2nd Census: 1,346 Posts Analyzed (Threads Insights)

2026-10-06

Twelve days after round 1 (closed 2026-09-24, 570 posts). This time, instead of scraping, I pulled all 1,346 posts from @soojeong9099 with zero gaps via the official Threads API (threads_manage_insights scope).

Total views: 7,228,225 per the Threads Insights UI (as of 2026-10-06). The per-post API sum is 4,158,524 — about 3.07M lower — because the API views metric is labeled "in development" by Meta and undercounts.

Method — What Changed vs. Round 1

	Round 1 (09-24)	Round 2 (10-06)
Method	Aside browser scraping	Direct Threads Insights API calls
Posts collected	570 (565 shown + 5 unshown)	1,346 / 1,346 succeeded / 0 failed
View precision	Rounded to 10K (430,000 etc.)	Exact values (435,075 etc.)
Period	2026-08-26 – 09-24	2026-08-23 – 10-06

With the API there is no scroll limit and no rounding error. 100-post paging + per-post insights calls with checkpoint resume: all 1,346 succeeded.

Overall Score (collected 2026-10-06)

Total views: 7,228,225 (Threads Insights UI figure, 2026-10-06)
Per-post API sum: 4,158,524 (reference — undercounted per Meta's "in development" label, gap ≈ 3.07M)
Likes 19,222 · Replies 4,607
Median 10 · Mean 3,090 (per-post API basis)
571 posts showing 0 views (includes freshly published at collection time)

Bucket Distribution — Round 1 vs. Round 2

Bucket distribution and detail figures below are per-post API data. Only the total uses the Threads Insights UI figure (7,228,225).

Views bucket	Round 1 (09-24)	Round 2 (10-06)	Change
100,000+	4	8	+4 (2×)
30,000–99,999	7	18	+11
10,000–29,999	17	43	+26
7,000–9,999	9	19	+10
3,000–6,999	23	57	+34
1,000–2,999	45	101	+56
Under 1,000	465	1,100	+635
Total	570	1,346	+776

Cumulative view:

1,000+: 105 → 246
3,000+: 60 → 145
10,000+: 28 → 69
30,000+: 11 → 26
100,000+: 4 → 8

The 1,000+ hit rate barely moved: 105/570 (18.4%) in round 1 → 246/1,346 (18.3%) in round 2. Success rate per swing held steady while swings grew 2.4×, so absolute wins grew 2.3–2.5× in every bucket.

What the Last 12 Days Added (API basis)

Posts published after 09-25 — 229 of them — generated 2,018,640 views: 48.5% of the total API sum (4,158,524) came from 12 days of posting. By month:

August (08-23–): 364 posts · 67,578
September: 862 posts · 3,176,978
October (01–06): 120 posts · 913,968

October hit 910K views in 6 days.

Rank	Published	Views
1	09-15	435,075
2	09-15	334,497
3	09-23	290,770
4	10-05	218,851
5	09-27	116,635
6	09-18	115,035
7	09-30	109,162
8	09-27	108,267
9	09-12	90,789
10	09-11	89,025

How to Read the Numbers

Total views 7,228,225 is the Threads Insights UI figure (2026-10-06). It differs from the per-post API sum (4,158,524) by ≈ 3.07M because API views is Meta's "in development" undercounted metric. The UI figure is the total.
Threads Insights glossary ⓘ defines views as "the number of times your posts were displayed in the selected period."
Round 1 also used UI (scraped) figures, so round 2 uses the UI figure for consistency.
Round 1 views are UI-rounded (430,000); round 2 API values are exact (435,075). The bucket comparison is the point.
Round 1 overview total (3,920,505) vs. round 2 UI total (7,228,225) cover different periods and populations — do not compare directly.
Median 10 (round 2) vs. 146 (round 1) is not comparable. Round 2 covers the full population including 571 zero-view posts; round 1 was a shown-only sample.
Of the 571 zero-view posts, most (569) are reposts — reposts carry no view metric. The other 2 were published right before collection, so metrics hadn't landed yet.

Summary

45 days, 1,346 posts, 7.22M total views (Threads Insights UI). The 1,000+ hit rate holds at 18%, and every winning bucket is 2.4×. Virality is not a past record — it is still compounding today. The bottleneck is still not the writing. IT IS the number of swings.

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Published 2026-10-06 | Link2Threads