213,338,000!
My writing corner.
That number is my total recipients on the Quora Digest as of last night. I started tracking this when I joined Quora and was first added to the Digest in December 2017. It took me five years to reach 63 million, and I did that in the month of August alone.
When you break that all down by day and add in monthly views per day, it works out to about 2.3 million or so per day, or almost 100k per hour.
I remember when I was thrilled to hit 100k in a month. The other elusive component is that this is worldwide, so my popularity in Tongo Tongo doesn’t track to Missouri.
If I ask Grok 2.0 or GPT-4o the significance of this, I get these very generalized answers that an eighth grader could conclude, so neither is much help in putting this in some context. In a way, I think of it as circulation versus actual readers. Every writer at the New York Times benefits from their circulation of 8.8 million online subscribers, but it doesn’t mean they were actually read or that a reader has a clue who they are. I’m a bit like an obscure columnist in a newspaper I’d guess.
It almost doesn’t matter, but if I didn’t toot my own horn once in a while and mention these numbers, the world would probably never know except for someone looking at data inside Quora. As it is, I get buried in comments and don’t have enough hours in the day to answer them all.
I keep thinking this will level off at some point and that readers will get tired of me, so I keep screenshotting my numbers, thinking I’m at my peak, but then I just keep going. Thanks to all of you out there who read my work and participate. I don’t know what else to say. I’ll just sort of wallow in it a bit if you don’t mind.