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NAIROBI GOSSIP CLUB

@Nairobby

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38,301subscribers

-46 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026

Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 31,623–100,000.

Register entry

Telegram ID-1002007928226
TypeChannel
Username@Nairobby
DescriptionYour number one source of Kenyan Entertainment News, Celebrity Leaks, Music & Drama. Buy ads: @Cutthroat77
CreatedBetween 1 November 2023 and 30 April 2024— estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated.
First recorded7 August 2026
Last confirmed live12 August 2026
Measurements held6
Confirmed unchanged1 time, most recently 12 August 2026
On Telegramt.me/Nairobby

Topic

Memes & entertainment — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-UD-Q6_K_XL, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 10 August 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 99% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.

Observations

These are measurements, not verdicts. Each one below states something we counted, alongside the evidence it was counted from, so you can check it rather than take it. None of them is graded: every observation this register holds is recorded at severity 0, because the precision of the detectors behind them has not been measured yet, and a rating we cannot support is worse than none. Read each as a fact about the data, not as a judgement about the channel. How we measure.

Content that also appears on other registered channels

Posts published here appear word for word on 1 other registered channel. The matching is on the text itself, not on Telegram’s forward marker, so it finds a copy whether or not it was labelled as one.

Matching posts — open both and compare (5 of the pairs behind the counts below)
Posted firstThenOverlapGap
@Nairobitrendsnews/452095 Aug 2026, 11:34 UTC@Nairobby/11903 · this entry5 Aug 2026, 12:10 UTC1.0037 minutes
@Nairobitrendsnews/452126 Aug 2026, 05:32 UTC@Nairobby/11912 · this entry7 Aug 2026, 07:06 UTC1.0026 hours
@Nairobitrendsnews/452156 Aug 2026, 09:51 UTC@Nairobby/11915 · this entry7 Aug 2026, 07:06 UTC1.0021 hours
@Nairobitrendsnews/452166 Aug 2026, 12:13 UTC@Nairobby/11916 · this entry7 Aug 2026, 07:06 UTC1.0019 hours
@Nairobitrendsnews/452186 Aug 2026, 16:09 UTC@Nairobby/11917 · this entry7 Aug 2026, 07:06 UTC1.0015 hours
Every channel this entry shares post bodies with
ChannelMatching postsText overlapTypical gapPublished first
@Nairobitrendsnews5 (5/5 hand-verifiable sample passed)1.0019 hours@Nairobitrendsnews (50)

Text overlap is the Jaccard coefficient over the set of distinct three-word phrases in the two bodies: 1.00 is identical wording, and the threshold for counting a pair at all is 0.70. Candidates are generated by simhash LSH (4 x 16-bit bands, exact Hamming <= 3) verified against the bodies with Jaccard over the SET of distinct 3-word shingles. Published first counts which side of each matching pair carries the earlier timestamp — in this corpus, which is the limitation directly below.

What this cannot establish

MEASURED, DOMINANT ERROR SOURCE: a post ingested before 2026-08-06 may have carried a forward header that was not recorded. A 45-pair hand-check against live t.me pages found 14 (31%) where the live page shows a forward header naming the other channel and the database has none, plus 4 more (9%) naming a third party. The text match itself was wrong 0 times out of 45. Read attribution_capture.items_in_trusted_window before treating the unattributed count as a claim.

Telegram lets a channel forward a post with a header naming the source, and we only began reliably recording that header on 2026-08-06. 4 of the 5 matches recorded here fall after that date and carried no header when we read them. The rest predate reliable capture and are not evidence either way.

“Published first” means first in this corpus. We hold 11 comparable posts for this entry, running 5 August 2026 to 7 August 2026. A channel we have read one page deep will look younger than a neighbour we have read in full, and the order would flip with no change in the underlying facts.

The detector’s own notes on this observation, as it recorded them. Names in this_style are fields of the underlying evidence record, which the plain-English paragraphs above read out for this entry.

