Myth: follower growth is the metric your analytics app should track

Myth: follower growth is the metric your analytics app should track

Every Threads analytics dashboard headlines follower count, and the advice is to optimize for it. On Threads that's misleading because the algorithm surfaces posts to non-followers heavily, so reach and followers decouple fast.

Tested Minter.io and Metricool reporting for 12 days, comparing what each foregrounds.
— Both push follower charts to the top
— The actually predictive numbers, reply rate and non-follower reach, are buried two tabs deep

The correction: configure your dashboard to lead with reach-per-post and reply rate. Followers are a lagging vanity line.

Annoying limitation: neither tool lets you set a custom default metric, so you re-navigate every session.

Verdict: follower-first reporting is Wait; reach-and-reply views are Worth it.