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AnthropicX · Feb 18, 2026 · official

Claude Code turn duration over time

Anthropic's line chart drew 93.4K views on X: 0.2x its median post and #394 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold by views. Read Oct 12, 2026.

How long does Claude Code work before stopping?

Published by Anthropic on X, Feb 18, 2026. Source: x.com
54/ 100

ViralChart score

Wide but thin

More views than the median post but a lower engagement rate: many saw it, few acted. Common for big accounts.

#550 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold · #41 of 56 Anthropic posts. Score = views 40%, likes 30%, engagement rate 15%, save rate 15%, each as a percentile of every AI chart post we hold.

Our read

It sits in Wide but thin: views at or above the AI chart median, engagement below it, at #550 of 1,162 AI chart posts.

Its 93.4K views sit at 0.22x Anthropic's 431K median, #41 of 56 Anthropic posts.

It led its day: #1 of 3 posts from this account on February 18, 2026.

Engagement lands at 0.47%, the 25th percentile among AI chart posts, #870 of 1,162.

0.05views per follower

93.4K views from an account with 1.8M followers.

0.2xAnthropic's median post

93.4K views, where Anthropic's typical post gets 431K.

3posts from Anthropic that day

Part of a run of 3 posts on Feb 18, 2026. This one was #1 of 3 by views that day.

bottom 25%engagement rate

0.47% of viewers liked, reposted, quoted or replied. The median post gets 0.73%.

Public X numbers from our read on Oct 12, 2026. Peers: 1,162 AI chart posts we hold and 56 from Anthropic.

Where it sits

Reach against resonance

Each dot is a post. Right is more views, up is a higher engagement rate. The lines are the medians, so the four corners are the four kinds of post.

Among 1,162 AI chart posts we hold

Score #550 of 1,162

Views93.4K#394top 34%
Likes395#502top 43%
Engagement rate0.47%#870bottom 25%
Save rate0.067%#649bottom 44%

Among 56 Anthropic posts

Score #41 of 56

Views93.4K#41bottom 28%
Likes395#41bottom 28%
Engagement rate0.47%#37bottom 35%
Save rate0.067%#15top 26%

Growth

One read so far

Views93.4K
Age at our read236 days
Views per day of life396views divided by days since it was posted

Dots are our reads. The dotted line from the day it was posted to our first read is a gap, not data.

Anthropic's posts over time

Every post from this account we hold, by date and views. This one is marked; the line is the running median of the last 10.

News · Feb 18, 2026

Anthropic charts Claude Code turn duration over time

A line chart on how long Claude Code works before stopping drew 93.4K views and a 0.47% engagement rate, below the 0.73% median among AI chart posts.

What happened

Anthropic posted a line chart on Claude Code turn duration over time on February 18, 2026. It came with 2 other posts from the account that day, on clarification and interruption rates by goal complexity and on Claude Code interruption rate by experience.

The numbers

It reached 93.4K views, #394 of 1,162 AI chart posts, against a 39.9K median among AI chart posts. Its score of 54 ranks #550 of 1,162 AI chart posts and #41 of 56 Anthropic posts.

The lesson

A line chart on turn duration drew 93.4K views but a 0.47% engagement rate, below the 0.73% median among AI chart posts. The chart shows turn duration over time, and the save rate of 0.067% is the number to weigh against that reach.

What it means

At 0.22x Anthropic's 431K median views, this post sits below the account's own reach, and its 0.47% engagement rate trails the account's 0.56% median. The gap between 93.4K views and a 25th percentile engagement rate is the measured shape of this post.

Written by ViralChart from public numbers read on Oct 12, 2026. Every number is checked against our data before it is shown.

Data and API

69 points read off this chart

Estimated from the image 62%
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Showing 12 of 69. All points, the redraw and the maker

Max plan · API

GET https://viral-chart.com/api/posts/29e9ef27ed08.json
GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/29e9ef27ed08.json
GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/29e9ef27ed08.skill.md

Static files in this prototype. The post JSON holds the public numbers, ranks, score, quadrant, our reads and, when checked, our copy.

API · Max

Use this chart via API

On the Max plan you can pull this chart's numbers with the provenance of each one, as JSON or CSV, with its redraw spec, or call it from an agent over MCP. Chart id 29e9ef27ed08.

PathReturnsPlan
GET/api/v1/charts/29e9ef27ed08Title, publisher, date, form, point count; with a Max key, the data linkOpen
GET/api/v1/charts/29e9ef27ed08/dataEvery point with its provenance and confidence, plus the redraw spec. Add ?format=csv for CSVMax
GET/api/v1/charts/29e9ef27ed08/render?view=1The draw-only view this page usesOpen
POST/mcpTool get_chart_data with this id, for Claude, Cursor and other agentsMax
curlMax
curl -s https://viral-chart.com/api/v1/charts/29e9ef27ed08/data \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VIRALCHART_KEY"
Claude CodeMax
claude mcp add --transport http viralchart https://viral-chart.com/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $VIRALCHART_KEY"

60 requests a minute per key; over that you get 429 with Retry-After. Up to 5 keys per account, made on your account page and shown once. Without Max, the data route answers 402 with a link to the plans. The numbers describe a chart its publisher owns, and every file carries a license note.

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