Have You Tried Using Medium Like Twitter

I once read a story that featured a great line. It went something:
Think of Medium’s shortform content as monetized tweets.
Because that’s essentially what it is. And since Ev Williams is one of the founders of Twitter and founder of Medium, I actually think he’s intended shortform to be exactly that: Monetized tweets. With a few more characters that is.
So, why not? Have you tried using Medium shortform like Twitter? I have come across a few writers who do it. Dr Mehmet Yildiz, the owner of the ILLUMINATION publications, is doing it.
My favorite shortform use cases:
- Sum up long-form stories
- promote other stories
- communicate with the community, mentioning other writers and articles
- and yes, using it like a tweet
Shall we try?






