The Messenger Almanac

A Year,
in Messages

Việt Cường & Trần Uyên — a conversation in 429 days.

281,946 messages✦429 days✦1,558,319 words✦27,200 emoji✦17,177 reactions✦7,158 attachments✦853 links✦longest streak 427 days✦busiest day January 2, 2026✦281,946 messages✦429 days✦1,558,319 words✦27,200 emoji✦17,177 reactions✦7,158 attachments✦853 links✦longest streak 427 days✦busiest day January 2, 2026✦

The tally — a year in cold, soft numbers

Every figure below is a byproduct of attention. Together they describe the texture of a correspondence.

§ MessagesNo. 01
281,946

every ping, reply, and half-formed thought

§ Per dayNo. 02
657

across 429 days of talking

§ Avg. lengthNo. 03
24.0chars

short notes, sent often

§ AttachmentsNo. 04
7.2K

photos, clips, and little artifacts

§ ReactionsNo. 05
17.2K

little hearts, eyerolls, and knowing laughs

§ WordsNo. 06
1.6M

a modest library, really

A pulse, measured daily

Stacked by voice. The peaks mark the days you couldn’t put the phone down.

Việt CườngTrần Uyên100-day trend
§ By month

The loud months

peak · 27,033
§ 24-hour ring

The clock’s shadow

05–12
15%
Morning42K
12–18
26%
Afternoon74.4K
18–24
49%
Evening138.4K
00–05
10%
Late night27.3K

Two voices, one feed

Who filled the air, who filled the margins.

The one on this side

Việt Cường

46.0%
Messages
129,717
Words
656,980
Avg length
22.4 chars
Reactions given
7,389
Reactions received
9,795
Median reply
12 s
The one on the other side

Trần Uyên

54.0%
Messages
152,229
Words
901,339
Avg length
24.2 chars
Reactions given
9,788
Reactions received
7,382
Median reply
15 s
§ Share of messages281,946
46.0%
54.0%
Việt CườngTrần Uyên
§ Share of characters typed6,586,746
44.1%
55.9%
Việt CườngTrần Uyên
§ Favored glyphs

The punctuation of love

n = 25,776
🥹
#112,507
😊
#24,141
🥺
#33,220
😭
#42,394
💀
#51,047
🙂
#6635
😞
#7524
🥲
#8496
😔
#9358
💩
#10204
❤
#11126
🏻
#12124
Việt Cường
  • 🥹
    12,483
  • 😊
    4,140
  • 🥺
    3,216
  • 😭
    2,144
  • 💀
    1,030
  • 😞
    520
  • 🥲
    441
  • 😔
    356
Trần Uyên
  • 🙂
    628
  • 😭
    250
  • 💩
    163
  • 🏻
    124
  • ♀
    79
  • 🖕
    69
  • 🙏
    65
  • 🥲
    55
§ Reactions

Tiny verdicts

17,092 total
  • 😆
    42.3%
  • ❤
    40.8%
  • 😢
    9.8%
  • 😮
    3.4%
  • 😡
    2.3%
  • 🥰
    0.4%
  • 👍
    0.3%
  • unknown
    0.3%
Việt Cường’s reacts
😆3,567
❤2,587
😢620
😮356
😡74
Trần Uyên’s reacts
❤4,387
😆3,669
😢1,047
😡324
😮219

A vocabulary of
two

Stopwords removed. Sized by how often each word surfaced. The larger it is, the more it lived rent-free.

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