How These Growth Strategies Are Harming Your Account
It’s High Time You Stop Hindering Your Own Growth.
I was reading about how Simran observed her followers dropping from 500 to 497, which surprised her. She remembered a name and decided to randomly check her followers list for it.
To her surprise, the account that had followed her just a day ago, whose stories Simran had read and engaged with to foster a stronger relationship, had unfollowed her the very next day!
Petty but peculiar.
Not only this but there are several other things Medium writers do to grow inorganically that are equally annoying.
They do not even realise how these petty inorganic strategies are harmful to their own accounts!
I. The Follower-Following Paradox
Discovering the Follow-for-Follow Web.
One peculiar trend I’ve observed is that some writers follow a multitude of others.
This is a turn-off because it feels like a follow-for-follow strategy, indicating they might lack a genuine fanbase based on their writeups.
As a result, when such people follow me, I often find myself in a dilemma wondering if it’s genuine admiration or a strategy. I…
