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TIL: If you write about sports, fitness, gaming, food or finance on Medium you get ~0 social lift from the platform. medium.freecodecamp.com/what-i-learned-from-analyzing-the-top-253-medium-stories-of-2016-9f5f1d0a2d1c#.agyxj33pn
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Turns out Medium's format isn't amazing for promoting long reading after all. Optimal length is more than 1,440 words, but less than 2,000
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Though I guess only the media was deluding itself about this one. Medium made that clear a while back medium.com/data-lab/the-optimal-post-is-7-minutes-74b9f41509b#.hv8wordo2
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Yes, I know: "So this dataset represents the most popular 0.00336% stories of 2016." Still, not a single traditional pub article in there?