How our data works

Every number on SocialCount comes from a platform's official API. We don't scrape, simulate or "estimate" counts between updates. If a platform only publishes data every few minutes, you'll see the latest verified value and exactly when it was checked.

Our servers fetch each creator on a schedule that respects the platform's limits, cache the result and push it to every viewer at once over a live connection. A thousand people watching the same counter cost the platform one request, not a thousand.

Growth figures (today, this week, this month) and history charts are calculated only from observations we've recorded. When we started tracking a creator recently, we say so rather than guessing what happened before.