A 44-year-old Norwegian tourist who spent over three years surviving on the streets of Thailand is finally heading home after a 1,179-day visa overstay. Odd Stian Hesseberg was taken in by Immigration officers in Nonthaburi after locals spotted him searching through trash for food and sleeping at temple pavilions. Hesseberg revealed he originally entered Thailand in March 2023, but became hopelessly stranded after …

Channel
PATTAYAGUIDE.THAILAND
@PATTAYAGUIDETHAILAND
On this record: Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Reactions · Posts · Citations · Cite this entry
8subscribers
+1 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 | -1003839055074 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @PATTAYAGUIDETHAILAND |
| Created | Between 1 February 2026 and 29 July 2026— estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 12 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 24 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 3 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 2 times, most recently 24 August 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/PATTAYAGUIDETHAILAND |
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 16 Aug 2026, 05:28 | 8 | +1 |
| 12 Aug 2026, 18:48 | 7 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 22:47 | 7 | first reading |
Engagement
19 posts held, back to 29 July 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
- 527.3%
- avg views ÷ 8 subscribers
- Avg views / post
- 42.2
- 11 posts measured
- Reaction rate
- 23.8%
- reactions ÷ views · ER floor
- Posts in window
- 11
- of 19 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 2 of 11 measured posts that carry a reaction reading, and over those same posts' views.
| Window | Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 10 August 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 19 (29 July 2026 – 10 August 2026) |
| Views total | 464 |
| Reactions total | 5 |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 12 Aug 2026, 18:48 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
- Video runtime
- 3m 34s
- Average length
- 1m 47s
Measured directly from 2 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
5 reactions across 2 posts, in 1 kind.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 5 | 100.0% |
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 2 of the 19 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 5reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 19 most recent posts we hold, published 29 July 2026 to 10 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
Pattaya authorities are clamping wheels and issuing fines along Beach Road as part of an ongoing push for coastal order. Municipal officers and police are actively patrolling the seafront, targeting drivers parked on red-and-white curbs with strict enforcement. The operation also targets local businesses and vendors illegally blocking or renting out public parking spots for private profit. With parking space extre…
An Israeli tourist has been arrested on Koh Samui after threatening a local business owner and forcing them to close their shop. The arrest came after video footage went viral on social media, showing the suspect intimidating the shopkeeper with physical harm. Police located and detained the man on August 5th before initially setting up a "reconciliation meeting" between him and the victim. Following public backla…
A Thai landowner just sacrificed a multi-million dollar high-rise to save this centuries-old tree. Instead of clearing the land for maximum profit, the owner of this prime plot — located just 200m from Central Pattaya Beach — is dedicating 50% of the ultra-valuable property to a bio-diverse sanctuary. The sacred Yang tree is so massive its canopy reaches as high as a 15-story building, and it stood on this coast lo…
A 30-year-old passenger has been sentenced to 3 years in a Thai prison after assaulting a sleeping woman on a Dubai-to-Bangkok flight. Pakistani national Raza Ali was arrested at Don Mueang Airport after 33-year-old victim Beaut Pimpaporn woke up from sleeping pills to find biological stains on her leggings beneath her blanket. When confronted by FlyDubai crew who documented the evidence on the spot, the suspect br…
At least 8 people have been killed and 22 injured after a 14-year-old student opened fire at a school near Bangkok, Thailand. The tragedy unfolded on August 7th at Thepsirin Nonthaburi School. Police revealed the teenager fatally shot his grandparents at home before heading to campus, where he opened fire on teachers and classmates before taking his own life. Emergency teams rushed to evacuate the campus as police …
Hundreds of runners gathered in Pattaya on August 2nd for the 4th annual Pattaya Trail 2026. The event took off at the Blue Activity Ground near Bali Hai Pier, featuring 5km and 10km routes for both local and international participants. Organized by Pattaya City and the Pattaya Running Association, the race aims to promote sports tourism and strengthen the city's status as an international "Sports City." @pattayag…
Meet the 22-year-old Russian interpreter volunteering in the tragic Chon Buri investigation. While police investigate the deaths of two Russian siblings and three Thai family members, law graduate Varvara Davydova has stepped up to bridge the gap between grieving relatives and Thai officers. Having lived in Thailand since age 8, Varvara took her first interpreting job at just 15 and earned a first-class honours law…
Secret late-night temple parties uncovered in Chiang Mai. Buddhist authorities have issued a stern warning after photos and chat logs exposed monks throwing private parties inside temple quarters. The scandal breaks right at the start of Khao Phansa — the sacred 3-month "Buddhist Lent" meant for strict meditation and spiritual practice. Leaked Line chats revealed refrigerators packed with beer, invited entertainme…
5 bodies found in Pattaya. What started as a search for two missing Russian teenagers has uncovered a horrific serial murder case in Thailand. Russian siblings Diana Nazimova (22) and Roman (17) were found shot and beaten to death in a forested area of Huai Yai after vanishing on July 26. Police intercepted two suspects, "Pong" (43) and "Thong" (39), as they tried to flee across the Cambodian border. During inter…
❤2
Chiang Mai just took 3rd place on the list of the World’s Best Cities. In the 2026 Travel + Leisure survey, over 207,000 travelers ranked the northern Thai city ahead of global icons like Tokyo, New York, and Paris. Famous for its 700-year-old temples, night markets, and mountain coffee culture, Chiang Mai scored an impressive 91.88, finishing just behind Kyoto and San Miguel de Allende. @pattayaguidethailand #Ch…
❤3
A tragic end to the search in Pattaya. Missing Russian siblings Diana Nazimova (22) and her brother Roman (17) have been found murdered after vanishing earlier this week. Thai police intercepted two suspects, "Pong" and "Thong," armed and trying to escape across the Cambodian border. Under interrogation, the men confessed they ambushed the teenagers to steal their Honda motorcycle. When Roman fought back, he was sh…
Showing the 12 most recent of 19 posts we hold for @PATTAYAGUIDETHAILAND. 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 — 420,157 of 1,627,068entries 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.
Forward network
Republished by
Channels on the register that have forwarded this channel's posts into their own feed.
Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.
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 16 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“PATTAYAGUIDE.THAILAND” (@PATTAYAGUIDETHAILAND), 8 subscribers as measured 16 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/PATTAYAGUIDETHAILAND.
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.