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Ronaldo pays tribute to Messi after international retirement

Rank
Running
7h
Updated
1h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
9
Regions
5
Countries
9
Languages
9

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Punch Nigeria · English 7 Oct, 18:40 UTC

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Read it also in Español (1) · Français (1) · Norsk (1) · Tiếng Việt (1) · Türkçe (1) · Русский (1) · العربية (1) · فارسی (1) · +7 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 9 after 8 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Khabar Online, 7 Oct, 18:20 UTC.
  2. Second country: Turkey, with Hürriyet.
  3. Second region: Africa, with Punch.
  4. Fastest hour: +4 outlets from 7 Oct, 18:20 UTC.
  5. Now: 9 outlets.

Where it travelled

9 of 9 hours

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The 9 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

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  • Africa 3 outlets · 3 countries · 34%
  • Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 11%
  • Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 11%
  • Europe 2 outlets · 2 countries · 22%
  • Middle East 2 outlets · 2 countries · 22%

First movers

  1. Khabar Online 7 Oct, 18:20 UTC
  2. Hürriyet +7m
  3. Punch +20m
  4. VG +49m
  5. Interfax +1h 42m

Latest arrivals

  1. Thanh Niên 8 Oct, 00:52 UTC
  2. Al Chourouk 7 Oct, 22:23 UTC
  3. Infobae 7 Oct, 20:16 UTC
  4. PressAfrik 7 Oct, 20:15 UTC
  5. Interfax 7 Oct, 20:02 UTC

The figures

Coverage
9 outlets in 9 countries, across 5 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 9 outlets, 1 state-owned, 8 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 3: Nigeria, Senegal, Tunisia. Americas 1: Argentina. Asia-Pacific 1: Vietnam. Europe 2: Norway, Russia. Middle East 2: Iran, Turkey. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
Arabic, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Norwegian, Russian, Turkish, Vietnamese.
Timeline
Earliest article Khabar Online, 7 Oct 2026, 18:20 UTC. First seen 7 Oct 2026, 18:30 UTC. Last seen 8 Oct 2026, 00:52 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region International. Topic Sport. Hard news Judged not hard news. Left off the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
5.03, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
7 Oct 2026 75 8.02 7 7 7 7 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 7 Oct, 18:30 UTC · Updated 8 Oct, 00:52 UTC

Covered by 9 outlets

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Africa 3 outlets

  • Al Chourouk Tunisia 7 Oct, 22:23 UTC
    كريستيانو رونالدو يعلق على رسالة ميسي "الوداعية"
  • PressAfrik Senegal 7 Oct, 20:15 UTC
    Retraite internationale de Messi : Cristiano Ronaldo lui adresse un message fort
  • Punch Nigeria 7 Oct, 18:40 UTC
    Ronaldo pays tribute to Messi after Argentina farewell

Americas 1 outlet

  • Infobae Argentina 7 Oct, 20:16 UTC
    Cristiano a Messi: "Todo mi respeto por lo que has logrado con Argentina"

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

  • Thanh Niên Vietnam 8 Oct, 00:52 UTC
    Ronaldo lần thứ hai bình luận vào bài đăng của Messi: ‘Gửi đến anh cái ôm thật chặt’

Europe 2 outlets

  • Interfax Russia 7 Oct, 20:02 UTC
    Роналду восхитился вкладом Месси в историю футбола
  • VG Norway 7 Oct, 19:09 UTC
    Ronaldo hyller Messi: – En historie som vil bestå for alltid

Middle East 2 outlets

  • Hürriyet Turkey 7 Oct, 18:27 UTC
    Cristiano Ronaldo'dan Messi'ye mesaj: Sonsuza dek yaşayacak tarih yazdın
  • Khabar Online Iran 7 Oct, 18:20 UTC
    پیام احساسی رونالدو برای خداحافظی مسی + عکس
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