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Diving Into Medium Curation
There seem to be some misconceptions.
What does being curated on Medium mean?
It is very straightforward: Medium (either the algorithm or an actual person) chooses a story and distributes it through one or more topics throughout the entire platform. It doesn’t mean your story will be in their daily digest email, but it COULD be, and Medium (the platform) is more likely to suggest your story to people interested in those or similar topics.
The stories that get curated and distributed are usually clean, edited, well-researched, and add value to readers (according to Medium themselves).
And not every great story gets chosen to be curated. Not every curated story is great. And most importantly, curation is no guarantee of something getting a lot of likes or going viral.
People ask about curation A LOT. So, I’ve gathered some information and am putting up my own information as data.
Let’s look at 4 stories of mine which have been chosen for curation in the last month.
These two posts from just last week were both curated in the “Freelancing” category:
