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Have You Ever Had This Happen? It was Weird!
I’m relatively new to Medium, so I’m still learning but this caught me off guard!
I know, I know, Medium admin doesn’t like its writers writing about Medium. But, I’ve only done that once or twice and those posts did not generate many views, so I’m about to do it again. Not to get more views, but to try and gain a more thorough understanding of this platform.
It’s not about my income in a direct way. But, it does involve a higher than normal payment for a post. I just don’t understand why. Thus, this post.
Most of my articles on medium have generated less than a dollar to date. This includes some viral posts in the summer, right after I first joined, on Monarch Butterflies and a few others. But, those posts that garnered thousands of views haven’t earned me much in total, even over the last few months. You see the views were almost all external (98%) for the most part.
But yesterday, I woke to find a recent post that generated almost $2.00 overnight — from views! Huh? I don’t understand. It has 4 internal views and 2 external views and has no comments. There are 50 total claps.
