Open Source Intel (Twitter/X) The U.S. blockade of Iran has now been in place for a combined 96 days. First blockade: April 13 to June 18, 67 days Blockade lifted: June 18 to July 14, roughly 26 days Current blockade: July 14 to August 11, 29 days Total: 96 days under blockade so far. Eventually it will sting.

Channel
Open source intel
@InsiderGeo
On this record: Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Posts · Citations · Cite this entry
17subscribers
+0 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1002825438514 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @InsiderGeo |
| Created | Between 1 June 2025 and 30 September 2025— estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 11 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 11 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 2 |
| On Telegram | t.me/InsiderGeo |
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 11 Aug 2026, 19:31 | 17 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 08:01 | 17 | first reading |
Engagement
20 posts held, back to 11 August 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.
- ERR · 30 days
- 5.88%
- avg views ÷ 17 subscribers
- Avg views / post
- 1.0
- 20 posts measured
- Reaction rate
- —
- this channel exposes no reaction counts
- Posts in window
- 20
- of 20 held
ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.
ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views— note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate.
| Window | Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 11 August 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 20 (11 August 2026 – 11 August 2026) |
| Views total | 20 |
| Reactions total | — |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 11 Aug 2026, 19:31 UTC |
Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.
Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.
Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.
What this channel posts
- Photos
- ≈11,200
- Videos
- ≈7,020
- Links
- ≈21,600
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 11 August 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. A count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints these counters in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈142,000 means somewhere between 141,500 and 142,499.
- Video runtime
- 25s
- Average length
- 25s
Measured directly from 1 video with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no ≈ mark.
Recent posts
Open Source Intel (Twitter/X) CENTCOM: Earlier today, CENTCOM forces disabled the steering gear of Panama-flagged M/V Vela Nova as the cargo vessel attempted to transit the Gulf of Oman and violate the U.S. blockade against Iran by sailing toward an Iranian port. A U.S. Navy MH-60 helicopter fired two hellfire missiles into the Vela Nova’s engine room after the ship’s civilian crew ignored repeated warnings from A…
Open Source Intel (Twitter/X) Iran FM spokesman: “The Strait of Hormuz has been open since ‘Prophet Adams’ creation until February 28, 2026,”
Open Source Intel (Twitter/X) At a 200,000 acre military testing ground in Grayling, Michigan, defense startups are showcasing new battlefield drone technology, with one company claiming it can 3D print a drone in just 30 minutes.
Open Source Intel (Twitter/X) JPost: Three weeks into the pilot program to disarm Hezbollah, the Lebanese Army is "not doing enough" on the ground. The army has entered the area and uncovered weapons and ammunition caches, but one official said "it is still not enough."
Open Source Intel (Twitter/X) The New York Times claims Iran is adapting its attacks to drain U.S. air defenses, combining drones and maneuvering ballistic missiles while forcing American forces to defend multiple fronts. The NYT also claims that the U.S. has fired more than 1,500 Patriot interceptors during the war, while fewer than 1,700 remain. Dept. of war says no munitions shortage.
Open Source Intel (Twitter/X) Wild footage shows a Russian mobile fire team unsuccessfully trying to intercept a passing kamikaze drone. I wouldn’t want to be a driver behind that crew.
Open Source Intel (Twitter/X) Zelensky: Ukraine gave U.S. negotiators its proposals to end the war with Russia.
Open Source Intel (Twitter/X) Multiple drone attacks, with at least 5 reported since Saturday, have targeted oil facilities in Libya’s Zawiya. State oil firm NOC warned it could declare force majeure if attacks on the city’s energy infrastructure continue. Libya’s NOC is essentially warning that continued drone attacks could force it to suspend oil production or exports without being held liable for failing to deli…
Open Source Intel (Twitter/X) Ukrainian President Zelensky: There was a report from the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine regarding the preparations for Russian mobilization. They are preparing it for the autumn, right after the imitation of parliamentary elections. Putin's plan is not particularly complex: he wants to portray that Russians allegedly support the war. All the parties allowed so far are, in …
Open Source Intel (Twitter/X) Possible launches toward the Strait of Hormuz after explosions in Sirik, southern Iran. - Channel 12
Open Source Intel (Twitter/X) Anyone know what ever happened with this?
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @InsiderGeo. 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
Citation-graph rank — 827,944 of 1,176,251entries 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.
Mentions
Named by 1 registered channel — 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.
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.
Cite this entry
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 11 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Open source intel” (@InsiderGeo), 17 subscribers as measured 11 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/InsiderGeo.
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.