  • Verbatim republication has three causes and the text separates only two: a clone/mirror, unattributed copy-paste, or BOTH channels copying a common third source that neither attributes. The spread filter (content held by at most 8 channels) reduces the third and does not remove it.
  • 'Earliest' means earliest IN THIS CORPUS. A channel ingested one page deep will look younger than a neighbour ingested in full; corpus_coverage above is there to be checked before the direction is believed.
  • shared_verified_est extrapolates the sampled pass rate over the full narrow match count; sampled/passed are the numbers actually measured.
  • Absence of a forward header is not proof of intent: Telegram lets a channel disable forward attribution, and a credit written in the body is not parsed as attribution here (mention_edge_either_way above is the closest available signal).

Across the whole group of 2, the earliest publisher we hold is @Nairobitrendsnews. That is a statement about our reading window, not a claim of authorship.

Recorded under the key clone_copy, last confirmed 7 August 2026. An observation that a later pass no longer finds is cleared, and a cleared observation is removed from this page rather than being shown struck through — we do not keep publishing a claim we have withdrawn. Dispute an observation.

Also posting the same content

This channel’s posts match, word for word or near enough, posts on 1 other registered channel, found by comparing text fingerprints across every channel on the register. That matching has been checked by hand against the live Telegram pages and found reliable — 0 wrong of 45 pairs re-read.

Which channel, if either, published first is deliberately not shown. The same hand-check found that reading wrong 18 of 45 times — 60%, no better than a coin flip — because it depends on how deep our own crawl happened to reach into each channel’s history, not on when the content was actually first posted. This list is ordered by subscriber count, the same as every other listing on this site, never by which channel we think came first. Word-for-word matching has several ordinary explanations besides copying — a channel mirroring itself, an unattributed repost, or two channels independently repeating the same wire story — and this measurement cannot tell those apart. How this is measured.

Growth

38,30138,35138,3267 August 2026 — 38,347 subscribers8 August 2026 — 38,351 subscribers9 August 2026 — 38,332 subscribers10 August 2026 — 38,326 subscribers11 August 2026 — 38,321 subscribers12 August 2026 — 38,301 subscribers7 August 202612 August 2026
6 measurements spanning 5 days, net -46. Dots are measurements; the straight line between them is drawn to join them, not to claim we know the path taken in between — snapshots are recorded only when a count changes, so gaps mean “no change observed”, never “interpolated”. The vertical axis spans 38,294–38,359 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded
Measured (UTC)SubscribersChange
12 Aug 2026, 15:0338,301-20
11 Aug 2026, 13:1538,321-5
10 Aug 2026, 12:4838,326-6
9 Aug 2026, 15:1638,332-19
8 Aug 2026, 11:5538,351+4
7 Aug 2026, 19:3238,347first reading

Engagement

38 posts held, back to 5 August 2026the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 16 pagesof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.

ERR · 30 days
6.61%
avg views ÷ 38,301 subscribers
Avg views / post
2,530
37 posts measured
Reaction rate
0.091%
reactions ÷ views · ER floor
Posts in window
38
of 38 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. It is computed over the 28 of 37 measured posts that carry a reaction reading, and over those same posts' views.

What these figures were computed from
WindowRolling 30 days · latest post in window 12 August 2026
Posts held38 (5 August 202612 August 2026)
Views total93,638
Reactions total66
Forwards / commentsnot exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken12 Aug 2026, 20:40 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
5,330
Videos
4,250
Links
180

Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 12 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
10m 16s
Average length
51s

Measured directly from 12 videos 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.

Reaction mix

66 reactions across 26 posts, in 2 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 98.5% of them.

Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
ReactionCountShareShare, drawn
6598.5%
🔥11.52%

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 28 of the 38 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 66reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.

Measured over the 38 most recent posts we hold, published 5 August 2026 to 12 August 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.

