What good are thousands of followers if only a handful actually read your stories?

No good at all, I’m fairly sure. This is what I had to say on the subject nearly a year ago (writing mainly about Twitter). I’m interested to see that you’re not using Twitter. I gave up on both Facebook and Pinterest but can’t quite bring myself (yet) to ditch the Twitter account. It’s quite frustrating: sometimes a tweeted link to a Medium story will bring in a respectable number of views/reads but, more often than not, not.