Dear Beginner Medium Writer, Please Don’t Make This Silliest Mistake, Ever

The sooner you know it, the better

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To be clear, there are no rules to writing on Medium.

You can do, create, write “The way you want.” But I think there is only good and bad work. And the type of work decides your progress. So if your work is good or great, the progress will be, for sure, great. If your work is bad, on the other hand, the progress will be, for sure, worse.

Today, in this story, I want to point out a mistake most writers, especially beginner writers make on Medium. This is the mistake you should avoid making at all costs. Why? Because it’s a bad work.

So what’s the mistake?

Surpassing Your Followers’ Count.

Confused? See, there are two Audience metrics you have in your Medium profile: Followers and Following. Followers means, how many people follow you, and Following means how many people YOU follow.

So when I say “Surpassing your followers’ count” Means you shouldn’t follow more people than the followers you have. This means, if you have 150 followers, you shouldn’t be following 200 people or more.

Said differently, if you have 100 followers, you’re better off following only less…