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Does Medium Have Glitches?

When your Medium followers skyrocket all of the sudden

Alfredo del Arenal
4 min readJun 21, 2022

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My Medium Header — Showing my name, my background picture (Los Cabos famous rocky arch) and My Followers section.
Medium header from the Author

The other day, as I was reading some interesting authors that I’ve been discovering on this platform I noticed that my account was showing 719 followers when my previous count in that morning was in the 60s mark.

I am a fairly new Medium member with only 3 stories written in the last 3 or 4 weeks, and, although I’ve been following some authors and seen some are following me back, others discovering me, following me, clapping my 3 stories and having some nice chatting in the chat section it was certainly a big, a BIG (did I say ‘big’ enough?) shocking surprise to see my number of followers sky jumped like that on the same day!

I was in such disbelief, that I even open my account in different web browsers to confirm this was real. I opened my account on my Mac, on my iPhone, on my iPad…and all showed the exact same number of followers!

Lastly, I asked my brother who recently joined Medium to check my profile and see if he was also seeing the same 719 number as I was.
Yes, he said, I see 719 followers. I was ecstatic! (to say the least)

How come my 3 stories went so viral, this fast ?!

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Alfredo del Arenal
Alfredo del Arenal

Written by Alfredo del Arenal

Researcher • Solopreneur • Blind & Low Vision Accessibility Advocate • AI • Digital Marketing Founder @ Delaren Consulting LLC • Field Agent @ ERTC Express

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