You would think that travel would have a smaller audience than self-improvement, but actually, the opposite is true. As of writing this, the “self-improvement” tag has 147K followers, whereas the “travel” tag has 230K subscribers.

I do agree that self-improvement stories are more likely to go viral.

If you’re interested in the authors that go viral again and again, check out the write-up.

harrisonjansma/Analyzing_Medium

Here are the most frequent authors in the top 1000 most-clapped stories of the data.

The Ten Most Frequent Authors in Top 1k:

Benjamin P. Hardy 96

Kris Gage 38

Nicolas Cole 29

Thomas Oppong 22

Zat Rana 20

umair haque 18

Tim Denning 16

Anthony Moore 16

Darius Foroux 15

Aytekin Tank 14