There’s a 50/50 there actually. Most editors aren’t going to look at a random persons social media to decide whether to accept a short story or a poem (except m

There’s a 50/50 there actually. Most editors aren’t going to look at a random persons social media to decide whether to accept a short story or a poem (except maybe to make sure they’re not posting offensive screeds or something before choosing to accept a piece that already made it through several rounds of selection). There simply isn’t much time in an editors day to be fretting about picking the writers with the biggest followings. However, some editors will ask certain writers to submit to their venues, and as you become more famous editors will (despite what they try to say) become positively biased towards you when they see your name in their queue. But that’s very different from looking you up on social media; more likely, you got talked about in the editors social circle and if you have 500 or 5000 followers didn’t matter then…