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How My Article Got 1000 Views

And why it earned less than 1 dollar

Kasun Ranasinghe
8 min readApr 20, 2021

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Author poorly recreating reaction to seeing 1k views by Author

“Ahhhhh!”

Like all great thrillers, this story started with a scream.

It was 3 AM. I was on the toilet scrolling through my Medium statistics when a few big numbers jumped out at me. An old article had reached a thousand views in less than two weeks.

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