How Much Money Does a Shortform Post Make?
Word on the street is that Medium is challenging Twitter by encouraging shorter posts, known as “Shortform posts.”
Does that mean they’ll get higher priority and therefore make more than a typical post? Or does a shorter post with less read-time mean they’ll make less? I'll be monitoring this (my first) Shortform post to find out…
To make this a bit more juicy, here’s a wild speculation:
If Medium is encouraging Shortform posts to compete with Twitter, will they eventually encourage more original photos to compete with Instagram? And more original videos to compete with YouTube? Is this just Medium fixing the Internet, or this the beginning of world domination?
6-day earnings: $0.68—it appears shortform posts make half as much as a 2-minute read with similar stats…