BlackTwist Threads September 2026 Monthly Report

BLACKTWIST MONTHLY THREADS REPORT

State of Threads — September 2026

Name: Threads Creator Performance Data — September 2026
Creator: BlackTwist
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

A data-driven look at creator growth and engagement

Total Posts

140,755

Total Views

270.9M

Sample Size

443

Creator accounts with tracked post analytics

Avg Engagement Rate

1.6%

Top Format by Views

Long Form Thread

8,755 avg views per post

Most Engaging Format

Short Post

4.87% avg engagement rate

In September 2026, 443 BlackTwist creator accounts with tracked analytics published 140,755 posts, generating more than 271 million views, down from August's 145,042 posts and 406 million views. Long form threads dominated reach with 8,755 average views per post, nearly 13x a short post, while short posts edged out long posts on engagement rate (4.87% vs 4.70%). The clearest growth signal was conversation: creators who cleared 500 replies posted a median growth of 16.94%, ten times the 1.69% of creators with fewer than 10. Volume mattered too: the 179 creators posting 10+ times a week led on both average (44.05%) and median (4.60%) growth. Sunday delivered the best reach (5,904 avg views), while Friday drove the best engagement rate at 3.25%.

Growth Leaderboard

Which creators grew the fastest in September 2026?

Top 10 by Follower Gain

#CreatorGainedTier

@modernmoneysystem86,873 → 136,610

+49,737

Large

@stevenhavre104,209 → 129,068

+24,859

Large

@eleraonline28,913 → 40,362

+11,449

Mid

@syed._.shahfiq7,312 → 14,250

+6,938

Micro

@digitalfreedom.cj1,327 → 7,196

+5,869

Micro

@afifuddeen131,968 → 137,655

+5,687

Large

@sofia.roseonline17,102 → 22,761

+5,659

Mid

@aliyah.talks18,072 → 23,630

+5,558

Mid

@richluckyg_15,306 → 19,918

+4,612

Mid

@xervesjeeves44,969 → 49,262

+4,293

Mid

Top 10 by Growth Rate

Minimum 100 followers at start of month

#CreatorGrowth %Tier

@_herhealingspace125 → 3,558

2746.4%

Nano

@decode.manifest160 → 2,953

1745.6%

Nano

@digitalfreedom.cj1,327 → 7,196

442.3%

Micro

@clickmonics187 → 801

328.3%

Nano

@browngirlaligned1,004 → 3,411

239.7%

Micro

@job.ready11146 → 491

236.3%

Nano

@katakomandan460 → 1,526

231.7%

Nano

@tgat_vocab500 → 1,573

214.6%

Nano

@kerrietsystrategist353 → 1,110

214.4%

Nano

@jenelledebtdestroyer790 → 2,355

198.1%

Nano

What the fastest growers have in common

September's top growers were mostly thread-first and relentless. @modernmoneysystem posted the month's largest absolute gain, adding 49,737 followers (86,873 → 136,610), while @_herhealingspace turned 125 followers into 3,558, a 2,746.4% jump that topped the growth-rate board. Among the top growers publishing through BlackTwist, the cadence was extreme: @eleraonline (+11,449) shipped 720 posts averaging 47,294 views, every one of them a multi-post thread, and @sofia.roseonline (+5,659) published 726, with 701 threads. The exception proves there is more than one route: @_herhealingspace grew on just 71 posts, 52 of them short posts.

Top Performing Posts

The posts that made the biggest impact in September 2026

@climbtowealthLong Form Thread

WHAT A MAN STARTS WANTING AS HE GROWS: Age 20-22 → wants respect Age 23-24 → wants freedom Age 25-26 → wants a job that pays Age 27-29 → wants savings he can point to Age 30-31 → wants a place of his own Age 32-33 → wants a home that feels safe Age 35-36 → wants his time b

2.2M

389

0.02% ERView post →

@larrywilsonn_Long Form Thread

My wife kept a list. I found it in year nine, in the back of a notebook. Nine things she had asked me for between year six and year nine. Next to each one, in her handwriting, what I had said. Here is the bill. 1. A walk after dinner, Tuesdays.

