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Social platform census 2026: language, verification and audience size across 29.9 million catalogued accounts on X, Telegram, Bluesky, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Kick and Twitch Emirhan Güven (25074274) Emirhan Güven (25074277) Marketing communications Marketing technology Communication and media studies not elsewhere classified social media statistics verified accounts X blue check Telegram channels Bluesky language distribution audience size distribution LinkedIn companies open data <p>A census of the Pinlyx Data API catalogues taken on 19 September 2026: 29,864,168 catalogued accounts and channels across eight platforms (X 21.3M, Bluesky 4.16M, Telegram 3.26M, Twitch 731k, Kick 319k, YouTube 35k, Instagram 24k, TikTok 22k, all PostgreSQL planner estimates). The dataset gives, per platform, the language and country distribution (an exact hourly rollup on X, a full read of every row on YouTube, TikTok and Instagram, the API's block sample elsewhere with sample sizes), the share of accounts carrying each platform's own verification, business and automation flags (exact counts of every X account above 100,000 followers, every Telegram channel above 100,000 subscribers and every Bluesky account above 10,000 followers, plus 2,000-account slices at 100, 300, 1,000, 3,000, 10,000 and 30,000 followers), the audience-band distribution, a hand check showing that 70 of the 100 largest Telegram channels labelled Turkish are Uzbek, LinkedIn company records aggregated by industry, size band, country and founding decade (220,546 companies, no personal data), and the state of the API's own research engine (3,492 hypotheses tested, 0 promoted). Headline: 96.2% of the 10,913 catalogued X accounts above one million followers carry a blue check, against 46.5% between 100,000 and one million and 10.5% at 1,000 followers. The catalogue is a discovery corpus, not a random sample of any platform. Long-format CSV (platform, axis, value, count, share, method, cohort, cohort_rows) and a structured JSON.</p><p>Method, tables and charts: <a href="https://pinlyx.com/research/social-platform-census-2026">https://pinlyx.com/research/social-platform-census-2026</a>. Archived on Zenodo under DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22844606. Published by Pinlyx under CC BY 4.0.</p> 2026-09-19T12:36:27Z Dataset Dataset 10.6084/m9.figshare.33942412.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Social_platform_census_2026_language_verification_and_audience_size_across_29_9_million_catalogued_accounts_on_X_Telegram_Bluesky_YouTube_TikTok_Instagram_Kick_and_Twitch/33942412 CC BY 4.0