The Meaning of “Claps”, from Ancient Rome to Medium
The pursuit of applause is thousands of years old
10 min readAug 14, 2022
What exactly does a “clap” on Medium mean?
People have hotly debated this ever since Medium’s executives first introduced the clap in 2017. When — soon after — Medium announced that claps would affect how much a writer was paid for any given post, it treblecharged the…
