How to Find the Number of Followers for Any Medium Publication
Using this little URL trick
If you write on Medium, it’s no secret that getting into publications can boost your visibility, resulting in your work being seen by an otherwise unreachable audience. The ‘I follow you and you’ll follow me’ game doesn’t really work on this platform. Unless you haphazardly go viral, you’ll need to get published in a few publications to garner any attention.
There’s a publication for almost anything you write, but determining which publications are the best fit for your article requires a bit of research. One thing to consider is how many followers a publication has. Not every pub follows the same layout, so sometimes it can be difficult to find the number of followers. But there is a little trick that will show you the number of followers for any publication.
- Go to the publication you are curious about. This only works on a browser, not the Medium app.
- In the address bar of the browser, add: /latest to the end of the URL and press enter.
Voila! That will bring you to a version of the publication’s layout that will show you all the latest stories, but on the side of the page, it will display the follower count.
