Channel
@arstechnicafeed
On this record: Growth · Engagement · Posts · Citations · Cite this entry
668subscribers
+9 since we began measuring on 5 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001052386677 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @arstechnicafeed |
| Created | 23 June 2016 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel) |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 20 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 4 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 20 August 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/arstechnicafeed |
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 20 Aug 2026, 18:06 | 668 | +7 |
| 13 Aug 2026, 15:05 | 661 | +2 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 17:18 | 659 | no change |
| 5 Aug 2026, 23:03 | 659 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 3 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 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 6 August 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 20 (3 August 2026 – 6 August 2026) |
| Views total | 1,161 |
| Reactions total | — |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 6 Aug 2026, 17:18 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.
SpaceX claims Starlink Mobile will be better than AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/spacex-claims-starlink-mobile-will-be-better-than-att-t-mobile-and-verizon/ SpaceX won't build large cell towers but plans small base stations across US.
This Atlantic hurricane season is looking like a dud, but there will be a price to pay https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/this-atlantic-hurricane-season-is-looking-like-a-dud-but-there-will-be-a-price-to-pay/ "The models are forecasting something outside the envelope of anything we have ever observed."
Google's AI shake-up: DeepMind's Hassabis steps aside, senior scientists depart https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/googles-ai-shakeup-deepminds-hassabis-steps-aside-senior-scientists-depart/ Google's AI brain drain continues.
Review: Spider-Man: Brand New Day reminds us that superhero movies can be good https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/08/review-spider-man-brand-new-day-reminds-us-that-superhero-movies-can-be-good/ It's as much about grounded characters and well-timed emotional beats as CGI-filled action extravaganzas.
Weeks into explosive diarrhea outbreak, sluggish CDC plans response team https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/08/report-cdc-finally-plans-formal-response-team-for-explosive-diarrhea-outbreak/ Reports of cases began in June, and the national tally is now nearing 23,000.
After jacking up prices, Disney+ and Netflix consider offering free alternatives https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/after-jacking-up-prices-disney-and-netflix-consider-offering-free-alternatives/ Disney is interested in "price-sensitive" streaming customers.
EVgo starts building Tesla Superchargers under license https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/08/evgo-starts-building-tesla-superchargers-under-license/ The V4 Superchargers will show up in the Tesla nav app and have NACS and CCS1 plugs.
D-Wave shows off its new entry in quantum computing race https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/d-wave-on-rails-company-tests-entanglement-on-its-dual-rail-qubits/ Company noted for building quantum annealers now also making gate-based hardware.
Google plans to kill Assistant on your phone on September 4 https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/google-plans-to-kill-assistant-on-your-phone-on-september-4/ Assistant will disappear, leaving only Gemini for voice control in the coming weeks.
SpaceX spooks investors with debut earnings report https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/spacex-spooks-investors-with-debut-earnings-report/ Shares slide in pre-market trading even as group says its quarterly revenues nearly doubled.
Pushing the limits: Infinite Machine's Olto is barely a bicycle https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/08/pushing-the-limits-infinite-machines-olto-is-barely-a-bicycle/ Scooter layout makes pedaling a bad experience. But it does have pedals.
Senators demand crackdown on wildfire "prediction markets" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/senators-demand-crackdown-on-wildfire-prediction-markets/ Fire experts warn such markets could incentivize arson.
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @arstechnicafeed. 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 — 1,219,287 of 1,620,455entries 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.
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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.
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 20 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“ArsTechnica” (@arstechnicafeed), 668 subscribers as measured 20 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/arstechnicafeed.
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.