If Blogger and Twitter are combined, then become Medium. Yup. Medium is a blogging platform whose age is fairly new. Evan Williams, the creator of Blogger and Twitter, founded it in 2012. He did not need a long time to jump-start this writing container in cyberspace.
In a short time, Medium was flooded with visitors. In an article written by Kathryn Nave on Wired.co.uk, Medium has reportedly collected 25 million monthly visitors. Even the revenue of the new platform has penetrated $ 82 million.
I fad calculated it using a Google calculator. As of January 2019, with an exchange rate of 14,133.05. The Medium Income reached Rp1,158,910,100,000. That's where it was in 2016 when Nave's article first appeared. This means that the times of increasing internet users in the world of 2017 and 2018. The coffers are getting bigger too.
But what is Medium. Why so fast?
in a very short term medium is in the middle of twitter and blog
But despite similar blogs, the sensation is far different. Because they have a topic trending feature, there is an author column and those with accounts can follow each other. Similar to Twitter. But not Twitter. Nor is it a full blog. He is in the middle. So given the name Medium.
The problem is why he can quickly soared because of its fun features. Reva also has an account on Medium. If you have time, stop by there and we can follow each other.
But if you question further, why do many people like to write in Medium rather than blogs that can be managed by themselves such as Blogspot or WordPress ?. I quote one of the answers that people shared on the site id.quora.com.
Irfan Maulana Software Engineer at Bizzy Indonesia wrote the answer:
Comfortable editor
For me, a Medium editor is one of the easiest (* though not the most comprehensive features) to use. I can write comfortably without caring about what the final result will look like. I am quite focused on the writing content that I will make. This certainly cuts down many things that I have to take care of if I decide to write on my personal blog.
Clean appearance
As a Medium reader, I feel comfortable when reading various articles on this site. Then this is also the reason I write in Medium. If I'm just comfortable when reading, it means that when I write on Medium I hope that the same thing will be obtained by the readers of my article.
More readers
One of the difficult things (* very difficult often) is how we invite others to read our writing. In Medium this can be easier. People get various articles that fit the topic being followed. Not to mention the ability to write in Medium Publications where we can convey our writing to more massive readers (* usually) with articles that remain affiliated with our personal accounts.
Focus on writing, not taking care of
myself when I open the admin dashboard of a personal blog, there's always something I have to take care of. As with Medium, I don't care much about those things. I just write and let Medium work.
In general, I agree with Irfan Maulana. I also feel his personal opinion. When we start blogging on Medium, all we have to think about is content. How to make it interesting and many people like it. But what's the point of it all. Isn't blogging besides giving yourself money too.
Well, you can refer to this Good Ramadhan answer:
The medium is built based on the passion to improve the internet so it is not fixated with the amount of traffic and advertisements. This reason is the main reason why Evan Williams created platforms like Medium.
The approach which is then taken by the Medium to improve the quality of content on the internet is to provide incentives for writers on the Medium through the number of claps (applause). The more claps, a writer will get more revenue sharing from premium member subscriptions on Medium.
Non-premium members themselves will always be subject to restrictions on reading premium content (starred content) on Medium three times a month.
This reason also makes the Medium prohibit forms of marketing promotions that are not packaged in a good narrative. Medium really hates spamming promotional content which is commonly found in many other platforms.
That means, although there are no Adsense ads that are often hunted by bloggers there. The writers also can still earn. I also don't know how many income calculations if I become a popular writer in Medium. But to become a premium member the fee is not cheap. From $ 5 to $ 50 a year.
The ultimate goal is indeed that the content that is produced is able to excel. Not carelessly like those that hit Blogger and WordPress. So a Medium blogger, should create good content so they can also earn.
For me, that has answered more than enough why this platform is becoming increasingly popular. And the movement of people, especially good content writers, prefer Medium. Those who do not understand the technical but want to share ideas and knowledge, suitable to use Medium.
Medium – a place to read and write big ideas and important stories
Then how do you create an account on Medium?
Easy boy You can just visit Medium.com and clicking the Get Started button in the upper right corner. You only need to equip yourself with a Google or Facebook account. After that, log in by selecting one of them.
Enter your password and a welcome message will appear in Medium. We just click Dive in.
Then the topic choices will appear or you will make later in the Medium. The conditions must be three topics that reflect your content later, or that you really want to keep up with. For example, about technology or education. After clicking Start Reading.
Your account is ready. Please use this social media blogging taste. But for those of you who want to share ideas and content, you just click on your profile photo in the top right corner. Then click the New Story tab.
Next, the arena will open for editing and writing. Don't be surprised if only the Title text and one + button appear. It's like that. Very simple, but try to learn. It's easy And guaranteed you will instead be addicted. How it looks will be very interesting.
For those of you whose intentions are to blog so that their writings are read by people, without having to bother managing SEO and all that, I'm sure Medium can be a solution. Traffic problems are not an obstacle, because Medium visitors are very abundant. But of course, your content must be interesting before visitors are flooded.
Hopefully there are other alternatives for you to express yourself. For those who already have an account at Medium and want Reva to be creative there. Please follow, let me write it passionately. :)
Greetings creations!
