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 "meta": {
  "dataset": "Subscriber history — @CageTheElephantBot",
  "channel": "https://tgregister.com/channel/CageTheElephantBot",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-09-10T12:03:24.139Z",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0 — attribute to tgregister.com",
  "n_readings": 19,
  "window": {
   "from": "2026-08-07T18:33:21.326Z",
   "to": "2026-09-08T18:01:58.118Z"
  },
  "columns": {
   "ts": "when this reading was taken, UTC",
   "subscribers": "the count read (or, for source 3, carried over) — see source below",
   "source": {
    "0": "sweep.py — t.me/<name> profile page",
    "1": "promote.py — Bot API getChat",
    "2": "resolve.py — MTProto",
    "3": "spromote.py — t.me/s/<name> post preview (figure carried over from an earlier profile read, not the preview’s own rounded header)",
    "4": "remeasure.py — t.me/<name> profile page, re-read on a schedule"
   }
  },
  "note": "Snapshots are written only when a reading changes: a gap in ts means \"no change observed between readings\", never \"not measured\" and never \"interpolated\". Readings from different sources are separate lineages that do not confirm one another — subtracting across them can attribute a change to a period nothing was actually read in. Full method: https://tgregister.com/methodology#measuring"
 },
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   "source": 0
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-08T17:36:59.797Z",
   "subscribers": 21509,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-10T17:24:35.284Z",
   "subscribers": 20444,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-12T12:44:00.650Z",
   "subscribers": 19182,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-13T15:26:08.366Z",
   "subscribers": 19304,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-15T02:16:02.606Z",
   "subscribers": 18984,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-16T20:57:02.802Z",
   "subscribers": 18984,
   "source": 1
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-17T18:34:36.803Z",
   "subscribers": 17905,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-19T17:05:10.520Z",
   "subscribers": 17715,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-22T00:24:12.564Z",
   "subscribers": 16605,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-23T14:08:01.252Z",
   "subscribers": 16256,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-25T02:23:57.776Z",
   "subscribers": 16128,
   "source": 4
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  {
   "ts": "2026-08-26T04:13:46.816Z",
   "subscribers": 17121,
   "source": 4
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  {
   "ts": "2026-08-28T05:35:11.837Z",
   "subscribers": 19610,
   "source": 4
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  {
   "ts": "2026-08-30T03:34:42.349Z",
   "subscribers": 19923,
   "source": 4
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  {
   "ts": "2026-09-02T08:58:39.990Z",
   "subscribers": 20032,
   "source": 4
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  {
   "ts": "2026-09-03T12:39:39.520Z",
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   "source": 4
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  {
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