followed by many but follow few back.

Here are a few examples:

• 183K followers; follows 573
• 116K followers; follows 297
• 48K followers; follows 447
• 6.9K followers; follows 433
• 73K followers; follows 10

Meanwhile, here I am with 2.4K followers … and I follow 4,061.

That’s right. I follow way more people than who follow me. I’m far from being a top writer here, but I’m doing fine.

The last two months I managed to make more than a thousand bucks here. I hope to make $1K this month, too. I have eight referred followers from whom I make $17.90 each month.

I don’t know if I’ll be able to continue this, but I’m pleased with how well I’m doing. I set up Medium a couple of years ago, wrote a handful of pieces, abandoned it, and then started publishing (nearly) every day in March. With this story, I’ve published 202 pieces on this platform — plus nearly 4K responses. (I have opinions, OK?)