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VIRAL STORIES OF THE DAY
Two trending stories are going viral on ILLUMINATION today

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ILLUMINATION is having an increasing amount of new visitors each day.
Here is a snapshot of the last four days.
29/08/2020–32,393 new visitors
28/08/2020–28,112 new visitors
27/08/2020–25,655 new visitors
26/08/2020–16,301 new visitors
The attached screen capture depicts the graphical representation of new visitors on the publication page of ILLUMINATION.

Apart from our increasing number of writers, quantity and quality of stories, one major factor for this progress is our trending stories.
In this post, I want to highlight two sample trending stories today.
The first story is by Thomas Oppong.
This short yet impactful story had thousands of views. It is trending in the publication dashboard, hits the top of tags, and about to go viral.
The story depicts the characteristics of potential content to go viral.
This story is curated by Medium and distributed to topic #self.
Several stories distributed to #self gained substantial visibility. Even one of them went viral, receiving 93,000 views and still trending.
You can read the trending story of Thomas Oppong from the attached link. Writers can learn and model this insightful and high-quality story.
The second trending story is by Sebastian Purcell, PhD.
This high-quality story also was distributed to #self and #philosophy.
ILLUMINATION has strong success rate with philosophy as it is one of our amplifiers as illustrated in the attached screen capture.

When writers tag #philosophy, thousands of followers of this tag can easily access stories via this tab. Some readers only follow specific tabs on publications therefore ILLUMINATION diligently and strategically designed the tabs based on reader profiles. Writers should keep this capability in mind.
Interestingly, this is the second trending story by Dr Purcell. A few weeks ago there was another great story which received thousands of views from readers of Dr Purcell.
You can read the new trending story of Dr Purcell from the attached link.
You can gain insights on how to write viral stories from the attached article.
You can find hints on how to make good money on Medium as a writer from the attached story featuring, a high earning, top writer of ILLUMINATION.
We have an excellent resource related to #self. Please check our curated stories distributed to #self.
You can check other trending and viral stories on ILLUMINATION by Kylie Fuller, Brian E. Wish, PhD, Kristin Wilson, Lindsay Brown, Rebecca Stevens A., Britni Pepper, Erin King, Julia E Hubbel, Charlotte Zobeir Ali, Mukundarajan V N, Claire Handscombe, Matt Stevenson,
ILLUMINATION is transforming to help writers to thrive.
New submission guidelines compiled by our editor Kathryn A. LeRoy, Ph.D. are available for reflecting the changes.
Here is a valuable guideline on values of our publication.
INVITATION TO JOIN ILLUMINATION
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