Weekly release
Posts published 28 Sep – 4 Oct 2026 on Reddit, Bluesky, YouTube, Hacker News, arXiv, Google News and Exa, each measured on its own: 97 readings.
Published 8 Oct 2026. Its figures never change. Cite it with its permanent link. What these states mean
September eraCaptured live from 16 Sep and filled in from archives.
This release’s conditions
No prose is stored for this release.
The first place on each of the three platforms that count people, in its reading’s own words. Three platforms, three rankings; nothing here is added across them.
10,876 distinct people on Reddit
On Reddit, 10,876 distinct people posted about Claude between 28 September and 4 October 2026: 16,896 posts, an estimated 6.20% of that week's Reddit posts about AI, leaving out spam, bot, incentive and templated automated posts (99.9% of these posts had an identifiable author).
Claude · Reddit · posts from 28 Sep – 4 Oct 2026 · n 16,896 posts · author coverage 99.9% · 7 days: 7 active
1,421 distinct people on Bluesky
On Bluesky, 1,421 distinct people posted about Claude between 28 September and 4 October 2026: 2,118 posts, 3.17% of that week's Bluesky posts about AI, leaving out spam, bot, incentive and templated automated posts (100.0% of these posts had an identifiable author).
Claude · Bluesky · posts from 28 Sep – 4 Oct 2026 · n 2,118 posts · author coverage 100.0% · 7 days: 7 active
200 distinct people on YouTube
On YouTube, 200 distinct people posted about ChatGPT between 28 September and 4 October 2026: 215 posts, 6.92% of that week's YouTube posts about AI, leaving out spam, bot and incentive posts (100.0% of these posts had an identifiable author).
ChatGPT · YouTube · posts from 28 Sep – 4 Oct 2026 · n 215 posts · author coverage 100.0% · 7 days: 7 active
Each card is the lead measured statement of one platform’s first place: the stored statement whose figures include that platform’s people count, shown verbatim. Platforms rank separately; a subject leading two platforms appears twice.
Every subject’s place on each platform that counts people, side by side. Read down a column for one platform’s ranking; read across a row to see how differently the platforms rank one subject.
| Rank | Subject · lineage | Reddit ▼ sortedn 272,647 postsbar: people, #1 = 10,876 | Blueskyn 66,804 postsbar: people, #1 = 1,421 | YouTuben 3,109 postsbar: people, #1 = 200 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ClaudeAnthropic | 10,876#1 | 1,421#1 | 128#3 |
| 2 | ChatGPTOpenAI | 4,786#2 | 1,240#2 | 200#1 |
| 3 | GeminiGoogle DeepMind | 2,458#3 | 901#3 | 35#6 |
| 4 | GPTOpenAI | 2,237#4 | 609#4 | 131#2 |
| 5 | QwenAlibaba | 2,170#5 | 326#9 | Hidden · n 8 people: n 8 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 6 | CodexOpenAI | 1,947#6 | 235#10 | 42#5 |
| 7 | Claude CodeAnthropic › Claude | 1,686#7 | 361#7 | 21#7 |
| 8 | DeepSeekDeepSeek | 1,136#8 | 351#8 | Hidden · n 9 people: n 9 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 9 | GrokxAI | 931#9 | 457#5 | 21#7 |
| 10 | MuseMeta | 739#10 | 430#6 | 45#4 |
| 11 | GLMZhipu AI | 655#11 | 120#12 | Hidden · n 1 people: n 1 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 12 | MiniMax H-seriesMiniMax | 598#12 | Hidden · n 7 people: n 7 people, below the threshold of 20 people. | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 13 | Microsoft CopilotMicrosoft AI | 480#13 | 224#11 | Hidden · n 11 people: n 11 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 14 | GemmaGoogle DeepMind | 368#14 | 57#19 | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 15 | LlamaMeta | 243#15 | 48#20 | Hidden · n 8 people: n 8 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
People on Reddit · n 272,647 posts#1 = 10,876
People on Bluesky · n 66,804 posts#1 = 1,421
People on YouTube · n 3,109 posts#1 = 200
Distinct people who posted about each subject, 28 Sep – 4 Oct 2026, as of 8 Oct 2026 12:00Z; published. Each column is scaled to its own #1 and ranks on its own; nothing is added across platforms, because one person can post on several. Rows follow Reddit, the default platform. Hatched cells are hidden, never shown as a number. The stored reason, e.g. YouTube Qwen: “n 8 people, below the threshold of 20 people”. Each column’s n 272,647 posts on Reddit, 66,804 on Bluesky and 3,109 on YouTube.
Posts, no peoplearXiv and Exa are not ranked. Article sources have no authors, so people aren’t counted. Posts per subject, largest first:
arXiv n 698 posts · 85 subjects
Qwen 45, GPT 23, Claude 12, Gemini 9 posts, and 81 more subjects
Exa n not recorded · 85 subjects
Not counted this week: Exa has no day between 28 September and 4 October 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there’s no figure to show.
The shape of the week on each platform: when people posted, drawn from what was published each day.
Reddit272,647
Bluesky66,804
YouTube3,109
Hacker News315
arXiv698
Google News
Exa
Posts published each day, 28 Sep – 4 Oct 2026 (Mon to Sun), each platform on its own scale; the number is the week’s posts.
