Does Medium Allow Multiple Accounts? What the Rules and Terms Say

Can you have more than one Medium account? #

The pages read for this guide set no cap on how many accounts one person may hold and do not forbid a second one. According to Medium's official blog (post dated 21 March 2024), "multiple memberships are allowed on Medium", while using multiple accounts to engage with your own stories is not. The Terms of Service page read (effective 1 September 2020) says nothing about account counts, and the Help Center treats accidental duplicates as a problem to fix. So the rules concern what you do with accounts.

A figure of seven does appear in the pages read, but it is a limit on publications: a Medium user can own up to seven of them. It is not a limit on accounts.

What do the rules say about using several accounts? #

The Medium Rules page read carries the date June 2023 and the Partner Program Terms say they are effective from 1 June 2026, so open the linked pages before you rely on a detail.

What happens when a rule is broken? #

• Suspension without notice. The Rules say Medium may suspend an account or remove content at any time, without notice, and name protecting its services and community as a main reason. The Terms likewise say it may suspend or end access with or without notice.
• Notice, usually. When Medium investigates or disables content on your account it says it will tell you, unless it believes the account is automated or acting in bad faith, or that telling you could add to harm.
• Duplicates. Accounts that break the no-duplicate-content rule are suspended until they comply, and repeat breaches lead to permanent suspension.
• Spam and misuse. The Help Center calls these the most common reason for suspension. Its examples include posting mainly to drive traffic to an outside site, affiliate marketing disguised as reviews, using deception to earn revenue or traffic, and abusing the Partner Program. Suspended accounts show an in-product alert to the owner.
• Earnings abuse. The blog post says that using multiple membership accounts to falsely inflate earnings will lead to platform suspension.
• Partner Program. The Help Center says removal is permanent and that there is no appeals process.
• Restrictions. Medium says it may restrict some privileges on new accounts or where suspicious activity is detected, and urges you to audit the account and fix anything missing or outdated.

How do you stay inside the rules with several accounts? #

1. Give each account its own purpose and its own stories. Never post the same story from two accounts, even unlisted.
2. Do not use another of your accounts to engage with your own stories.
3. Do not share one account to give several people membership access. The Help Center says the Paid Terms do not allow it, and the Membership Terms bar sharing your password for that purpose. For team publishing use a Publication; see the team access guide.
4. Do not automate creating accounts, posting or interacting.
5. Do not buy, sell or trade accounts or interactions, and do not use services that offer more views, reads, follows or claps.
6. Keep written authority for any brand or client account you run.
7. If an account is restricted or suspended, appeal. Do not open a new account to carry on.

What if one of your accounts is restricted or suspended? #

The Help Center's suspension page says to review Medium's terms, rules and policies and bring the account into compliance before appealing. It links an appeal form and says humans review appeals submitted through its forms. The Medium Rules and the Appeals page say instead that if you believe an account was restricted or disabled in error, or Medium lacked relevant context, you can write to trust@medium.com, and that Medium will consider good-faith appeals. Because the pages differ, follow the route shown in your own alert; the suspension page is the one written specifically for suspended accounts, so start there. Describe what happened honestly and once. Partner Program removals cannot be appealed.

Where ADSSPEED fits #

ADSSPEED is a desktop app for Windows and macOS that manages many browser profiles. If you legitimately run more than one Medium account, such as a personal one and a brand one you are authorised to manage, each profile keeps its own cookies, local data and browser settings, so the accounts can stay signed in side by side. Profile data is kept on your own computer. ADSSPEED does not change what Medium's rules allow or how Medium treats an account. See what a browser profile is. ADSSPEED is not affiliated with Medium.