Track rivals where the numbers are real.
Competitor tracking only where the data is public.
A rival’s analytics are readable in exactly three places, because exactly three networks publish a public account’s numbers to anyone: YouTube, through the Data API’s public channel statistics; Mastodon, whose account metadata is open by design; and Bluesky, whose AT Protocol exposes a public profile and its post history. Everywhere else a rival’s numbers are owner-only, so Bloom tracks nobody there. That is a smaller promise than “track all your competitors” — and it is the only version of the promise that is true.
| Network | Competitor tracking | What's readable | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| YouTube | Yes | Public channel statistics | The Data API returns subscriber and view counts for any public channel. |
| Mastodon | Yes | Public follower + post counts | Account metadata is public and readable without the account's permission. |
| Bluesky | Yes | Public profile + post counts | The AT Protocol exposes a public account's profile and post history. |
| No | Owner-only | Graph API insights are returned only for accounts you own. | |
| Facebook Pages | No | Owner-only | Same Graph API limit — a Page's insights are owner-only. |
| No | Admin-only | Analytics are restricted to pages you administer. | |
| X | No | Paid, not exposed | Read access is paid and exposes no usable third-party account analytics. |
| Threads | No | Not exposed | The Threads API publishes no third-party account metrics. |
| The other 10 networks | No | Not exposed | Bloom registers no competitor source rather than show an invented number. |
A made-up chart is worse than a stated limit.
It would be trivial to draw a confident competitor dashboard for Instagram, LinkedIn and X and let a buyer assume the numbers are real. They would not be. The platforms return those insights only to the account owner, so any figure a tool shows you for a rival on those networks is either scraped against the terms or simply invented — and an invented number is the most dangerous output a tool can produce, because it reads as fact and gets acted on.
Owner-only means owner-only
Instagram and Facebook insights come from the Graph API, which returns them for accounts you own and no others. LinkedIn restricts analytics to pages you administer. X read access is paid and still exposes no usable third-party account data, and Threads publishes no third-party metrics at all. None of that is a Bloom limitation — it is the platform’s rule, and Bloom works inside it rather than around it.
No silent zero, no fake figure
Where a network keeps a rival’s numbers private, Bloom shows that as a written limit, not as a blank chart that implies nothing is happening and never as a fabricated follower count. The only competitor-style numbers on this page that look live sit inside a product mockup and are labelled illustrative — that distinction is the whole point.
Honesty is a citation asset
Stating plainly what the product does and does not do is exactly what an answer engine can quote and be correct about, and exactly what keeps a buyer from churning in week two over a capability they assumed in week one. The same principle runs through why Bloom is built this way and through the scoped claims on the unified inbox.
The time each audience actually shows up.
Most tools offer one “best time to post” borrowed from an industry average. Bloom learns the slot YOUR audience shows up for, and keeps that evidence separate per network — because the hour a Mastodon crowd is active is not the hour a YouTube audience is, and averaging the two gives a time that suits neither. Time of day is one of the learner’s three dimensions, six buckets wide, so the recommendation sharpens as your own posts land.
The best-time learner and the publishing queue are the same system seen from two angles: the learner says WHEN a slot earns engagement, and the queue — with its per-account rate governor and catch-up cap — makes sure the post actually lands there safely. A slot the learner recommends still passes every guard on the publishing page, and still respects the approval chain your workspace sets. The timing is evidence; the queue is the discipline that turns it into a published post without risking the account.
Three honest signals, one calendar.
Competitor tracking, the viral engine and best-time timing are not three products — they are three readings of the same question: what should you post next, and when. Each is scoped to what the data honestly supports, and together they answer that question without a single invented number.
Track, where it is public
On YouTube, Mastodon and Bluesky you can watch a rival’s public trajectory and borrow what is working. Elsewhere the honest move is to study YOUR niche through your own results, which the next two signals do — no scraping, no guesswork dressed as insight.
Spot, while it is still rising
The viral engine catches the hook or format gaining traction early enough to act on, because a trend you join after it peaks is just noise. Caught early, it becomes the next few posts on the calendar rather than a retrospective.
Time, per audience
The best slot for each network’s audience is learned from your own engagement and fed straight into the queue, so the post that rides a rising format also lands when the people who care are actually there. See how the whole product fits together.
What this deliberately is not.
The fastest way to lose a customer is to let them assume a capability that is not there. These are the three assumptions buyers most often arrive with, answered before sign-up rather than after.
Not competitor analytics everywhere
There is no Instagram, LinkedIn, X, Threads or Facebook competitor dashboard, because those networks do not expose a rival’s numbers to any third-party app. Bloom tracks the three networks whose data is genuinely public and states the limit on the rest — it does not scrape and it does not invent.
Not a guaranteed-virality promise
The viral engine surfaces what is gaining traction so you can ride it; it does not promise a post will go viral, because no honest tool can. It improves the odds by pointing you at formats and times that are earning real engagement in your niche right now, measured rather than asserted.
Not a borrowed average
Best-time is not an industry chart lifted from someone else’s accounts. It is the slot your own audience showed up for, learned per network, which is why it can differ from every “best time to post” listicle — and why it is right for you. Anything beyond this, tell us at contact before assuming it.
Competitor and viral questions, answered plainly.
Which networks can Bloom track competitors on?
Why doesn't Bloom show competitor analytics for Instagram, LinkedIn or X?
What does the viral engine actually surface?
How does Bloom pick the best time to post?
Does Bloom ever invent follower or engagement numbers?
Which networks report engagement back to Bloom at all?
Watch what works. Invent nothing.
Bloom runs on its own application and its own sign-in — an Autocloz account is not required. Connect your accounts, track rivals where the data is genuinely public, and let the viral engine and the best-time learner point the calendar at what is working.