2.1M

1.5K

0.08% ERView post →

@richluckyg_Long Form Thread

A PATTERN I HAVE NOTICED IN PEOPLE WHO ARE HARD TO GET CLOSE TO: 1. They are extremely easy to talk to.

2.0M

18.0K

385

1.1K

120

0.97% ERView post →

@climbtowealthLong Form Thread

You: " Can I shift my start to 9:30? Daycare doesn't open till 9. " HR: "Start time is 8:30 sharp. No flexibility." You: "Understood." The next week. Manager: "The London client wants a 6AM call. Can you take it from home?" You: "Start time is 8:30 sharp. No flexibility."

1.7M

3.7K

0.23% ERView post →

@withkunramLong Form Thread

dark signs you're an attractive person

1.5M

3.4K

135

0.23% ERView post →

@thebittertruth_btLong Form Thread

For 9 years I gave my wife Ritu 12,000 a month and called it household money. In January, hunting for the AC remote, I found her blue notebook. Every month accounted for, down to 20 rupees. On the last page, a list titled Later. Kurti 800. Face cream 450. Bus to Nagpur to see her

1.4M

761

0.06% ERView post →

@sofia.roseonlineLong Form Thread

MALE ADHD INTIMACY PATTERNS:

1.1M

2.8K

364

0.29% ERView post →

@larrywilsonn_Long Form Thread

WHEN A MARRIAGE IS ACTUALLY OKAY, THE KIDS DO THESE SIX THINGS. Mine stopped doing four of them the year we drifted. They were six and nine. Nobody told them anything. They just stopped. 1. They sit between you on the couch.

1.0M

522

0.05% ERView post →

@lustfreemanLong Form Thread

THE MOST ATTRACTIVE THING A MAN CAN HAVE ISN’T MONEY, MUSCLE, OR GAME. It’s something most guys lose the second they really like a woman. And she feels it immediately:

995.6K

940

0.10% ERView post →

@withkunramLong Form Thread

SIGNS YOU HAVE A VERY STRONG AURA: 1. You don’t have many friends.

980.2K

5.6K

524

0.63% ERView post →

Content Format Breakdown

How do long form threads, short posts, and long posts compare?

Average Views by Format

FormatPostsAvg ViewsAvg LikesAvg ER

Long Form Thread18,6558,755451.25%

Short Post15,08969134.54.87%

Long Post1,82942515.84.70%

Most Views per Post

Long Form Thread

8,755 avg views, 12.7x more than short posts

Highest Engagement Rate

Short Post

4.87% avg ER, ahead of long posts (4.70%)

Posting Frequency vs Growth

Does posting more often lead to faster follower growth?

Median Follower Growth by Posting Frequency

FrequencyCreatorsAvg GrowthMedian Growth

1-2/week2811.5%0.2%

3-4/week216.5%0.7%

5-6/week2018.4%1.3%

7-10/week (daily)2110.7%1.9%

10+/week (2+/day)17944.0%4.6%

The frequency advantage

Creators posting 10+ times per week (the largest active group at 179 creators) led September on both average growth (44.05%) and median growth (4.60%). Below that, median growth climbed steadily with cadence: 0.20% at 1-2 posts a week, 0.69% at 3-4, 1.34% at 5-6 and 1.95% for daily posters. As always, averages are outlier-sensitive. The 10+/week bucket's 44.05% is inflated by a handful of breakout accounts, two of them above 1,700%, and one 239.74% account lifts the 1-2/week average to 11.52%. The medians are the honest read, and they say the same thing: more posting, more growth.

Engagement to Growth Pipeline

How does engagement translate into follower growth?

