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@dotconnectinganons
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28,820subscribers
-96 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 10,000–31,623.
| Telegram ID | -1001758820844 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @dotconnectinganons |
| Description | News articles and SM posts from around the web are posted here to help anons connect dots. https://buymeacoffee.com/dotconnectinganons |
| Created | 15 July 2022 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel) |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 12 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 9 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 12 August 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/dotconnectinganons |
This channel’s posts match, word for word or near enough, posts on 1 other registered channel, found by comparing text fingerprints across every channel on the register. That matching has been checked by hand against the live Telegram pages and found reliable — 0 wrong of 45 pairs re-read.
Which channel, if either, published first is deliberately not shown. The same hand-check found that reading wrong 18 of 45 times — 60%, no better than a coin flip — because it depends on how deep our own crawl happened to reach into each channel’s history, not on when the content was actually first posted. This list is ordered by subscriber count, the same as every other listing on this site, never by which channel we think came first. Word-for-word matching has several ordinary explanations besides copying — a channel mirroring itself, an unattributed repost, or two channels independently repeating the same wire story — and this measurement cannot tell those apart. How this is measured.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Aug 2026, 18:44 | 28,820 | -17 |
| 11 Aug 2026, 22:02 | 28,837 | -5 |
| 10 Aug 2026, 22:42 | 28,842 | -15 |
| 10 Aug 2026, 00:01 | 28,857 | -8 |
| 9 Aug 2026, 02:35 | 28,865 | -13 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 05:05 | 28,878 | -20 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 08:25 | 28,898 | -18 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 10:01 | 28,916 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 09:59 | 28,916 | first reading |
31 posts held, back to 29 July 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 17 pagesof 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 12 August 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 31 (29 July 2026 – 12 August 2026) |
| Views total | 124,120 |
| Reactions total | — |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 12 Aug 2026, 21:48 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.
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 12 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.
Measured directly from 8 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.
☾ From Soul Castle: What the Royal Wren Kens Chapter Thirty-Six Soul Castle, August 12, 2026 I’d had the eclipse in my phone calendar since February—not because I needed reminding, but because putting things in calendars was what you did when you were an editor, and old habits died harder than curses. Callum found the reminder that morning and studied the screen over my shoulder. “Tae the minute,” he said. “6:47…
Signed 𝑀𝑒𝓁𝒾𝓈𝓈𝒶
🏰Today’s partial solar eclipse has a rather extraordinary connection to Soul Castle. While writing Book Two, What the Royal Wren Kens, I set one chapter on August 12, 2026—the day an eclipse passes over the Scottish Highlands. In the story, Rowan knows precisely when it will happen. Callum, born more than three centuries before her, is still getting accustomed to a world that can map the sky to the minute. So, in h…
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NEW🆕❗️: Flock Safety has put 120,000+ cameras across 49 states. One of its biggest investors also backs Toka, a cyber intelligence company that advertises systems access, data exfiltration and covert entry — and whose technology has reportedly been capable of altering camera footage. Same investor. Very different mission. And somehow, that was only the beginning of this story. I followed the thread through Las Ve…
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Every morning in the little harbour of Vueltas, an old fisherman named Toño sits on the stone steps and waits. And every morning, without fail, a stingray glides out of the blue to meet him. They've shared this quiet ritual for years - a wild ray and a man who never stopped showing kindness. It brushes against his legs, circles like an old friend, and lifts its wings as if saying "You're here. I remember you." It's n…
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ICYMI‼️: Hunter Biden tells BBC Newsnight that his father’s prostate cancer has “metastasized into his bones and further,” describing it as painful and debilitating. Joe Biden, 83, was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer in May 2025, which his office said at the time appeared hormone-sensitive and manageable. The former president, Hunter says, is still making public appearances. XPOST | SUBSTACK | …
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JUST IN - Netanyahu rejects a 15-point plan for Gaza by Trump's Board of Peace, says his military will not make "any withdrawal" from Palestinian territory until Hamas fully disarms, and warns as long as he is PM there will be no Palestinian state in Gaza or the West Bank. @disclosetv
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NEW - Kellogg says it's removing artificial dyes from cereals by the end of this year
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The Senate left DC without a budget resolution to include funding for the SAVE America Act.
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Everyday life as a true American 🤔
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Video, posted without a caption
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The Oxferd Comma Memos: The FBI Investigated Trump as a Russian Asset, But Only For One Day. Just days after President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, Acting FBI Director Andy McCabe opened a full investigation into the President. That investigation was titled 'Oxferd Comma,' the misspelling perhaps intentional so as to avoid FOIA searches should the name ever leak. This investigation sought to develop eviden…
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🌿 The roots were asked tae hold a wall. They built a road. Sorcha would like a word wi' whoever decided that counted as help. Chapter Twenty-Four — The Wrong Shore. READ CHAPTER 24: https://open.substack.com/pub/sorchasjournals/p/chapter-twenty-four?r=87kb68&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true XPOST | SUBSTACK | FACEBOOK | TRUTH 🏰If this drew you in, Sorcha’s world is still moving—step into…
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Showing the 12 most recent of 31 posts we hold for @dotconnectinganons. 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 — 71,124 of 1,160,990entries 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.
Republished by
Channels on the register that have forwarded this channel's posts into their own feed.
Republishes
Channels on the register whose posts this channel has forwarded.
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.
Named by 12 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.
Named by
Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
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.
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.
This channel appears in 14 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
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 12 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Dot Connecting Anons” (@dotconnectinganons), 28,820 subscribers as measured 12 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/dotconnectinganons.
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.