The Truth About Claps and Followers is Not Really What You Think

Is this a secret some writers don’t want you to know?

With all the recent revelations I’ve made about Medium and how my stories are earning money, I discovered some pretty interesting facts.

I learned that claps and followers don’t really hold the significance that many writers place on them.

This important knowledge can have a positive affect on your mental attitude towards writing on Medium, and on your productivity. Keep reading and I’ll explain just how.

This little revelation is really all about the math of getting applauds. I’m sure I’m not the only one who the logic of this has finally dawned on.

I’ve actually been fixated on the subject of applauds — a topic that I’ve written about lately, and in fact, I was prepared to continue writing about it, until something came to light.

All this time, I was under the wrong impression about the value of applauds, especially when I wrote the story: Applauding for Stories You Enjoy: What Makes You Want to Clap More than Once?

In that particular story, I mention how I had no idea that a maximum of 50 claps are allowed to be given by a member, for every story they choose to applaud.

Ever since I wrote that story, I’ve been pushing the idea of giving more claps, and hoping it would stick with readers and writers. But now I realize that the number of claps doesn’t always mean what we assume it means.

First, ask yourself, what do you think, when you see a story has over one thousand claps?

Think about it for a moment. Those are the stories we notice the number of claps on right away, even before reading the story. You probably think like I do: “Wow, this got over a thousand applauds,” and of course, for no reason:

But that is not necessarily so, and in fact, in all likelihood, this is probably not the case. Have you stopped to realize that all it takes for one story to get 1000 claps is…

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