Reply Volume vs Follower Growth

Engagement-to-Views Correlation

Reposts-Views

0.439

Strongest correlation

Likes-Views

0.451

Quotes-Views

0.414

Replies-Views

0.203

Weakest correlation

Engagement Rate vs Views

ER BucketPostsAvg ViewsMedian Views

<1%18,2217,970436

1-3%6,4212,821286

3-5%3,7051,386269

5-10%4,640806180

10%+2,56090563

Engagement drives growth

September's reply ladder was noisier than usual but pointed the same way: creators who cleared 500 total replies posted a median growth of 16.94%, ten times the 1.69% of those under 10. The middle rungs wobbled (5.12% median at 50-99 replies, 3.39% at 100-499), and the 50-99 bucket's 169.76% average is breakout outliers at work, so read the medians. Likes held the strongest correlation with views (0.451), just ahead of reposts (0.439) and quotes (0.414), while replies trailed at 0.203: replies signal depth, not distribution. Posts under 1% engagement rate still pulled the highest average views (7,970), the same pattern as prior months. Viral reach accumulates far faster than engagement keeps up.

Content Analysis

What content characteristics correlate with better performance?

Content Length vs Average Views

Day of Week Performance

DayPostsAvg ViewsAvg ER

Sunday4,5765,9042.68%

Monday4,9174,5323.03%

Tuesday6,1864,6483.08%

Wednesday5,9864,5103.02%

Thursday4,7294,4242.94%

Friday4,7014,7653.25%

Saturday4,4785,8442.63%

Media vs Text-Only Posts

With Media

2,110 posts·512 avg views·3.59% avg ER·12.4 avg likes

Text Only

33,463 posts·5,181 avg views·2.91% avg ER·40.7 avg likes

Content insights

The weekend ruled September for reach: Sunday posts led with 5,904 average views and Saturday followed at 5,844, while Friday topped engagement at 3.25%. One-liners under 50 characters won both reach (10,001 views per post) and engagement (3.62%), though they were also the rarest bucket at 1,382 posts. The media split held again: text-only posts out-reached posts with media roughly 10-to-1 on average views (5,181 vs 512), though media posts still engaged better (3.59% vs 2.91% ER). Media builds connection, but plain text travels further.

Creator Spotlights

Standout creators from different follower tiers

@_herhealingspaceHer Healing Space

Nano

Followers125 → 3,558

Growth+3,433 (2746.4%)

Posts71

Total Views248.3K

Avg ER2.28%

@iam.dorethiaDorethia | Personal Finance + Business Coach

Micro

Followers1,558 → 4,137

Growth+2,579 (165.5%)

Posts115

Total Views184.6K

Avg ER3.03%

@climbtowealthClimb to Wealth

Large

Followers55,291 → 57,889

Growth+2,598 (4.7%)

Posts261

Total Views6.3M

Avg ER0.21%

Methodology

How we collected and analyzed the data

Sample

459 Threads accounts with at least one published post between September 1-30, 2026, and 2,719 accounts with follower snapshots tracked across the month. All accounts are users of BlackTwist, a Threads analytics and management tool. This is not a random sample of all Threads creators — results reflect the behavior and performance of BlackTwist users specifically.

Definitions

Engagement Rate: (likes + replies + reposts + quotes) / views
Short Post: Single post under 250 characters
Long Post: Single post of 250+ characters
Long Form Thread: Multiple connected posts
Nano: Under 1,000 followers
Micro: 1,000 - 10,000 followers
Mid: 10,000 - 50,000 followers
Large: 50,000+ followers

Minimum Thresholds

Growth rate rankings require a minimum of 100 followers at the start of the month. Engagement rate post rankings require a minimum of 1,000 views. Post leaderboards are capped at two entries per author and exclude duplicate reposts of identical text, so a single high-volume account cannot fill a whole list.

Language Scope

All post-level analysis — top posts, format breakdown, content length, day of week, and media comparison — covers English-language posts only (35,573 of the 40,149 root posts published in September, or 88.6%). Language is detected heuristically from post content. Follower growth rankings are language-agnostic and are not filtered, so the leaderboards include creators who publish in other languages.

Caveats

This data represents BlackTwist users only and may not reflect broader Threads trends. View counts and engagement metrics are cumulative snapshots and may include engagement from after September 30. Correlation values are Pearson coefficients and do not imply causation.

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