Malaysian Social Pulse

— public posts from — accounts on Threads and X. — are in Malay or Malay–English, and Malaysians post most at — Malaysia time.

Updated 1 Nov 2026, 11:56 Malaysia time
Posts collected
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Threads and X, deduplicated
Posted in the last 7 days
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by post date
Accounts heard from
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distinct authors
Search topics
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Malaysian topics searched
Replies
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of posts answer another post

Rising this week

Words and two-word phrases whose share of posts this week is highest compared with all earlier posts, used by at least 15 different accounts. Indonesian posts are left out. Hover for the numbers.

What gets engagement

Search topics by average likes per post (topics with at least 20 posts). Likes are as counted when we collected each post.

Busiest topics this week

Posts dated in the last 7 days, per search topic, both platforms.

All topics

Every search topic with at least 20 posts. Malay share is the part written in Malay or Malay–English. Click a column to sort.

PlatformTopicPostsLast 7 daysAvg likesTotal likesMalay share

Language mix

Share of each platform's posts by language, from a word-list detector tuned for Malaysian Malay. Very short posts can't be told apart.

Hashtags people use

Ranked by how many different accounts used each tag, so broadcasters' own brand tags don't crowd the list.

When Malaysians post

Posts by weekday and hour, Malaysia time (UTC+8), both platforms. Darker is busier.

Posts per day, last 60 days

By post date. Collection started on 29 October 2026, so earlier days hold only what search results and account histories reached back to; the jump at the end is our collection starting, not a surge in posting.

Where people argue

Topics ranked by replies and quotes per like (median over posts with 10+ replies and 5+ likes). A high ratio usually means disagreement or a pile-on rather than applause.

What drives engagement

Search-result posts only, so a few huge accounts don't decide it. Average likes for each kind of post against that platform's average post: right of the line gets more, left gets less. Associations, not causes.

Training-data balance

Approximate tokens (characters ÷ 4) by where posts came from and their language. Shows where the pretraining corpus is heavy and where it is thin.

Thinnest topics

Search topics with the fewest approximate tokens so far: candidates for more searching or related terms.

Communities and influence

Conversation communities

Groups of accounts that mostly reply to each other (accounts with 3+ reply links, grouped by who they talk with). The central accounts have the most replies inside the group; the topics are where its members turn up in our searches.

GroupPlatformAccountsReplies insideShows up in

Likes per post by account type

Followed accounts, typed from their name and bio by a small AI model. The number after each bar is how many accounts.

Conversations, language and culture

How fast replies come

Time from a post to each reply we collected, as a share of each platform's replies.

Where Malay and English mix

Topics with the highest share of Malay–English mixed posts (topics with 50+ posts in Malay, mixed or English).

Regional dialects

Posts using two or more marker words of a dialect (for example hang/depa/habaq for northern, kamek/kitak for Sarawak). A rough signal: short lists miss most dialect posts.

Slang in use

Malaysian slang words by how many posts use them. Hover for the number of accounts.

Mood and issues

Read by a small AI model (Claude Haiku) on a sample of — posts: up to 30 of the newest posts per search topic and platform, in Malay, mixed or English. Expect mistakes on sarcasm and heavy slang; read these as directions, not exact shares.

Most negative and most positive topics

Net mood: share of positive posts minus share of negative posts (topics with 15+ posts read).

What people complain about

Complaints by sector, as a share of all posts read.

The complaints that got most likes

Each complaint summarized by the model in a few words.

ComplaintSectorTopicPlatformLikes

Brands people talk about

Companies and products named in the posts read, with the net mood of those posts.

BrandMentionsPositiveNegativeNet

Political names

Parties and politicians named, and the stance of those posts toward them as the model read it. A small sample from our topics: not a poll.

NameMentionsSupportOpposeNeutral

What topics are really about

The most common themes the model gave posts within each search topic (count in brackets).

TopicPosts readMain themes

How to read this

This is a sample of the Malaysian conversation, not all of it. Posts come from 212 Malaysian search topics (newest first on revisits), the accounts we follow (found by searching and by checking who writes in Malay), and the full history of larger X accounts. Topics we didn't search and accounts we don't follow are missing. Likes and replies are snapshots taken when each post was collected, so older posts have had longer to gather them. Retweets are left out; each post is counted once even if found several ways.