When a post was written and when AIDRAN caught it are different days. For each platform, what was published each day against what was captured that day, and how much of the capture was catching up.What was published each day against what AIDRAN captured that day, and how much of it was catching up.
29 Sep: published 154,488 · captured 167,042 · late 3
own scale, top = 167,042
1 Oct: published 21,404 · captured 24,674 · late 4
own scale, top = 24,674
1 Oct: published 1,414 · captured 1,433
own scale, top = 1,433
2 Oct: published 179 · captured 191
own scale, top = 191
29 Sep: published 200 · captured 300
own scale, top = 300
No capture this week: collection hadn’t started. Posts published on these days were counted from later captures.
own scale, top = 1
4 Oct: published 1,416 · captured 2,604 · late 1,233
own scale, top = 2,604
Per platform and day, 28 Sep – 4 Oct 2026: posts published that day (published_n), posts captured that day whatever their publish date (captured_n), and the part of those captured late (late_captured_n), from conditions.coverage, computed 8 Oct 2026 21:23Z. Each platform on its own scale. A flag bar marks a partial, low-capture or late-heavy day. Not-started days show published only: those posts were captured later and do count.28 Sep – 4 Oct 2026, from conditions.coverage, computed 8 Oct 2026 21:23Z. Each platform on its own scale; a flag bar marks a partial, low-capture or late-heavy day.
Families and their products on Reddit. A post about Claude Code usually also counts for Claude, so the bars sit together and are never summed.Families and their products on Reddit, side by side and never summed.
The family entry already includes its products; not added.
› Gemini API (Google AI Studio) 76 · Gemini app 43
› DeepSeek Harness 77 · DeepSeek API 47
› Grok app 36
› Muse (agent app) 52
People on Reddit, 28 Sep – 4 Oct 2026, as of 8 Oct 2026 12:00Z, all on Reddit’s one scale (#1 = 10,876). Groups follow each subject’s stored lineage.
Posts, threads and distinct people on each platform: the context for every share in this release. Each platform stands alone.The context for every share. Each platform stands alone.
| Platform | Posts | Threads | People | Author cov. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| hidden | hidden | |||
| Bluesky | 100.0% | |||
| YouTube | 100.0% | |||
| Hacker News | 100.0% | |||
| arXiv | not applicable | 0.0% | ||
| Exa | hidden | hidden | not applicable |
28 Sep – 4 Oct 2026 · as of 8 Oct 2026 12:00Z · counted from posts’ own data · no platform coverage-limited. People count distinct platform identities and are never added across platforms, so there is no total row. People are not applicable on article sources. Reddit’s posts include its comments. Each figure’s n 272,647 posts on Reddit, 66,804 on Bluesky, 3,109 on YouTube, 315 on Hacker News, 698 on arXiv and not recorded on Exa.
Each subject against its previous stored reading under the same method, share and people, platform by platform. Each has its own page, for its size: one cell a subject and platform.
What AIDRAN was collecting on each platform, each day of the week. A day can hold posts even when collection hadn’t started: they were captured later.What AIDRAN was collecting on each platform, each day.
| Platform | Mon 28 | Tue 29 | Wed 30 | Thu 1 | Fri 2 | Sat 3 | Sun 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 28 Sep: active | Tue 29 Sep: active | Wed 30 Sep: active | Thu 1 Oct: active | Fri 2 Oct: active | Sat 3 Oct: active | Sun 4 Oct: active | |
| Bluesky | Mon 28 Sep: active | Tue 29 Sep: active | Wed 30 Sep: active | Thu 1 Oct: active | Fri 2 Oct: active | Sat 3 Oct: active | Sun 4 Oct: active |
| YouTube | Mon 28 Sep: active | Tue 29 Sep: active | Wed 30 Sep: active | Thu 1 Oct: active | Fri 2 Oct: active | Sat 3 Oct: active | Sun 4 Oct: active |
| Hacker News | Mon 28 Sep: active | Tue 29 Sep: active | Wed 30 Sep: active | Thu 1 Oct: active | Fri 2 Oct: active | Sat 3 Oct: active | Sun 4 Oct: active |
| arXiv | late heavyMon 28 Sep: active, late heavy | Tue 29 Sep: active | Wed 30 Sep: active | Thu 1 Oct: active | Fri 2 Oct: active | low captureSat 3 Oct: active, low capture | low captureSun 4 Oct: active, low capture |
| Google News | Mon 28 Sep: no lane | Tue 29 Sep: no lane | Wed 30 Sep: no lane | Thu 1 Oct: no lane | Fri 2 Oct: no lane | Sat 3 Oct: no lane | Sun 4 Oct: no lane |
| Exa | Mon 28 Sep: no lane | Tue 29 Sep: no lane | Wed 30 Sep: no lane | Thu 1 Oct: no lane | Fri 2 Oct: no lane | Sat 3 Oct: no lane | Sun 4 Oct: no lane |
Coverage computed 8 Oct 2026 21:23Z · as of 8 Oct 2026 12:00Z · frozen with the release, never recomputed. Each day opens what it holds.A bar marks a flagged day.
Published 8 Oct 2026. Its figures never change. Cite it with its permanent link.
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