Channel
@IVcontest
On this record: Growth · Engagement · Posts · Citations · Cite this entry
8,885subscribers
-8 since we began measuring on 5 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 3,162–10,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001127823452 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @IVcontest |
| Created | 23 May 2017 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (TGDataset) |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 12 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 5 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 12 August 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/IVcontest |
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Aug 2026, 19:15 | 8,885 | -5 |
| 9 Aug 2026, 17:51 | 8,890 | -1 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 22:00 | 8,891 | -2 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 03:00 | 8,893 | no change |
| 5 Aug 2026, 22:18 | 8,893 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 18 June 2017 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 14 pagesof 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 9 May 2019. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
The results of the Second Instant View contest are in. Congratulations to the winners! This year 2,897 participants have submitted 69,366 templates – and the Telegram admins processed 44,427 issues to find the best of the best. Thanks to your work, we are launching Instant View support for 2,976 new websites today. Once this is done, quick and slick Instant View pages will become available for all Telegram users wh…
Please note that May, 3 will be the final day for submitting new templates. We will stop accepting new templates at 00:00 CET on May, 4. The contest will end as soon as we finish processing the remaining issues.
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We’ve clarified and expanded the Checklist based on the issues we’re seeing in the contest so far. Changelog: https://instantview.telegram.org/checklist#feb-6 - Related Articles (6.3.2). Considerably expanded guidelines. Now obligatory to put related links into the new "Related articles" block, provided they are technically identifiable in the source. See the full details: https://instantview.telegram.org/checklist…
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Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @IVcontest. 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 — 673,552 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 3 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.
Named by
Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
Names
Channels on the register whose handles appear in this channel's posts.
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 12 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Instant View Contest News” (@IVcontest), 8,885 subscribers as measured 12 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/IVcontest.
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.