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US Consumer Credit
The Kobeissi Letter's line chart drew 153.6K views on X: 0.7x its typical post and #36 of 48 The Kobeissi Letter charts we track by views. Read Oct 12, 2026.
BREAKING: Total consumer credit rose +$8.3 billion in August, to a record $5.19 trillion.
Why it spread
This chart post spread because it landed on a hot topic that week, came from an independent author, and paired a record-breaking number with a long-run line chart, drawing 152,821 views, 870 likes, 115 reposts, 24 quotes and 53 saves.
What worked
- The post leads with a breaking record figure, total consumer credit at 5.19 trillion dollars, which gives the audience an immediate reason to stop and share.
- The line chart showing US consumer credit rising over decades matches the story of a 14th consecutive monthly increase and a 684 billion dollar rise since the start of 2022, so the visual and the text reinforce each other.
- The account is an independent author on a hot topic that week, and the post is branded with a source line, which helped it travel beyond a single feed.
What to borrow
We could take our own long-run series and frame the newest point as a record or a streak, then let a simple line chart carry the decades of context while the caption states the latest change in plain numbers.
Careful
Do not copy the exact figures or treat this as proof that any single design choice caused the spread, since the hot topic and the independent author are doing much of the work and the quote rate is only described as above average.
Written by our analysis model from the measured numbers above, not by The Kobeissi Letter.
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| GET | /api/v1/charts/39f53cfb0bc9 | Title, publisher, date, form, point count; with a Max key, the data link | Open |
| GET | /api/v1/charts/39f53cfb0bc9/data | Every point with its provenance and confidence, plus the redraw spec. Add ?format=csv for CSV | Max |
| GET | /api/v1/charts/39f53cfb0bc9/render?view=1 | The draw-only view this page uses | Open |
| POST | /mcp | Tool get_chart_data with this id, for Claude, Cursor and other agents | Max |
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-H "Authorization: Bearer $VIRALCHART_KEY"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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How far did The Kobeissi Letter's "US Consumer Credit" chart travel?
153,583 views, 872 likes, 115 reposts and 52 saves on X, read Oct 12, 2026. A normal post from @KobeissiLetter gets about 230.4K views.
What kind of chart is it?
A line chart. US consumer credit rises over decades.
Can I use The Kobeissi Letter's chart?
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