Does The Follower Count Indicate Medium’s Explosive Growth?
Just asking…
Something strange is afoot.
In the last two months, I have added nearly a thousand followers.
It took the better part of a year to go from 241 to 1,600 followers in 2021 and the numbers doubled to 3,200 by the start of 2023 and the last year ended with having just over 5,000 followers.
But in the month of December and January —considering that the new month is only nine days old — my numbers have spiked radically.
And I was wondering, what could be behind this phenomenon? Is my writing better than ever or could it be that I have found an audience, after all these years of grafting and toiling?
Or could it be Medium’s explosive growth?
I am under no illusions regarding my popularity: however compelling my material may be, I suspect that I am never going to have the pull of a Denning, Jgin, Arnold, or any of the newbies currently taking the platform by storm but having close to a thousand followers added in a very short space of time, tells me that the changes which Buster Benson wrote about in July might be having the desired effect.
I may be wrong. I may be right.