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> why is Medium so popular? It's not. I only have heard about it b/c of the YC connection, reading articles here posted from Medium.
by orthoganol 11y ago
> why is Medium so popular?
It's not. I only have heard about it b/c of the YC connection, reading articles here posted from Medium.
- Nadya 11y agoIt's popular in the Twitterverse as the go-to longform blog platform for people without a personally hosted blog who also want to avoid Tumblr. A big reason for that is probably because a Twitter co-founder created it. ;) I heard about it before I even browsed HN or new what YC was. Mostly I read the "War is Boring" articles, specifically by David Axe.
- prawn 11y agoOne strange thing about the Medium-Twitter link is that most Medium stories I come across can't actually be posted on Twitter via the Twitter client for OSX because the @ symbol in the URL breaks. And the OSX client is how I mostly interact with Twitter.
- Nadya 11y agoIf you click "Share" you should be able to share on Twitter and it gives you a Twitter-friendly URL to use.