Hi Britt, at the moment you get a notification. If you get this notification you KNOW you'll earn MORE with this story since Medium will push it to the next milestone (from 0-10, 10-50, 50-100 claps). For this metric, it doesn't matter how often a user claps. It counts if someone claps. A person that claps = fan.

In the future there will be a boost system (don't know wheter we'll get a notification) and we can also earn more money because more people read our work. Does this help?