100 Days Writing Challenge

What Do Followers Mean To You?

The most intense question on Medium — Episode 17

Medium is one of the best portals to create and share your content. In doing so, followers play an important part in the journey. It is one of the key factors, whether we will be a success or a failure. Hence, how we deal with followers is quite sensitive. There are several reasons for the same. Let’s discuss a few.

First, having a big fan following makes us stand apart from the rest of the crowd. Because all writers/bloggers on Medium are always striving their best to have maximum followers.

Second, more followers invariably mean that your stories are likely to have better stats. This leads to better performance in terms of the Medium Partner Program that ultimately reflects in your bank account.

Third, the bigger the follower base, the more is your tendency to understand the likes and dislikes of the people out there who are eager to read good quality content.

Fourth, a sizable or rather an extraordinary followers’ number makes you more acceptable in elite publications. This is all about in Medium, isn’t it? Unless some of you are so ambitious that you either create your own publication houses or you go for self publications.

Despite the above facts, there is a certain mindset behind having a big follower base. A few writers on Medium want to have as many followers as possible. They follow writers regardless of their profile, niche, and so on. They are only interested in people to follow them back. That is why you see people having a sizeable gap between the followings and the followers.

Last but not least, for me, followers mean someone that I can truly connect with. I don't want to go for anybody or everybody on Medium. I want to give the process its due time. If someone has 2K followers as against a following of 10K. It will not be beneficial for you — neither optically nor money-wise. Don’t be hasty. So, give it some time, grow as a writer, and pieces of the jigsaw puzzle will automatically start falling in the right spots.

Do share your thoughts on this topic.

I hope you enjoyed today’s episode. See you tomorrow!