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Smithsonian

@Smithsonian

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929subscribers

+51 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026

Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.

Register entry

Telegram ID-1001181635868
TypeChannel
Username@Smithsonian
CreatedBetween 1 March 2018 and 31 July 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated.
First recorded6 August 2026
Last confirmed live6 October 2026
Measurements held7
Confirmed unchanged2 times, most recently 6 October 2026
On Telegramt.me/Smithsonian

Topic

Science — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 19 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 75% 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.

Growth

878929903.56 August 2026 — 878 subscribers6 August 2026 — 878 subscribers14 August 2026 — 882 subscribers21 August 2026 — 884 subscribers4 September 2026 — 882 subscribers12 September 2026 — 921 subscribers25 September 2026 — 929 subscribers6 August 202625 September 2026
7 measurements spanning 50 days, net +51. 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 870–937 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded
Measured (UTC)SubscribersChange
25 Sept 2026, 12:55929+8
12 Sept 2026, 22:39921+39
4 Sept 2026, 04:21882-2
21 Aug 2026, 10:47884+2
14 Aug 2026, 21:16882+4
6 Aug 2026, 18:01878no change
6 Aug 2026, 17:59878first reading

Engagement

20 posts held, back to 10 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 page of 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 5 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.

Recent posts

5 Aug 2026, 19:44 UTC29 viewsread 6 August 2026

A New Study Points to Two Origins of Life on Earth by Tracing Early Chemical Reactions in Single-Celled Organisms

5 Aug 2026, 12:44 UTC35 viewsread 6 August 2026

Why Has History Forgotten World War II's Largest Prison Break, Which Claimed the Lives of More Than 200 Japanese POWs?

31 Jul 2026, 22:44 UTC89 viewsread 6 August 2026

Yellowstone Is Among the World's Best Places to See Wild Wolves. Here's the Story of the Animal Called Both 'Public Enemy' and Cultural Icon

30 Jul 2026, 15:44 UTC81 viewsread 6 August 2026

A New Generation of Chefs Reimagines Indonesian Cuisine in the Netherlands to Tell the Stories of Its Origins

30 Jul 2026, 12:44 UTC58 viewsread 6 August 2026

Stanford University's Founding Matriarch Was a Travel-Loving Philanthropist Who Met a Tragic End. A New Exhibition Explores Her Life, Grief and Death by Poison

28 Jul 2026, 21:44 UTC61 viewsread 6 August 2026

A Little-Known Photographer Captured the First Clear Image of a Total Solar Eclipse 175 Years Ago. Today, These Celestial Events Still Reveal the Mysteries of the Sun

28 Jul 2026, 17:44 UTC59 viewsread 6 August 2026

We All Know the Story of the Pompeii Victims Who Died When Mount Vesuvius Erupted 2,000 Years Ago. Archaeologists Are Still Learning About Those Who Made It Out Alive

28 Jul 2026, 13:44 UTC58 viewsread 6 August 2026

This 1863 Massacre Was the Deadliest Slaughter of Native Americans in U.S. History. Now, the Shoshone Are Restoring the Site of the Attack

27 Jul 2026, 18:44 UTC66 viewsread 6 August 2026

Predatory Sharks Grew to Enormous Sizes in Prehistoric Times. These Five Strategies Helped Them Get So Big

27 Jul 2026, 13:44 UTC64 viewsread 6 August 2026

This Ship Sank in the Baltic Sea With Presents Bound for a Romanov Czar. Its Cargo Included Champagne, Luxury Mineral Water and Rare Meteorites

24 Jul 2026, 12:44 UTC87 viewsread 6 August 2026

These Photos of Nashville Will Have You Packing Your Bags for Music City, USA

23 Jul 2026, 12:44 UTC89 viewsread 6 August 2026

Before Cultural and Natural Wonders Earn UNESCO World Heritage Status, They Are Put on a 'Tentative' List. Here Are Five Nominees Worth Visiting Now

Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @Smithsonian. 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 25 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.

“Smithsonian” (@Smithsonian), 929 subscribers as measured 25 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/Smithsonian.

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.