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Cyber Detective

@cybdetective

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26,596subscribers

+121 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026

Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 10,000–31,623.

Register entry

Telegram ID-1001597138777
TypeChannel
Username@cybdetective
DescriptionEvery day I write about 0pen Source Intelligence tools and techniques. Also little bit about forensics and cybersecurity in general. Work in https://t.me/netlas
CreatedBetween 1 August 2021 and 31 January 2023— estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated.
First recorded6 August 2026
Last confirmed live14 August 2026
Measurements held9
Confirmed unchanged1 time, most recently 14 August 2026
On Telegramt.me/cybdetective

Growth

26,47526,59626,535.56 August 2026 — 26,475 subscribers7 August 2026 — 26,492 subscribers8 August 2026 — 26,509 subscribers9 August 2026 — 26,528 subscribers10 August 2026 — 26,537 subscribers11 August 2026 — 26,557 subscribers12 August 2026 — 26,574 subscribers13 August 2026 — 26,576 subscribers14 August 2026 — 26,596 subscribers6 August 202614 August 2026
9 measurements spanning 8 days, net +121. 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 26,457–26,614 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded
Measured (UTC)SubscribersChange
14 Aug 2026, 10:1826,596+20
13 Aug 2026, 02:2626,576+2
12 Aug 2026, 02:3426,574+17
11 Aug 2026, 03:0126,557+20
10 Aug 2026, 03:0326,537+9
9 Aug 2026, 00:5226,528+19
8 Aug 2026, 00:5326,509+17
7 Aug 2026, 03:2426,492+17
6 Aug 2026, 03:4926,475first reading

Engagement

30 posts held, back to 18 July 2026the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 20 pagesof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.

ERR · 30 days
13.6%
avg views ÷ 26,596 subscribers
Avg views / post
3,610
30 posts measured
Reaction rate
0.239%
reactions ÷ views · ER floor
Posts in window
30
of 30 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.

What these figures were computed from
WindowRolling 30 days · latest post in window 14 August 2026
Posts held30 (18 July 202614 August 2026)
Views total108,342
Reactions total259
Forwards / commentsnot exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken14 Aug 2026, 15:37 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

Photos
3,140
Videos
4
Links
3,190

Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 14 August 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. A count marked was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints these counters in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈142,000 means somewhere between 141,500 and 142,499.

Reaction mix

224 reactions across 27 posts, in 8 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 71.9% of them.

Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
ReactionCountShareShare, drawn
👍16171.9%
👌2310.3%
👏135.80%
😍135.80%
52.23%
👎41.79%
😱41.79%
🤯10.446%

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 30 of the 30 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 259reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.

Measured over the 30 most recent posts we hold, published 18 July 2026 to 14 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

14 Aug 2026, 07:21 UTC912 views5 reactionsread 14 August 2026
Photo

How to Investigate a Suspect Online: A Live Walkthrough Starting from a single data point - a name, an email address, a phone number, a username - you'll see the full process of building person digital footprint. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEf1xcICsM0 Recording of webinar by Mark Benteley

👍41

13 Aug 2026, 09:19 UTC≈1,540 views6 reactionsread 14 August 2026
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Discord Sensor Search Discord users and servers by ID, link or name. Get statistics, events, nicknames, photos and profile data. https://discord-sensor.com/ #osint #socmint

👌4👍2

13 Aug 2026, 09:03 UTC≈1,510 views6 reactionsread 14 August 2026
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China OSINT Open Data portals Legal Entities Cadastral and other Maps Vehicles People, phones, social etc. Public procurements https://github.com/paulpogoda/OSINT-Tools-China Contributor @pavelbannikov

👍6

11 Aug 2026, 10:11 UTC≈2,180 views5 reactionsread 14 August 2026
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Digga Subdomains search and domain research free online tool. DNS, Whois, Subdomains, Emails and TLS. 2K+ subdomains in 0,7 seconds. https://digga.dev/lookup/nytimes.com #osint #opensource

👍5

10 Aug 2026, 14:25 UTC≈2,490 views9 reactionsread 14 August 2026
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Face Search Engines List of 10 reverse image search engines + Artist Ninja reverse image search. https://www.faceseek.online/blog/best-face-search-engines https://artist.ninja/reverse-image-search/ #osint #socmint

👌6👍3

9 Aug 2026, 14:36 UTC≈2,850 views10 reactionsread 14 August 2026
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Signal & Shadow by Derek Bowler OSINT Guides OSINT Reference Card Library AI in OSINT OSINT Methodology Tutorials The Signal https://signalandshadow.io/ #osint

👍7👌3

9 Aug 2026, 08:21 UTC≈2,770 views10 reactionsread 14 August 2026
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Evidence Preservation and Historical Web Stack Tools collection by osint4all: Wayback Machine Archive today Perma cc Library of Congress Web Archives Common Crawl Hunchly urlscan io Google Fact Check Explorer GDELT Project https://osint4all.com/collection/evidence-preservation-and-historical-web-stack/

👍8👌2

7 Aug 2026, 09:31 UTC≈3,220 views13 reactionsread 14 August 2026
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Deep State 292 submarines across 30+ navies Open-source real-time OSINT interactive map tracking Auto-updated every 6h Web app: https://qmfire18-source.github.io/DEEP-STATE/v4.html Github repo: https://github.com/qmfire18-source/DEEP-STATE #geoint

👍11👌2

7 Aug 2026, 09:23 UTC≈2,770 views1 reactionsread 14 August 2026
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Worldwide OSINT Resources with lists of investigation tools for different countries: OSINT for countries by x.com/wdd_adk https://github.com/wddadk/OSINT-for-countries OSINT for countries v2.0 by t.me/pavelbannikov https://github.com/paulpogoda/OSINT-for-countries-V2.0 OSINT World Series by x.com/UNISHKAResearch https://unishka.com/osint-world-series/

👌1

7 Aug 2026, 09:06 UTC≈2,750 views3 reactionsread 14 August 2026
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OSINT of Jamaica Entry #55 OSINT World Series: Company Registries Land & Property Records Conflict Resources Geospatial Resources and Maps Flight & Vessel Tracking People Search https://substack.com/@unishkaresearchservice/p-209776545

👎3

5 Aug 2026, 18:24 UTC≈3,410 views9 reactionsread 14 August 2026
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DOMAIN/URL OSINT TOOLS Search Engines Website Profiling & Technical Analysis Service Screenshots Website Archives & History SEO, Traffic & Links URL Shortener Expanders AdSense ID Lookup Security & Reputation Whois & DNS Lookup IP & Network Info https://sosintops.github.io/Exploratores/launchme.html

👍7👌2

4 Aug 2026, 09:31 UTC≈3,760 views11 reactionsread 14 August 2026
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Telegram OSINT Tools Search engines, online tools, Telegram bots and Maltego transforms. Social Media OSINT tools hub by OSINTGuide: https://www.osintguide.com/en/tools/category/social-media

👍11

Showing the 12 most recent of 30 posts we hold for @cybdetective. 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 — 52,786 of 1,340,412entries 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 7 registered channels — 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.

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.

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.

The Hacker News
@thehackernews · 162,092
Telegram ranks this channel #17 of 58 here — alongside 57 others — read 13 August 2026
Social Engineering
@Social_engineering · 125,168
Telegram ranks this channel #76 of 82 here — alongside 81 others — read 13 August 2026

This channel appears in 2 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 14 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.

“Cyber Detective” (@cybdetective), 26,596 subscribers as measured 14 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/cybdetective.

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.