A follower figure above two half-finished drafts tells a visitor exactly the wrong thing about you.
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One with two published pieces and both of them thin. On a platform where people arrive through the writing rather than the profile, the figure at the top is read as a claim about how much you have written. If the archive does not support the claim, the sample will work perfectly and leave you worse off than before.
Then the question narrows. Note the figure and the time before ordering, wait for the window to close, and check once from a browser where you are not signed in. Your own view of your profile is cached and carries information a visitor does not get.
Whether anybody who follows reads the next piece. That is decided by the next piece, and it is measured over months rather than in an evening. A confirmed route is a narrow finding and the only one available at this size.
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