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@booksbytes
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566subscribers
+0 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1002151588724 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @booksbytes |
| Description | Bite-sized, no-nonsense tech insights. Summaries of top books a few times a week, mixed with the latest news and tips you actually want to know. Join the journey—one byte at a time. |
| Created | Between 1 May 2024 and 30 September 2024— estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 8 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 8 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 2 |
| On Telegram | t.me/booksbytes |
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 8 Aug 2026, 03:33 | 566 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 20:28 | 566 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 1 October 2025 — 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.
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 24 January 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 8 August 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. Below Telegram’s rounding threshold, so these counts are exact.
23 reactions across 13 posts, in 4 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 47.8% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 11 | 47.8% | |
| 🔥 | 7 | 30.4% | |
| 👍 | 4 | 17.4% | |
| 👏 | 1 | 4.35% |
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 14 of the 20 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 23reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 1 October 2025 to 24 January 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.
This year I took on a project to write a book on how to build a vulnerability scanner from scratch (hands-on). It's in its early stages (wrote the first chapter), and so I’m looking for a small group of early readers who are willing to read carefully and leave honest, critical feedback - especially around clarity, assumptions, and where things feel hand-wavy or confusing. If that sounds like something you’d enjoy, …
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Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @booksbytes. 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.
Names
Channels on the register whose handles appear in this channel's posts.
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.
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 8 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Byte-Sized Tech” (@booksbytes), 566 subscribers as measured 8 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/booksbytes.
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.