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How to Attract More Followers on Medium

The platform remains a top publishing option for writers, creators, and thoughtful professionals.

Getting from zero to 100 followers on Medium, which will unlock the Medium Partner Program, is often the biggest hurdle. (Credit: Lesniewski/DepositPhotos)

You don’t need to be a great writer to flourish on Medium.

Medium is an open-source publishing platform that was founded in 2012 by Twitter and Blogspot co-founder Ev Williams. The platform has gone through many permutations in that time, and Williams recently passed the torch to a new CEO, Tony Stubblebine.

If you want to attract more followers online, and prefer to do so via article and/or blog writing, Medium remains one of the largest platforms on the internet to do so.

Here’s the good, the bad, and the ugly on how most writers get more followers on Medium.

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