Recent posts

12 Aug 2026, 19:39 UTC228 views1 reactionsread 12 August 2026
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Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja Says City’s New Chapati Making Machine Is Now Operational, Producing Up To 5,000 Chapatis Per Hour

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11 Aug 2026, 16:57 UTC≈2,090 views1 reactionsread 12 August 2026
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Trisha Khalid has welcomed her fiancé Woods back to Kenya after spending time apart. Woods, who is usually based in the U.S., was surprised with a romantic room setup featuring balloons, photos of their memories and other decorations.

1

11 Aug 2026, 09:04 UTC≈2,400 views3 reactionsread 12 August 2026
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Kenya Has Officially Submitted A Bid To Host The 2029 World Athletics Championships In Nairobi, Competing Against London, Rome, And Munich. Follow our sports page 𝗞𝗲𝗻𝘆𝗮 𝗚𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗽 𝗖𝗹𝘂𝗯 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀 🇰🇪

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11 Aug 2026, 08:43 UTC≈2,100 viewsread 12 August 2026
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Kenya Has Officially Submitted A Bid To Host The 2029 World Athletics Championships In Nairobi, Competing Against London, Rome, And Munich. Follow our sports page 𝗞𝗲𝗻𝘆𝗮 𝗚𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗽 𝗖𝗹𝘂𝗯 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀 🇰🇪

11 Aug 2026, 08:23 UTC≈1,980 views1 reactionsread 12 August 2026

YouTube has announced major changes to its Partner Program that will take effect from February 1, 2027, raising the requirements for new creators to earn advertising and YouTube Premium revenue. New applicants will need 1,000 subscribers and either 8,000 qualified public watch hours in the last 12 months or 20 million qualified Shorts views in 90 days. The current thresholds are 4,000 watch hours or 10 million Shorts

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10 Aug 2026, 21:25 UTC≈2,180 views2 reactionsread 12 August 2026
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FOR PAID ADVERTISING Inbox 👇👇 @Cutthroat77

2

9 Aug 2026, 18:01 UTC≈3,430 views7 reactionsread 12 August 2026
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Safaricom has explained changes to its data bundles after customers raised concerns over the removal of some affordable packages, including the one-hour bundle. The company said the review was meant to improve services and support new products such as Pata More, adding: **“We had a review of data bundles and there is ‘Pata More’ data packages on 544# or via 555#. The hourly data plans are available between 11 pm and

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9 Aug 2026, 10:42 UTC≈3,480 views3 reactionsread 12 August 2026
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Akothee has defended Kenya Airways while addressing Vera Sidika’s criticism of the airline. She said she has taken seven KQ flights this year and experienced two delays, which she attributed to bad weather and another aircraft blocking the runway. Akothee added that aircraft are machines that can develop problems and urged passengers to be mindful before blaming the airline for every delay.

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9 Aug 2026, 10:33 UTC≈3,280 views1 reactionsread 12 August 2026
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Larry Madowo Takes Selfie With Charlene Ruto And Her Fiancé During Their Traditional Engagement Ceremony

1

9 Aug 2026, 10:33 UTC≈2,870 views1 reactionsread 12 August 2026
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Bongo Star Rayvanny Attends Charlene Ruto’s Koito With Tanzanian Fiancé Isaya Yunge In Kilgoris

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9 Aug 2026, 09:34 UTC≈2,830 views2 reactionsread 12 August 2026
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Vera Sidika has fired back at Akothee as their Kenya Airways disagreement continues, telling her, “I’m not the one to play with, this is not Nyako.” Vera accused Akothee of coming for her unprovoked after the singer defended KQ and questioned her criticism of the airline. Vera has maintained that her complaints are based on her own travel experiences and that she pays for her own tickets

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9 Aug 2026, 09:33 UTC≈2,600 views4 reactionsread 12 August 2026
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Nadia Mukami and Arrow Bwoy have revealed their son Kiyan’s face as he celebrates his first birthday.

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Showing the 12 most recent of 38 posts we hold for @Nairobby. 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.

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 12 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.

“NAIROBI GOSSIP CLUB” (@Nairobby), 38,301 subscribers as measured 12 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/Nairobby.

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.