Medium to start paying writers based on how many likes they get

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Blogging stage Medium has reported that it will begin paying its scholars in light of what number of preferences, or 'applauds', their articles get. Creators share stories on various themes here and it has turned out to be amazingly well known as of late with numerous brands utilizing it as opposed to conveying WordPress on their sites. 


Medium presented the "applaud" highlight fourteen days back and keeping in mind the end goal to influence it to emerge, they need perusers to utilize it to pay the distributors whose stories they read most. For the time being, the element has just taken off to a few distributors yet Medium means to kick it into high gear rapidly so larger part scholars can profit by this. 


Medium will deduct a particular cost from the $5 every month membership which the peruser has bought to peruse the articles on the stage. In any case, it stays vague how much the distributor will get paid as they haven't determined a "cost per applaud" or some other metric. 


Medium won't take any offer from the profit of the distributors until further notice, which is a similar procedure Facebook embraced when it propelled Instant Articles. 


Medium was established in 2012 by Evan Williams, who has helped to establish a few organizations including Twitter, for which he additionally filled in as the CEO. In only five years, Medium has begun rounding up once again 100 million guests to its webpage consistently and is a gold dig for eager Internet perusers. 


 Have you ever written or read an article on Medium ? What are your thoughts regarding this strategy ?