Channel
@BirrAndByte
On this record: Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Reactions · Posts · Citations · Cite this entry
144subscribers
+0 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1003796863289 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @BirrAndByte |
| Description | Birr & Byte delivers short daily threads on business, finance, money, and technology shaping Ethiopia and the global economy. From market trends and major investments to AI, startups, and policy shifts, we break down the stories that matter. |
| Created | 13 March 2026 — measured — dated from the channel’s first post |
| First recorded | 8 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 8 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 2 |
| On Telegram | t.me/BirrAndByte |
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 8 Aug 2026, 21:17 | 144 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 06:03 | 144 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 13 March 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 pageof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 16 March 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 8 August 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. Below Telegram’s rounding threshold, so these counts are exact.
6 reactions across 5 posts, in 4 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 50.0% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 3 | 50.0% | |
| ⚡ | 1 | 16.7% | |
| 👍 | 1 | 16.7% | |
| 🔥 | 1 | 16.7% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 5 of the 20 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 6reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 13 March 2026 to 16 March 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Ethiopia’s Digital Economy Is Growing Fast Ethiopia’s digital ecosystem has expanded rapidly in recent years. Key indicators of growth include: • more than 60 million mobile subscribers • rapid expansion of mobile money services • growth in fintech startups • expanding telecom infrastructure through Ethio Telecom. Big picture Digital services are becoming a major driver of economic growth, with sectors such as: …
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The Companies Dominating the Global AI Boom Artificial intelligence has become the most competitive sector in the tech industry. Some of the companies leading the AI race include: • Nvidia — AI chips and computing infrastructure • Microsoft — AI platforms and cloud computing • Google — AI research and AI services • OpenAI — advanced AI models • Meta Platforms — AI systems and open-source models Big picture AI is…
Top 5 Ethiopian Startups to Watch Ethiopia’s startup ecosystem is still young, but several companies are gaining momentum in fintech, mobility, and digital services. Some startups attracting attention include: • ArifPay — fintech payments infrastructure • Chapa Financial Technologies — online payment gateway • Ride — ride-hailing platform • ZayRide — mobility tech startup • Afriwork — digital freelance marketplace…
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Ranked: Africa’s Largest Fintech Companies Africa’s fintech sector has grown into one of the continent’s most valuable technology industries. Here are some of the largest fintech companies in Africa by valuation and market impact: • Flutterwave — $3B+ valuation • Chipper Cash — $2B+ valuation • OPay — $2B+ valuation • Wave — $1.7B valuation • Paystack — acquired for $200M+ Big picture Fintech is solving one of A…
AI Is Driving a Global Wave of Tech Layoffs More than 45,000 tech layoffs have been recorded globally in early 2026, with many linked to AI adoption and automation. Around 20% of these job cuts are tied directly to AI-driven restructuring, as companies reorganize around new technologies. Big picture AI is reshaping the tech labor market. While companies reduce some roles, they are simultaneously investing heavil…
Global Markets React to Oil Shock and AI Restructuring Global markets are navigating a volatile mix of energy disruption and rapid AI investment. A supply shock in global oil markets combined with tech layoffs tied to AI infrastructure spending is influencing investor sentiment worldwide. Big picture The global economy is entering a new phase where: • AI infrastructure investment • energy market volatility • cor…
Ethiopia Approves New Artificial Intelligence University Ethiopia has approved the creation of Medemer Artificial Intelligence University in Addis Ababa. The new institution will focus on AI, advanced computing, and digital technology research. Big picture The university is part of Ethiopia’s broader digital transformation agenda, which aims to expand: • artificial intelligence research • digital infrastructure …
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Bank of Abyssinia and Visa Expand Digital Payments in Ethiopia Bank of Abyssinia has expanded its partnership with Visa to accelerate digital payment adoption in Ethiopia. The agreement aims to roll out more secure and seamless digital payment services, expanding Visa’s financial products within the Ethiopian banking ecosystem. Big picture Digital payments are becoming a core part of Ethiopia’s financial transfor…
Habtamu Tadesse: Building Ethiopia’s Fintech Infrastructure Habtamu Tadesse is the founder of ArifPay, one of Ethiopia’s pioneering fintech companies. ArifPay provides mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) and digital payment systems that allow businesses to accept electronic payments through smartphones and POS devices. Before launching ArifPay, he also founded ride-hailing platform ZayRide, helping digitize the taxi indus…
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Ethiopian Startups Enter Global Innovation Programs Twelve Ethiopian startups have been selected among the top 40 companies in a major African innovation program backed by the $1B Timbuktoo initiative. The startups were chosen from 640 applications across 52 countries. Big picture Ethiopian startups are increasingly gaining international visibility. Many of them are building solutions in: • manufacturing techno…
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Ethiopia Signs Potash Mining Agreement to Unlock Mineral Resources Ethiopian Investment Holdings has signed a potash mining agreement with the Ministry of Mines to develop Ethiopia’s mineral resources. The deal aims to accelerate exploration and commercialization of strategic minerals. Big picture Potash is a key ingredient used in fertilizer production, making it an important resource for global agriculture. De…
AI Startup Raises $1 Billion in One of the Largest Seed Rounds Ever AI research startup AMI Labs has raised $1.03 billion in a seed funding round, one of the largest early-stage investments in startup history. The company is building “world-model” AI systems designed to understand physical environments and support industries like robotics, manufacturing, and aerospace. Big picture Investors are betting that the n…
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @BirrAndByte. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Citation-graph rank — 628,545 of 1,160,990entries in the measured graph. A weighted position computed from the forward and mention edges below — republished posts weigh more than named mentions — and recomputed periodically, over the whole graph. Published only as this ordinal position, never as a score: a position is a fact, and a score printed beside one channel’s name would read as a verdict this register does not make. The two counts beneath stay separate for the same reason mentions are never summed with forwards anywhere else on this page — a named-by count costs nothing to manufacture. The top 100 by this measure, or how it is computed.
Named by 11 registered channels — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.
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Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 8 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Birr & Byte” (@BirrAndByte), 144 subscribers as measured 8 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/BirrAndByte.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.