Passed 5,000 newsletter subscribers

Forgot to post this milestone at the end of 2020, but Blogging for Devs reached 5,000 email subscribers!

Reaching this milestone took about 6.5 months.

It's now at 5,433 after some tweets that drove people to my profile, who then clicked on my pinned tweet to the newsletter.

I shared this on twitter, but the opt-in rate on mobile Twitter on the homepage (also the source of most traffic) is a shocking 31%.

My goal is to reach 20,000 subscribers in 2021, meaning I need to pick up the pace and add about 1,200 subscribers per month.

My next steps are growing organic traffic to the website, working on opt-in rate for pages besides the homepage, and launching a basic referral program.