Channel

Ben Norton - independent news

@benjaminnorton

On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Cite this entry

2,539subscribers

-31 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026

Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 1,000–3,162.

Register entry

Telegram ID	-1001353914108
Type	Channel
Username	@benjaminnorton
Created	1 February 2020 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel)
First recorded	15 September 2026
Last confirmed live	3 November 2026
Measurements held	23
Confirmed unchanged	1 time, most recently 3 November 2026
On Telegram	t.me/benjaminnorton

Topic

International news — 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 15 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 72% 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 the other topics.

Growth

23 measurements spanning 89 days, net -31. 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 2,533–2,585 and does not start at zero.

Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded, most recent 20 of 23
Measured (UTC)	Subscribers	Change
3 Nov 2026, 11:31	2,539	-1
31 Oct 2026, 19:50	2,540	-2
28 Oct 2026, 11:45	2,542	-3
25 Oct 2026, 15:46	2,545	-4
22 Oct 2026, 21:05	2,549	-4
19 Oct 2026, 13:36	2,553	-7
16 Oct 2026, 13:28	2,560	+2
13 Oct 2026, 05:46	2,558	-21
6 Oct 2026, 13:16	2,579	+5
29 Sept 2026, 09:18	2,574	+4
19 Sept 2026, 05:37	2,570	+1
15 Sept 2026, 00:31	2,569	no change
14 Sept 2026, 13:01	2,569	+2
10 Sept 2026, 23:36	2,567	-3
5 Sept 2026, 13:36	2,570	-2
1 Sept 2026, 23:55	2,572	+2
30 Aug 2026, 08:08	2,570	-3
26 Aug 2026, 22:33	2,573	+3
23 Aug 2026, 22:29	2,570	-2
16 Aug 2026, 20:43	2,572	first reading

Engagement

Posts not read yet. This entry is on the register from its profile alone; the post reader has not reached it. Engagement figures appear here once posts have actually been measured — we do not publish a rate before we have the readings behind it.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 3 November 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.

“Ben Norton - independent news” (@benjaminnorton), 2,539 subscribers as measured 3 November 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/benjaminnorton.

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.