The Messenger Almanac

A Year,
in Messages

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

281,946 messages429 days1,558,319 words27,200 emoji17,177 reactions7,158 attachments853 linkslongest streak 427 daysbusiest day January 2, 2026281,946 messages429 days1,558,319 words27,200 emoji17,177 reactions7,158 attachments853 linkslongest streak 427 daysbusiest 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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