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The Western Journal

@WesternJournal

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52,274subscribers

-215 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026

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

Register entry

Telegram ID-1001462978404
TypeChannel
Username@WesternJournal
Created2 March 2021measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel)
First recorded6 August 2026
Last confirmed live13 August 2026
Measurements held8
Confirmed unchanged1 time, most recently 13 August 2026
On Telegramt.me/WesternJournal

Growth

52,27452,48952,381.56 August 2026 — 52,489 subscribers7 August 2026 — 52,467 subscribers8 August 2026 — 52,410 subscribers8 August 2026 — 52,390 subscribers10 August 2026 — 52,364 subscribers10 August 2026 — 52,305 subscribers11 August 2026 — 52,287 subscribers13 August 2026 — 52,274 subscribers6 August 202613 August 2026
8 measurements spanning 7 days, net -215. 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 52,242–52,521 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded
Measured (UTC)SubscribersChange
13 Aug 2026, 00:2452,274-13
11 Aug 2026, 23:1652,287-18
10 Aug 2026, 22:4352,305-59
10 Aug 2026, 00:4452,364-26
8 Aug 2026, 23:5152,390-20
8 Aug 2026, 03:1752,410-57
7 Aug 2026, 01:2652,467-22
6 Aug 2026, 09:5152,489first reading

Engagement

157 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 17 pagesof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.

ERR · 30 days
2.44%
avg views ÷ 52,274 subscribers
Avg views / post
1,270
157 posts measured
Reaction rate
5.60%
reactions ÷ views · ER floor
Posts in window
157
of 157 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 156 of 157 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 held157 (5 August 202612 August 2026)
Views total199,912
Reactions total11,189
Forwards / commentsnot exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken12 Aug 2026, 19:39 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
21m 19s
Average length
58s

Measured directly from 22 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

11,189 reactions across 156 posts, in 34 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 16.9% of them.

Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
ReactionCountShareShare, drawn
👍1,88916.9%
💯1,45313.0%
🙏1,38412.4%
8998.03%
🖕6946.20%
👏6786.06%
🤬6175.51%
👎5284.72%
💩4724.22%
😈4433.96%
🤡3673.28%
🤮3433.07%
😁3042.72%
🔥2472.21%
🤣1211.08%
🤯1060.947%
🥱1060.947%
🤔970.867%
🥴840.751%
😢820.733%
14 further kinds2752.46%

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 156 of the 157 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 11,189reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.

Measured over the 157 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, 19:37 UTC1 viewsread 12 August 2026
Video

The Justice Department says 11 people have been charged in a decade-long scheme that arranged more than 1,000 sham marriages to help Chinese nationals fraudulently obtain U.S. green cards.

12 Aug 2026, 19:30 UTC87 views9 reactionsread 12 August 2026

A former executive of the leftist Southern Poverty Law Center has been charged with sending payments to participants in white supremacist groups. https://w-j.co/s/09a63

👏7🐳1🤷‍♂1

12 Aug 2026, 19:09 UTC277 views16 reactionsread 12 August 2026
Video

Leftists Melt Down as ESPN's Biggest Star Hangs Out With Trump to Promote High School Athletes.Tap the link to get the full story: https://w-j.co/s/fd5eb

👍15😴1

12 Aug 2026, 18:50 UTC359 views3 reactionsread 12 August 2026

Cooperation between Russia and China “is putting the United States and its most important allies and partners at risk,” according to a retired Naval leader. https://w-j.co/s/42dae

🤬3

12 Aug 2026, 18:42 UTC385 views26 reactionsread 12 August 2026
Video

Milwaukee election officials say 5 of 9 memory drives delivered on election night contained audit logs instead of actual results, blaming human error. The mix-up delayed Wisconsin's governor primary count until just after 1 a.m.

🤯23🥱2🤬1

12 Aug 2026, 18:35 UTC425 views32 reactionsread 12 August 2026

Do you think fraud was involved in the missing results? https://w-j.co/s/6179a

👍17💯9😴6

12 Aug 2026, 17:25 UTC678 views20 reactionsread 12 August 2026

Young people who are simply sharing what their math looks like are being written off as avocado-toast-eating, latte-sipping bums. https://w-j.co/s/c79fc

🥱14😁3🙏21

12 Aug 2026, 16:54 UTC744 views30 reactionsread 12 August 2026
Video

Asked about conspiracy theories, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said it's not really one, but pointed to unidentified objects over U.S. military installations and said they're not ours.

🔥21🙏7🤡2

12 Aug 2026, 16:14 UTC826 views50 reactionsread 12 August 2026
Video

Trump says the Secret Service changed his flight over a possible threat: "I go by Secret Service and the military. Equal safety, but they wanted me to do it, so I do it."

👍28🙏15💯5🤡2

12 Aug 2026, 15:05 UTC980 views60 reactionsread 12 August 2026

ESPN’s Pat McAfee has already begun responding to the critics. https://w-j.co/s/57406

👍488🤡3🙏1

12 Aug 2026, 15:00 UTC953 views61 reactionsread 12 August 2026

Are you concerned that a potential member of the Senate is hanging around with someone like Hasan Piker? https://w-j.co/s/e75c1

🤯20🙏14🖕10💯7🤬5🤡2😁2😈1

12 Aug 2026, 14:55 UTC909 views83 reactionsread 12 August 2026
Video

Hillary Clinton compared the White House to Saddam Hussein's palaces, recalling meetings she had in Baghdad and calling the similarities "insane."

💩48🖕19🤪9🤮3🙏2🔥1🥱1

Showing the 12 most recent of 157 posts we hold for @WesternJournal. 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 — 688,149 of 1,151,006entries 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

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.

Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels

The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.

James O'Keefe
@JamesOKeefeIII · 171,140
Telegram ranks this channel #4 of 88 here — alongside 87 others — read 12 August 2026
Charlie Kirk
@CharlieKirk · 156,047
Telegram ranks this channel #44 of 85 here — alongside 84 others — read 12 August 2026
Donald Trump Jr
@TrumpJr · 366,891
Telegram ranks this channel #51 of 79 here — alongside 78 others — read 10 August 2026
Donald J. Trump
@real_donaldjtrump · 605,821
Telegram ranks this channel #51 of 80 here — alongside 79 others — read 10 August 2026
One America News Network
@OANNTV · 148,331
Telegram ranks this channel #57 of 87 here — alongside 86 others — read 12 August 2026
Project Veritas
@project_veritas · 211,802
Telegram ranks this channel #67 of 87 here — alongside 86 others — read 11 August 2026
General Flynn ️
@RealGenFlynn · 152,630
Telegram ranks this channel #69 of 80 here — alongside 79 others — read 12 August 2026

This channel appears in 7 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.

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

“The Western Journal” (@WesternJournal), 52,274 subscribers as measured 13 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/WesternJournal.

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.