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Who Are These Medium Readers Who Don’t Clap?
Were they born in a barn?
As we obsess — then try not to obsess, then go back to obsessing — over our stats pages, one of the biggest questions we keep coming back to is, Who are these people who read our work but don’t clap?
Way more views than reads? I get it.
You thought it would be about something different. Or I just didn’t hold your attention. Maybe it was longer than you expected and you’re going to bookmark it for later. I totally understand.
But you just read to the end of my 11-minute piece. I kept you engaged for that long. You read the whole thing, and then you didn’t clap? Hmmm.
Here’s the stats page for my most recent 6 articles.
Notice the most fans are for my piece Medium Writers, I Love You, right here in 1-One-Infinity. More than half of people who read it clapped. (Even more whoa, almost half of people who viewed it clapped.)
