Is Promoting Medium Articles on Social Media a Waste of Time? Here’s Why I Think So
For a very long time I tried to promote all the articles I write on Medium on different social platforms such as Facebook or X, but unfortunately today I gave up doing this, and in this article I will tell you the reasons why.
One of the main reasons was the fact that when I was promoting an article on Facebook or even on X the number of people who visualized the article was very small, and many of them didn’t have an account on Medium, which is why the impact was almost zero.
Most of the time the people who were interacting with the article on X were the ones I already knew from Medium and would have interacted with anyway, so what I was doing on X was just a waste of time.
A second reason was that I had upgraded to Friend of Medium so I could add links for my article to be read for free by friends without having to upgrade to Medium to do so.
But unfortunately on X I was temporarily suspended about 3 times for this reason, and when I asked for explanations I was not offered anything concrete but only that for them the link was suspicious.
Probably if I would have continued in this way the X account would have been suspended. Have you guys experienced the same thing?
