This article is about what I’ve witnessed and felt in this wonderful platform (Medium) in the past couple of months. Medium Partner Program allowed anyone to make money out of their writings based on views and reading time and that helped many writers generate income until Medium recently introduced the new requirements to be eligible for Partner Program, at least 100 followers.
Medium has played a vital role in revolutionizing in the open writing space. People from various domains are emerging out with extraordinary views and perspectives. The writers didn’t have to wait for their work to get published and viewed by readers around the world. Writers were mostly concerned on quality writing and delivering the best work. Until now, Medium has asked the writers to also focus on building at least 100 followers or they can’t earn out of their article no matter how many times it gets viewed.
I am an avid reader and read multiple articles a day, but I don’t follow every writer. It’s not because they’re not good, it’s just a habit. I am sure it applies to most of the reader.
Partnership Program just doesn’t have negative effects but some positive too. I believe it’ll help curb the effect of baseless and deluding articles aiming to make easy money. The most common type of articles I see these…
