{
 "meta": {
  "dataset": "Subscriber history — @EconomistSign",
  "channel": "https://tgregister.com/channel/EconomistSign",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-08-17T07:06:38.691Z",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0 — attribute to tgregister.com",
  "n_readings": 10,
  "window": {
   "from": "2026-08-06T22:01:58.761Z",
   "to": "2026-08-15T17:55:14.846Z"
  },
  "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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   "ts": "2026-08-06T22:01:58.761Z",
   "subscribers": 100610,
   "source": 3
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-07T04:31:22.448Z",
   "subscribers": 100610,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-08T04:11:02.040Z",
   "subscribers": 100601,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-09T03:52:59.241Z",
   "subscribers": 100586,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-10T00:30:24.208Z",
   "subscribers": 100573,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-11T01:33:50.265Z",
   "subscribers": 100549,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-12T01:42:35.542Z",
   "subscribers": 100524,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-12T22:42:55.525Z",
   "subscribers": 100515,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-14T04:48:21.236Z",
   "subscribers": 100507,
   "source": 4
  },
  {
   "ts": "2026-08-15T17:55:14.846Z",
   "subscribers": 100494,
   "source": 4
  }
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}
