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Friday the 13th. 717 views, 1 like. My baseline engagement sits between 4-16%. Either my content suddenly became terrible overnight, or something else was going on. I didn't want to guess. I built a script to pull my Threads metrics and let the numbers tell me. A Meta employee confirmed what the data showed. The tool is open-source now. What I found, how I found it, and the tool to check yours.
My Threads engagement dropped 30x overnight. I built a script to pull 30 days of data and found evidence of algorithmic suppression. Here's what the numbers showed.
I posted my Threads suppression data on LinkedIn. A Trust & Safety Specialist at Meta commented saying it highlights what people inside already suspected.
I posted about Threads suppression on Threads itself. The post got 0 views and wouldn't load. The platform proved the thesis while I was writing about it.
The suppression tracker is on GitHub. MIT licensed, zero dependencies. You can check your own data now. Meanwhile, I've been writing here more and posting there less.