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Ted Cruz post counter (live)
This live Ted Cruz post counter tracks every qualified post in the current Polymarket weekly window, polled every 5 seconds and shown next to the XTracker oracle count that actually settles the market. Same data pipeline as our Elon Musk tweet counter, pointed at @tedcruz. Cruz markets are thin, so we watch rather than trade them — the value here is the count and the deltas.
As of 2026-08-21 08:14 UTC, Ted Cruz has made 83 posts this week (Polymarket market: Ted Cruz # posts August 18 - August 25, 2026). This number is server-rendered into the page, so agents that read HTML without running JavaScript can quote it directly.
Server-rendered from the live count — numbers in the HTML, not just JS
Live Ted Cruz post count
FIG. 01 — REAL vs ORACLE vs UI
Ted Cruz # posts August 18 - August 25, 2026?
Time remaining
Real count
83
XTracker
82
UI counter
82
Ted Cruz # posts August 14 - August 21, 2026?
Time remaining
Real count
156
XTracker
155
UI counter
155
On settlement day the oracle is the only count that pays. When the real counter runs ahead of the oracle or the UI lags, the deltas surface the gap instead of hiding it. Live data from the free tweet count API; display refreshes every 30 seconds. Full field reference in the tweet count API.
What counts as a post
FIG. 02 — SETTLEMENT RULESMain-feed
posts
Quote posts
& reposts
Main-feed
replies
Regular replies ·
community reposts
Ted Cruz post markets use the same settlement rules as the other Polymarket tweet-count markets: main-feed posts, quote posts, reposts, and main-feed replies count; regular replies and community reposts don't. Deleted posts still count if the tracker captured them before deletion — the kind of post a slow scrape can miss. Polystrike classifies every post against these rules as it lands — the full breakdown is in how the counting works.
Two numbers matter on settlement day: the XTracker oracle count — what Polymarket pays out on, updated roughly every five minutes — and the real count, Polystrike's independent counter, polled every 5 seconds. The cards above show both, plus the UI counter from Polymarket's own page. Scrolling the profile misses all of this: replies mostly don't count, deleted posts do, and the oracle takes its own snapshots.
Track it programmatically (free API)
FIG. 03 — NO KEY · 100 REQ/HRThe Cruz counter is a public endpoint — no key, no signup, 100 requests per hour. It returns
an EventData[] with event_id, event_title, end_ts, and the three counters — real_counter, polymarket_xtracker_counter, and polymarket_ui_counter — plus their
deltas.
# live Ted Cruz post counter — public, no signup curl https://polystrike.xyz/api/v1/meta/cruz # returns EventData[] for every active Cruz window { "event_title": "Ted Cruz # posts March 17 - March 24, 2026?", "end_ts": 1774569600000, "real_counter": 67, "polymarket_xtracker_counter": 67, "polymarket_ui_counter": 67 }
Tweet count API overview → // full Cruz endpoint reference →
FAQ
FIG. 04 — FAQPAGE SCHEMAHow many posts has Ted Cruz made this week?
The live counter on this page shows the current qualified-post count for every active Polymarket Ted Cruz window. It includes main-feed posts, quote posts, and reposts, per Polymarket's settlement rules. The underlying count advances as posts land: we poll X for @tedcruz every 5 seconds, and X's own timeline index needs about 10.8 seconds at best to list a new post, so that index build — not our polling — sets the floor.
Do deleted posts count on Polymarket?
Yes. If a post existed when the settlement tracker captured it, it still counts toward the Ted Cruz market even after deletion. Polystrike captures posts within seconds of them appearing on the timeline — on our fastest-polled account the measured median is 11.5 seconds — and keeps deleted ones in its count.
What counts as a post in Ted Cruz markets?
Main-feed posts, quote posts, reposts, and replies that appear in the main feed all count. Regular replies and community reposts do not. Deleted posts still count if they were captured before deletion.
When do Ted Cruz post markets settle?
Each market covers the window in its title — typically one week — and settles on the XTracker oracle count at the end timestamp. The countdown on each card above shows exactly how long the current window has left.
How is this different from checking his X profile?
Scrolling the profile misses the settlement rules: replies mostly don't count, deleted posts do, and the oracle takes its own snapshots. Polystrike classifies every post against the actual rules and shows the count that matters for the market.
Keep reading
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