Send Me Anonymous Messages: Where 12,242 Messages Came From
Of 12,242 anonymous messages with a sender hint, 92.3% came from a phone, across 142 countries. What the hint shows you, and what it never shows.
When you post "send me anonymous messages," who actually answers? We counted 12,242 anonymous messages that arrived on our site between 2026-04-30 and 2026-11-02 and carried a small sender hint. The main finding is simple: 92.3% of them were written on a phone. They came from 142 different countries. Nigeria, the United States and India sent the most messages (counting only countries whose senders reached at least 10 links). Below we go through the numbers. We also explain what the country and device hint tells you as a link owner, and what it never tells you.
Almost every message is typed on a phone
Each message with a hint is labeled with a rough device type: phone, computer or tablet. Here is how the 12,242 messages split up:
| Device type | Messages | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Phone | 11,297 | 92.3% |
| Computer | 899 | 7.3% |
| Tablet | 46 | 0.4% |
Computers made up a small slice, and tablets barely showed up at all. So when a message arrives, it was most likely typed on a phone.
That matters more than it sounds. However you share your link, it has to work well on a small screen.
Messages came from 142 countries
The senders were spread across 142 different countries. To keep the list meaningful, we only included countries whose senders wrote to at least 10 different links. These six led the way:
- Nigeria: 2,220 messages (18.1%) to 137 links
- The United States: 1,374 messages (11.2%) to 195 links
- India: 1,049 messages (8.6%) to 172 links
- The United Kingdom: 591 messages (4.8%) to 134 links
- Indonesia: 565 messages (4.6%) to 53 links
- Brazil: 362 messages (3.0%) to 23 links
A few things stand out. Among the countries we listed, Nigeria sent the most messages, but senders in the United States and India reached more links: 195 and 172, compared with 137 for Nigeria. Senders in Indonesia and Brazil reached far fewer links: 53 and 23.
The data does not tell us why. These counts only show where senders were connecting from, not where any link was posted.
Most links with 5+ messages get them from just one kind of device
We also looked at links that got at least 5 messages. There were 439 of them. Of those, 328 (74.7%) received messages from only one device type, and 111 received messages from more than one.
In plain terms, on most of these links every message came from the same kind of device. We did not break those 328 links down by device.
If you see "computer" next to a message, that is less common (7.3% of messages), and the label itself can be wrong. It tells you nothing about who sent it.
What the hint shows you, and what it never shows
When a message lands in your private inbox, you may see a coarse hint next to it. Here is the full picture:
- What you may see: a country and a device type (phone, computer or tablet).
- What you never see: the sender's name, email address or IP address.
- What the hint can get wrong: both parts come from the sender's connection, so they can be off. Someone using a VPN, for example, can show up as being in a different country.
Please do not treat the hint as a clue to who wrote something. A message tagged with your own country and "phone" could be from almost anyone. The hint gives you a rough bit of context, nothing more. It is not a way to unmask anyone.
If a message bothers you, the hint is not the tool to use. You can block a sender (the block works by network connection), mute keywords, report or delete single messages, or delete the whole board. Messages that contain personal data or match severe-content patterns go to a Filtered folder. Sexual content involving minors is blocked outright and never stored. Pattern matching is not perfect, and some things can slip through. We explain how it works in our article on what gets filtered.
How to use this when you share your own link
Almost all messages (92.3%) were sent from a phone, so the best place for your link is wherever people are already tapping. A few practical ideas:
- Put the link in your profile link field. On Instagram that is the Links field, and on TikTok it is the Website field. Anyone who visits your profile on their phone is then one tap away. Our guide to Instagram anonymous messages walks you through it.
- Point a Story at it. Stories are made for phone screens, which matches how people actually send messages. Let your friends know where to find the link.
- Do not make people copy and paste. A long address that has to be copied is awkward on a phone; a link they can tap is easier.
- Share answers in the same format. You can turn a message into a 1080x1920 Story image, which is sized for a phone screen.
- Think about timing, too. Where you share is only part of the picture. Our earlier piece on when to share your anonymous message link covers the rest.
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About these numbers
This article is based on anonymous messages received on our site between 2026-04-30 and 2026-11-02 that carried the coarse sender hint, meaning a country and a device type. The figures come from a database snapshot taken on 2026-11-02 09:03:38 UTC. In total, that was 12,242 messages from 142 countries. The device-mixing figures cover the 439 links that received at least 5 messages. The country list includes only countries whose senders wrote to at least 10 different links.
We did not read any message text, names, regions or IP addresses to put this together. The country and device type come from each sender's connection and can be wrong, for example when someone uses a VPN. The hint never tells a link owner who sent a message. Finally, these are descriptive counts. They show where senders' connections appeared to be, not where links were shared, and they do not explain why people sent their messages.