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What Does it Take to Make a Story Boostable?
The top boosted stories in 2024 for The Honest Perspective
The boost program and the Medium platform itself have undergone many changes over the past year, but one thing has stayed constant… your desire to know what you need to do to get your work the readers it deserves and your pocket, the pay it needs.
The truth is there can never be a direct or simple answer. Trends, by their nature, change. Medium is committed to continually updating itself to give the audience what it wants and that means it will always be fluid.
But still you ask… what do I do?
My answer is this, become the best writer you can be.
Before you arrived on this platform, you wanted to write, to share your stories with as many people as possible, and perhaps earn at the same time.
Once you got here, just like as with any social media platform, the algorithm pushed its way under your skin, and once you realised what being boosted would mean, you wanted it more than anything.
Perhaps a piece or two of your own got recognised in that way and you saw the jump in interaction and revenue and wanted more. I have to admit, there’s nothing better than pouring yourself into a creative…