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John Loewen's avatar

Hi Walter, great post, thanks for sharing.

Wow, it's like we're moving along in parallel universes here, but you are about 2 light years ahead.

To support what you're saying, I recently wrote an article on tags/topics (In New Writers Welcome) hypothesizing, like you, that my recent jump in followers was because I was showing up on the "Who To Follow" page for a few important tags/topics (Data Analysis, Data Storytelling, Prompt Engineering, Python). The jump in followers started in Dec/2023, which is when I noticed that my ugly mug was showing up on the Topics pages.

At the same time, my # of boosts seemed to increase (I had a total of 2 before Dec, I've had 13 since).

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Kristina God's avatar

Hi Walter, for a video of mine I reached out to Medium to find out how they call those "top writers" in the categories. The category that's leading the ranking now is tech, followed by AI. I think AI will soon be #1 which is scary I think.

I loved the top writers badges, guess similar to the boost Medium wants to reward MORE people. With 500 topics they can support 500 people. It used to be 73 topics.

I'm also "top writer" in 3 categories but as you said you have to pumpt out a lot of long form stories OR get boosted and then get a lot of comments etc. to get featured.

Would love to learn more about those new "top writers". Eve Arnold is one in #writing or Derek and it helps them get seen and read.

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